Luke, if I'm BMX 1 and I use the pull toggle, what does that do to turn 1? Do an extra step of torque.

Confirm my next diff is. As we end this entry mid, put turn 9 protection.

Being ahead of Hulkenberg. Persistent plan A plus three. DRS enabled.

Alex, in mode 10, you've got the overtake you need at the minute. You don't need to press the button. Press stable and we'll drop out.

So slow in the last corner.

Alonso P5 started the management now.

It suggests coming up entry and mid one position.

Suggest a higher mid-speed from 14, we're braking earlier for 14.

Hulkenberg has pitted. I'm going to e-box first.

Stay out, plus three, stay out.

Hulkenberg under investigation for a jump start.

It's back to 314 currently.

It's not about 14, it's just clean air or no clean air.

So it's plan A plus three and purple button on.

Okay, so Hulkenberg was given a five-second time penalty for the jump start. Here's a five-second penalty. Yeah, but that's nothing.

Hopping on to our switch. We're at plan A plus five currently.

Sounds to me like we're just doing what everyone else is doing.

Properly understood. How are the tyres on your side at the moment?

Jumping on the rear.

B-Bal half a second to 6 seconds towards the aero.

Medium is out first, please adjust the headset.

Copy. Do you think you might need a bit more flap for a medium then?

It's hard to tell you to be honest. I think we're OK where we are.

Yeah, it could be that we haven't got range on tools.

OK, next set. Keep pushing, keep pushing.

Axel, mode 9, mode 9. Box, box.

Yeah, we should have boxed opposite.

3-4-3-2-1.

To the hard tyre watch white line.

Everything you need. Thank you for watching.

It's 0.9 back. You can go mode 10, comfortably mode 10.

That is 1.1 behind you at mode 10.

Carlos, two ahead. Hard tyre.

Oh, I don't know why we would put the medium car behind the hard start car.

Alex, go mode 7. We think it's quicker than turn 11, but it will deploy more into turn 11. Remember that. Mode 7.

And then you can use the overtake exit 14 when you need after that.

Suggest being tighter at 8 to open up turn 9.

The soft tyre condition was good after the first stint. My tyres are dead already.

Suggest the right button for 14.

Give me more feedback on the tyres, I'll try and help with tools.

Understeer, low speed, oversteer, high speed. This is opening too harshly. Too early and too aggressively. We can't fix that.

Try at 3.9.

Manage more three and eleven high speed to help the rear.

Try shift change. Green 10, position 6. Green 10, position 6.

Tyres are dying. So limited and so undecimated. Turn 5 is really difficult. So is the last corner on the rear.

Suggest a double push forward between Alex.

So the group of this train is Bearman P9 and that's a group of cars yet to stop. Planning a one-stop.

Keep it back on tight end, please.

We're really limited in sector 2 from surfaces in 5.

Just another front chopper.

Fronts are relatively stable. I dropped to one in the last few laps though.

Mainly the rear.

I need the rear on the high side. If we can help 5, it will help sector 2. Yeah, but help me then.

Just forwards our brake, guys, and manage turn three.

The wind has got gusty. I suggest don't push the entry so much in these gusty conditions. That might help them in.

I'm starting to see a front left drop, so after 15 laps on the medium there was a drop in pace and then it stabilised.

40 run laps to go, purple button on.

Right, double-pull for two. Double-pull for turn two.

I don't know what you guys see, but I am ten times more limited than front limited.

Bearman has pitted from the front of this group.

Just go forwards half a percent on brake, guys.

Hadjar ahead of Pitted. I'm looking for another seven laps or so. Gap to Hulkenberg ahead at three and a half. He has that five second penalty.

There's a bit more of a drop on the front left. I'm happy to lean up more on the front left if you can. Sorry.

Cover, overtake, strobe, exit, strobe, exit.

Alex, reset ignition switch. Reset the ignition switch.

OK, so it's hard tyres plus two. There'll be a little bit of warm-up up to turn five.

Turn mode 9. Watch the white line on exit. Tsunoda three back outlap, three back outlap hard tyre.

