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I'll take the start, so just keep to the left down there.

The BSC will be ending. Let me sink. Thanks, I'll blow. Kick on the bloke. Okay, weaving and flat out to 4, please.

Track is clear now.

Meeting's up. Bye Liam, Pierre Verstappen. Good luck.

OK, mate. Yeah, let's just try and do this first run if we can.

It's time to have some weaving down to 11. Decent brake step, please.

Okay, so shape three, shape three and remember your modifiers.

That's just one car starting laps behind us. Please recharge on single call here.

Hulkenberg car behind just finished a time lap.

Tsunoda starting a time-lap. OK, so he should be OK for a moment. Lawson is just starting a time-lap. How did everything feel?

I really need that body for the weekend. I have to survive six laps in Ascari. Can I come back?

I got Lawson pushing one and a half back.

So Leclerc next car back two seconds. Leclerc one, coming through now. Ocon, he's keeping his pace up for two seconds, coming through now.

Far behind is Hulkenberg on a slow lap.

Franco, how much of an issue is this headrest padding?

Bearman car behind, pushing two seconds. Bearman coming through now. Antonelli, the next car back is two seconds time lap.

Antonelli, a wad back.

It's just like, it's really stiff the back of the handbrake. Bouncing and hitting it really hard. I'm a little disturbed. I think pushing too back is coming through now. Let's just get ready to go again, mate.

Happy with temperatures here, let's try and push again. Hulkenberg doing the same as us.

Okay, mate, so Hulk just finished a time lap. We'll go to double cool here. We'll sort that headrest padding out when we come in as well. Let's drive through the pitlane. We'll stop, sort the headrest padding out. Do you want to flap adjust on that? Let's watch Leclerc pushing turn one.

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Happy to keep steady here. So, looks like we're in sync with the guys behind us at the moment. So, just confirming no flapper just here. We'll sort the headrest padding out.

I get these big snaps in for a world record lap, turn 11. Yeah, we're seeing a bit of an uptick in wind, especially a bit more of a tailwind in turn 8 and 11 than we would be expecting from the wind direction we saw pre-session.

Yeah, it feels pretty good.

Bearman, two, three back, sorry, pushing.

Bearman, one back coming through now. Next car pushing is Antonelli in turn 6.

There's a yellow flag. There's a car off in the gravel. Turn 7 is not moving. This could be going red. Red flag, red flag.

Right, so let's just box this lap. Have a look at the headrest putting Antonelli off at turn 7 exit in the gravel.

No pit stops, so just roll up onto the mark, please. That's called box entry, though.

Also, mate, if you can write it down so we remember, a really sticky throttle, my foot gets stuck. Just feels like it's got some glue or something. On your foot, do you say, mate, sorry? Yeah, right foot, so on the throttle pedal.

So, Franco, the panic was on the headrest there.

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So Leclerc just starting his time lap, got Alonso beginning his now. So standard lap here, we're pushing through turn three. Fernando six and a half back on the time lap. Fernando three back, two back.

Let Fernando go. He's one and a half back. Verstappen is six behind him. Verstappen three and a half back. Time lap. Let Verstappen go. Push through 6-7.

Okay, mate, so stroll, back, time lap. I'm actually a bit messy this one, yeah? What we do is three and a half. Back is stroll, time lap.

QSF weaving down to 11. Tsunoda three and a half back on a time lap.

There's no lift to back on a timed lap. It'd be for a decent stop here.

So can we have 8-3, 8-3 and less push.

Missed a bit of recharge on. Default plan is two boxes lap with a soft tyre here.

Got to be an idiot to have cooled down on the first lap.

I'll come back to you on timing. Let's just watch Leclerc four and a half back. He might be starting a second time lap.

Pushbox. Push hard.

I think, unfortunately, we haven't really got the time to get onto the plan. If we do that, we're going to get behind schedule for the high fuel. Outlap behind.

Let's get on to soft tyre. How did that feel in 8.11? Do you feel a little improvement there?

OK, so Sainz behind on a slow lap here, currently in sync with everybody behind. We're going to just do our standard adjust for the soft tyre.

Let me know if you think you wanted a little bit more.

Control. Control 1. Thanks. The door will adjust.

Standby, standby, standby, standby, standby, standby, standby, standby, standby, standby,

There's a box this lap. One turn up.

That's a shape of six and a standard outlap here, please.

And we can have scenario seven as well. Pierre just finishing a time lap. He's going to come around the box as well.

Just for reference, Pierre's lap time was a 22.2 just then.

Still seeing people running wide at seven. It looks like there's a lot of gravel being dropped over there at the moment.

I say 150 through turn 67, please.

And we'll have weaving down to 8 and to 11. Decent stop at 11 for brake temps.

Kevin, we're just over-slowing the car slightly at 11. That's the main loss to go.

OK mate, so let's keep that weaving. I'm happy to reset shape here as well if you like. Shape 3, remember modify usage. Happy with that.

Let's just watch people starting laps here. So it's clear now, big gap behind. This is going to be a double cool.

