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We don't have that on the radar, do we? Particularly here. So we've got Piastri starting a time lap coming into turn one now. There are a few small clouds above us but nothing heavy at the moment. Piastri four back. Some drivers reporting a few spots of rain. Piastri two back time lap. Hey, Norris is the next car on the time lap, just coming through Albon now. So he is three and a half back time lap.

Let's pull up the brake before opening the lap. Norris, two and a half laps, final lap.

Norris 2. DRS on Norris 1. Coming through now. No stress behind. Outlaps behind.

Let's recharge off and let's push.

Right, let's turn recharge on. I'm thinking actually here we should do a cool lap and go again on this medium tyre. This little cell is just sitting above the track but there's nothing until 10 minutes away. The biggest up is 10 minutes behind. So I'd rather stay on track if we can here, please mate.

Yeah, yeah, copy. So we've got Pierre coming through three seconds time lap. He did a ball. Yeah, just two seconds back now. Yeah, one back.

Albon pushing three seconds back.

So, Piastri is pushing. He is currently three seconds back coming through turn seven. There's a couple of cars here. Piastri coming through now. Hulkenberg car, sorry, car behind you is outlap. Hulkenberg outlap. Norris is on a time lap in turn seven.

So, DRS on, good stab on the brakes. Norris, all back for a time lap. He's coming through the traffic now. Norris, one and a half, one, half a second coming through.

Get a good stop into level. We've got Russell pushing. He's currently one second back now. Russell coming through.

So Stroll behind Sainz is pushing. If we can make a little bit of a gap, recharge off and go from here, I think that'd be good. Let's go now.

OK, mate. Celeste, we've got Pierre opening a lap just starting now. We'll let Pierre get through. I think we're going to box and go to the soft tyre.

St-Pierre's just coming through Tsunoda now. He's about two seconds back. Yeah, coming through now at St-Pierre.

How's the balance, mate? Thinking B might adjust for the soft tyre.

So we've got about five or six minutes before this rain is going to get us here.

Albon five seconds back from time-lapse.

OK, Albon, three seconds, five laps.

At a scenario seven when you can, Norris, two and a half that time lap.

It's currently five minutes, but it's turning away from us at the moment, so it's turning out into sea and the intensity is dropping.

So it's gone from yellow on the radar to blues now and it looks like it's turning away from us.

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There should be no queue at the moment. Maybe a couple of cars just hopped out in front of us. First car on the outlap is Verstappen in turn 9.

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Full throttle down to third seven.

180, full stage.

That's DRS off. Decent brake stab into 11. That's a time lap in turn 9 at the moment. Should be clear.

OK, mate. So, let's re-check up and go. Ajar currently stopped on the X.

Hadjar, I'll stop at the edge of turn 8.

BSC, BSC.

Recharge on. Recharge on.

Dammit, so there is ajar stop on the exit of, sorry, entry of turn eight on the left-hand side at the moment, so you're going to get yellow flags from turn seven entry.

It's just going to be on the left-hand side coming up to you now. We're going to stay out if they can recover that car behind the barrier.

Mate, I think that car is not going to clear in time, so let's just keep recharge on.

If that car is going through the barriers now, it could end soon. So if we could just bring some temperatures up as best we can here.

So it's still double yellow here in this section, so respect the flags here, please.

OK, so we're on the brakes. Let's be positive on the brakes. Just waiting for that car to clear.

I've got a bit stuck there. If you want to just manage your pace here just a little bit.

What are they doing? Not sure, but I think it got stuck, so they're just trying to move it.

So the car's behind the barriers. I think we'd need to do a prep lap here. Mate, the tyres are very cool here.

So, yeah, we've got cold tyres, cold brakes here, so I don't think we'd be in a good position to start the lap anyway. Let's just hold position until we can push through turn 78. The VSE is ending. Happy to use this as an outlap here, mate.

Let's take the standard outlap procedure here, so be full throttle once VSC, so track is clear.

DRS is now enabled, so let's go full throttle down to turn seven.

OK, so we have 180 through turn 7, there's DRS down from 10 to 11 and a good stop on the brakes.