Tsunoda 2 back.

OK, 30 to go. Target high 1 minute 20.

Okay, let's go mode 6, mode 6. We'll deploy more at 11, but that quicker.

I don't know how I can do a one-thirty.

I don't even know. I'm not even close.

Twenty-one is okay. Twenty-one, that's okay.

Hulkenberg in the pitlane.

Look this, oversteer, stop oversteer. Check 5, check 12, 13.

Let's go mode 6. We'll deploy more into 11. Mode 6.

We're fine, we're fine. Why do you want that?

This is net quicker. 5-6-7 is net quicker. My tyres don't like it.

My tyres don't want that. OK, copy, fine.

OK, so to help the tyres in, it'll be 9, 10s and 11s, so go mode 10, mode 10 to get mid-pack.

OK, you can expect a blue flag for Norris in the next two to three laps. Front left tyre temp is good and stable. Mainly rear surface overheating is the main limitation.

And go mode 11, mode 11 for top of the pack.

That's blue for Norris. Three seconds behind is Tsunoda.

What's going on in front, please? Oh, no idea.

Bearman is four seconds ahead. He's lapping mid 22s, so you'll be gaining on him fairly quickly. And Hamilton is seven ahead, who pitted.

I'm permitted five laps to go on a medium.

Bearman should be in range fairly quickly.

Strativec stroke. I offset the hardside speed.

Carlos P12.33 laps on the hard tyre. Doing mid 22's. He's 11 ahead.

I don't need to know his pace, I need to know his balance.

We're looking at one hundred.

Can we free up to anything on our side?

He's currently got a bit more low speed understeer.

We are ballroom limited at 12 and 13 with surface temps at the minute.

Gap at 10. Two cars lost now.

I don't really care about the scarf, it's just not the most.

It's mainly a front tyre temp drop for Carlos. That's the limitation at the minute. He's on a 35 lap hard now.

That will put you about at the end of the race for you in terms of tyre age.

So just leaning on the front a lot at the minute. Piastri, Blue Flag, two laps.

Start to focus on maintaining high front temps where we can. Each time we get a blue, I'll start to lose a bit of front, so let's focus on the fronts.

Ocon, two cars ahead. Mid 22s on 38 lap hard tyres.

Turn AP 15. We've got 1.2 on tyres on knock-on. Gasly on the medium ahead, but the tyre now should shift in your favour for the hard.

That's Hulkenberg, 12, making lap for mediums.

Now, one point, one point.

We'll try and help the rears, so just slightly early braking for 1 and 6 to help the exits.

Cleared 1.4 back.

Blue flag alert. Maximum efficiency. George is half a second behind him.

Potentially double there in the gap between George and Hulk is one and a half.

That's over a second behind George De Hulkenberg.

Alex, Carlos has one second in tyres. We're going to swap the cars into turn 1. Stay on the racing line.

Hulkenberg 0.7 behind Karloff.

I need to lean on the front so I can get the temp back.

Go forwards on B5.58.

Nine laps to go, nine to go.

Tsunoda, mid to high, 20 runs behind, 2.4, 7 to go.

Possible level 1 rain in turn 14.

Still got 1.2 on tyres to work on. There's five laps to go. Actually the best is to push and hold out the last corner for a little bit more.

Yes, nice work there. Battery is mid-pack currently. It's good.

Three to go, three to go.

Two to go. Mode 9. Mode 9.

Starting the last lap, Lance Leclerc ahead 2.2, he's P4, it's mid 22s currently.

It's quite difficult out there at times. The hard tyre towards the end of the pace picked up the temperature and managed to get some temp back in it after the blue flags.

HPP off. Switch to go DAP.

Blue 1, position 12. Blue 1, position 12.

Well done, Alex. Tough day today. We've got some really good races coming for us after the August break. We'll sit down and figure out why these tracks were not good enough, but thank you for everything today. Thank you for this first half of the season. Well done.

Yes, thank you, James. Thanks, everyone.

A tough start to the summer break for Sam.

I'm sure we can have good results. We'll figure it out.

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