So there's a decent improvement found on yourself there, much more than we were expecting with the tyre step. So how was the balance on that one? Would you like a flap adjust?

Am I deploying on the main straight to start off lap? It felt very well. We will check and come back to you on that one.

Slightly understeer sign now, very stable, but all the worst understeer with a lack of run through 6.

Well, I need a little help. Maybe let's, er, I've got Sainz's outlap just coming through, Hulkenberg behind his outlap. We could consider a little flap adjust if you wanted, just a little bit more, er, through those corners.

Half ball one. Not sure I want to go too crazy. OK, go.

Can we have sock three, please? Sock three. Let's just watch Stroll. I think he's just... Yeah, he's on a slow lap there.

Pierre is the next car pushing. He's in turn six at the moment.

So Pierre, five back for a time-lap.

Yeah, 2-1 coming through now, so clear behind. Happy to stop here for half turn up.

Right, so it's going to be quite clear when we leave here. Tsunoda's just halfway down towards 11. Happy to keep this a little bit slower here. Pierre did a 21.3, that's put him in P12. We're currently P18, but it's 21.56.

Shape 6 for this outlap, please.

Noted. So we're clear for the moment. Hamilton is leaving the pits behind us.

So braking turn one is where most of the time loss is coming. He's two and a half tenths faster than us. Hamilton out lap coming through now.

There's quite a lot of gravel in turn 67. Albon 4, back time lap. Albon 3, time lap.

Yeah, 6 was looking quite nice. 7, obviously, is probably where the tyre's dropping. I think not bad for a second lap of this tyre. See, not many laps so far this morning.

There's a mixture of people just finishing their final quarter of push laps here. Most people are boxing now.

Trying to keep you updated here, but we're on our programme now, so remember, start at the end of the pitlane. Box is on the right-hand side. Up against scenario 3, SOC 6. Apologies, mate.

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Right, so toggle recharge down to one here, please. Right, so Tsunoda is pushing. He's about five and a half back. We're in off-man here. Flap stop was three percent deep.

I have understeer at turn 80 and oversteer at turn 90. I have understeer at turn 80 and oversteer at turn 90. I have understeer at turn 80 and oversteer at turn 90. I have understeer at turn 80 and oversteer at turn 90.

10 minutes, there's nearly 30 seconds gap to the next car, so Tsunoda will go. Fernando's on a cool lap and he's about to start a time lap. I think a little bit of Lyko into 1 and 4, these may maybe need to bring some in at 8 as well with that instability. Let's just do those smallers to start and work on your brake application in there. Fernando's going to be starting a time lap, so he'll pull away from us here.

So happy with the lift in coast 6-7, maybe a little bit on the conservative side.

Am I happy with that 6-7 last lap?

OK, can we have mode 7 when you can? Mode 7.

Status, confirm status, please. Confirm status.

A lot of fire, I guess.

Ah, pitless. Pitless off-ramp.

Hey mate, we're happy with lap times there, what you're doing in 6-7 with the Lyco.

Can we recommend to go plus two on the bias here, just help rear slips?

Time is 11.07. I'm tipping out here.

Okay, next lap we go SOC 13, isn't it? Lap SOC 13.

I've noticed a reference P has picked up his pace a little bit. He's 24 at the moment, last lap.

We're happy to reduce the management in 6-7 now. Keep the lifting close but reduce management in 6-7.

I have the management there at 6-7 now.

Yeah, last lap was a 20.45.

We need to focus on a little bit earlier downshifts here, it's costing us some performance.

Come to SOC 10, please, as well. SOC 10. And if we can, let's reduce status, please. Reduce status.

We're going to get a couple more laps here, so if we can, let's reduce the status.

Anything you can do to bring that first downshift a bit earlier is just going to help us with performance here, buddy. OK.

Good last lap there, mate. Thank you.

Can we try dip exit 8? Dip exit 8.

This will be the last lap point for Sainz jumping out in front of us there.

I just refused to see a little bit of balance behind the car.

OK, that's lagging. Let's cool the car. Cool the car. I'm going to go to the grid. Brace start, please.

They're happy with switches for the start.

You can't have the overdriving procedure, please, at turn 45. You can't overdrive at turn 45.

If there is a possibility to make a gap, could we get an aero P3, 6th gear off?

Yeah, copy. Ice gap six and a half to the side, so it's good for us here.

P3, 6 gear.

A reminder for that to go off for the start. So, we're going to be doing two burnouts, please. Normal static 5.0 and a grid start on the right-hand side. Correction, three burnouts, please. Three burnouts.

Copy. Right hand side. Afer. Right hand side.

Right, so as we push into the entry here, please, there'll be a practice pitstop as well.

OK, mate, so we're just going to push you through a little bit. I'm going to have to leave you in the car because Pierre's coming around to do a practice pitstop. We'll get a fan in there for you as well.

It's just really tricky, the rear in this case, with my rear wheel hitting this. Can we talk off air, please? Oh, yeah.

We'll get you back in the garage. Grab a couple of quick comments and we'll hop back into the office for the full debrief.

Thank you for waiting there.

Thanks for the session, it's always important. We got that high fuel running.