OK, mate, so let's go recharge on. We've got the option here of a slow lap and then do another lap on this medium tyre or we could pit stop now to the soft tyre. What do you think with this tyre here?

I'll do one more lap. Lawson, two and a half back. Final lap.

Hamilton two back time lap. Hamilton coming through now. There's a nine second gap to Hulkenberg currently.

Okay, we think just going forwards a little bit on bias will help surface temps in sector two, so let's just go forwards a little bit.

OK mate, so there's a double yellow turn 9. Lewis just bumped it, he's going against the chiclet.

So, turn 90 is clear. Russell behind out lap.

Pierre, six seconds back time lap. That's not in PPA, he's just behind Norris at the moment.

Yeah, he's coming through now.

This should be clear. Retracted behind here so boxes and soft tyre might turn up.

We're happy to push the outlap here.

So we've got Pierre about to open his lap coming through turn 14 now.

Scenario 7, when you can, please. Pierre is in turn 1. Exit now. Starting a time-lapse.

Just let the air go and then pull throttle down to 7, pushing through 7. 180 through 7, please.

That's a good improvement in turn 9. It's just a little bit of a loss in turn 10, just a late entry to mid-corner.

OK, mate, so we've got a double yellow in turn one. Red flag, red flag.

Copy, mate. Yeah, unfortunately Albon off himself, but yeah, it's OK.

We've just got the Aston being pushed down the pitlane currently, so just watch out for him. He's going backwards. Should be clear by the time we get here.

There's currently maybe three cars in front of us.

There's two in front of us, mate. My tyres are minus 50. We're going to need max push here, mate, max push.

Right, so it should be clear for us at that car point. Now everyone else is on outlaps

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Franco, if this doesn't feel ready, we could do a prep lap as well.

So, Lawson six-back time lap. Let me know what you think if you need a prep here. Lawson two-back time lap.

Can't quite see what you can do here.

So we're going to reuse this one for the long run, so let's not abuse too much of the way. Could we have an aero P4, fifth gear off, turn 10 as well, please?

Verstappen, two seconds back on high-fuel pushing.

Turn up the air, pushing on high fuel, five and a half back.

Aerial Pierre on a high fuel behind us. Let's box this lap.

OK, mate, we're up against, we've only got about nine and a half minutes of the session remaining, so we're going to wrap these tyres, fuel and go. Once you're plugged in, we'll just grab a couple of comments, but we'll cut it short if we need to to get the car leading.

That's like status three, particularly turn seven and eight. So once Tsunoda clears around the exit of turn one, there's an 18 second gap to Sainz behind, so we can open the gap a little bit to Tsunoda here. Big gap behind.

That's probably a good five and a half, six seconds, Tsunoda, offset. That could be a good stauncher.

Status 4, please. Status 3, please. Pressure managing turn 7 and 8.

Ace, what's the lap time?

Pierre's last lap was, say, 16.3. Sorry, mate, can we have brake 5, please, shape 5, and we can go plus one on the bias as well.

So, happy with that turn 7 and 8. I'll give you an update on pace in a moment. Happy with that lap time there.

We're happy with this level of management here, Franco.

We'd recommend just going a little bit more forwards with the bias one or two clicks.

Let's change the flag. Let's cool the car. I'm going to go around for a start on the grid.

So, if you can, get yourself into position for an aero cruise. We're taking aero P4. Pit gear on turn 10. One and a half seconds to Verstappen ahead.

Yeah, copy. I'll just turn three reminder after the start as well.

OK mate, so it's been two burnouts. So recharge off, two burnouts, five-point learn and a right-hand side start. Right-hand side.

Come out currently, Pierre's going to do a practice pitstop, so we'll just pull up behind him.

Do you want me to make a gap? Currently 16 second gap, so it should be fine to just pull in behind him.

Can I just pull in behind Pierre, please?

Let's just watch how the guys are clearing Pierre through the box now.

Are you serious? Yeah, yeah, come on, I see you.

No worries, mate. That's why they are handy for everyone. Thanks, mate.

We're just going to stop there.

I'm just going to ask about the entry here and then we'll get you back in the garage.