Just pick the smooth.

P-Bal offset plus one hundred.

I'm above you on Alex.

Be on Alex. Be on Alex. I'll be perfect. Thank you, mate.

Screen in two seconds with engine running. Remember the gap SC2. Remember we need that last gap.

I just got permission to also be ahead of us on a 10-second flow of the whole lap. So focus on this gap and be disciplined. Bleeding 10-11, 12-15.

Okay, I'll let you know if I have.

A few car pushing as well. We're on outlap. Atvar is just at that 12th first car to open. Alex is opening right now.

Make sure you have a gap to Alex. Important. Follow my count down, please.

Leclerc, I see two. Next gap, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. You're clear to Hadjar. Do your lap.

Next time a headfloss on 18 ahead.

Alex, 8, close on 16, and our first car pushing at turn 1. Be disciplined. Leading turn 11. Leading turn 11. Alex, 6 ahead. And leading now at turn 4. Alex, 9 ahead.

DRS unweaving. I'll extend ahead. I've got an eight. I've got eight in behind.

Trocar to open ahead, Alex 9, I am above leading turn 12.

And you are 16 behind, three cars to open, and I get bleeding. 13, I like 7 ahead.

Adler 15 behind. Less tailwind into the high speed section. Less tailwind into the high speed section. Just two cars to open. Adler 14 behind. Alex 8 ahead.

Adj 11. Alex, nice car to open. 18 kph tailwind to turn 11. Alex opening now, gap 9. Adj 10 behind you, good. 10 kph headwind to 13. Nice car to open. Gap is good. And you go push.

OK, good first lap. Gasly opening 9 behind target zero on the dash roping rear to go cool. That's a good lap. Can I see P2? P2.

52.2. Back on flap. Driving from pitlane. Gasly opening 5. Mostly.

Four, three, two, one.

Two. One. With you. Alonso, next car. In 5th, first car pushing. Russell at last corner. Russell, cap 12 feet back on top, please. I'm happy with that.

Country fastest lap, Lawson, 34.6. I have 11 cars completed the lap, you're P2. Russell pushing 7.

It's a p-brake. Brake pressure at 20.0, rear lock and Russell 4 pushing. Russell 4. 20.0 is good for rear lock. Russell 3. Watch out Russell 2. 1. With you. Next corner turn early 10.0, pushing.

Just watch out in front, blocking that 15-a-way. Just keep that 12-a-way. Antonelli pushing 5.

Russell, Antonelli, 3, 2, Verstappen, 34.1, Antonelli, 1 with you. Nice clip behind.

First lap closed. Verstappen, 34.1, Leclerc, 86.

Box, box, box, box. Watch out, white line, pit limiter. Stopping in box.

I think I can leave the P1.

So stop in box, leave the gear running, no flap adjust, stop in box.

OK, you. P7.

I don't need the blankets, I don't need the blankets.

And I'm out. Go for it.

Just make your gap. Gap SC2. Very slow now. Slow now. Slow now. Extremely slow. A lot of bleed now, please. As much as you can now. Cars. Currently I just have Piastri on track. He's slow. Doing a double slow on track. It's on start-finish. Just make sure you have a gap to Alex. And potentially we'll have to watch Piastri, Alex too. So it'll be a gap to Piastri. Make sure you have your gap to Piastri, Alcon Piastri.

Piastri just IC2, Piastri 2.

Four, five, six. I'm going to be ahead of Norris. Norris, just one behind you.

That's just P5. Alex, 16. We bleed in 11. We're on DRS and weaving to 12.

It's bleeding now. It's important because there's a lot of people exiting.

Leading 12. And DRS weaving now. DRS weaving now.

If you think for a time lap one, you want to fit it on.

Same outlap, just no DRS off of 11.

So it will be no DRS out of 11. I will continue on the weaving at the time.

So right now, one minute, there's five cars in the queue. If someone comes, we'll just want to beat them.

That was good on the C gap. Keep doing what you're doing. Blinding as well.

Engines running, 30 seconds.

Okay, behind you is a Piastri, Alec. So remind me the places where I was weak versus Alex and why. So I have a turn at 1.119.50, now I'll compare the details.

Don't push the braking point further and we need to get off brake phase 3.

Looking for big corners. Big.

That's for 1.11 at 50.

And just if you do another brake warming, remember to not shift. Take the brake warming. And I keep doing this gap as you do. OK, where is Alex on it, please, for rotation?

So Alex is mid-eight in turn 11 and 12, mid-eight and 15.

But equivalent to us, is he more close or more open? In pit corner.

So, mid-corner is more closed, mid-corner is more closed.

It's not just Alex sitting in the pitlane, no. Work your gap.

That's a good gap ahead. Alex only has to turn now. Make sure you work the gap. Gap 3, 4, 5, 6.

6, 7, 8, 9, you're good to go. I'll extend ahead on turn 80.

I think I'm about turn 11, leading Alex 12 ahead behind Thierry 16. No DRS. Weaving no DRS. Weaving no DRS. I export in ahead.

Alex Albon at 12.15, 13.16 behind, Alex turn ahead.

Now we want to push 19.20, probably low.

Same win as previous round. Alex 13th and next car to open.

I'm not going to wait until 12.

Check for track limits. Check for track limits.

It's fine. Close the lap.

At 9 okay, close the lap.

You go in, you go in close to your delta.

You're currently P3, so you lost two tenths of a lot in turn 9.

So let's go for 34.9, fixing our position in the track for exit turn 90.

Otherwise that was good. 1.5 tenths quicker. Are we going again or not? Currently I don't think so. It was 1.5 tenths quicker sector 1, 2.5 tenths quicker sector 2 than Alex.

We are focusing on it, will you? Yes.

I have to pick up the pace, work through brakes.

Put your brakes. We'll go again. We'll go again. That's in preparation for SQ3.

ALEC6 ahead. Watch your brakes, turn 90 and 20.

Box, box, watch out, white line, pit limiter. Stop in, box, quality turn around.

We put the fuel to be able to do the time-lapse. Do you want to do it just for learnings? I think in terms of tyre usage we'll be able to do it. Do you want some time-lapse adjustment? Yeah. I'm scared that they will improve.

It's not a lap we'll be seven before.

OK, we need to have quite a hard outlap, a hard outlap. We have a strong opening, strong opening 4, 4-3-2.

You have a good gap of 8 behind Stroll, another lap if you can.

Shot 7, Hadjar. 7, Hadjar.

OK, short manoeuvre. Stay close to Adria. Adria, 4. Adria, 4.

I've got one. Where are you? Near behind.

Okay, so in terms of tyres, we don't think we have any learning. Focus on our car and we're late on the flag, so we'll take the flag. So if you just work on your brakes and box, please work on your brakes and box. So no chance I...

Currently, I think you're safe. You won't have any learning. OK.

OK, but let's take the slack for the hot car. To keep it hot there for later.

You know we delay the hot car. OK, let's focus on that. We'll take the flag and we focus on that, OK? Just if Alex does the same, get the gap. He's clear behind. Alex is doing the same, so get the gap.

And we'll be taking the flat gap. Two, three, four, five. And we're safe. Go push.

Confirming you are safe. You are safe.

Confirm behind. Focus on your brakes on my lap. Oscar, effect 36 and 37. And I'm back on tyre readiness, please.

It was much better this lap. Probably much better this lap. The rear. You're right. So I would say 99 rear before it was 97. Looking at our SQ5, where you are with aerobalance, do you think you want to leave or to go, to leave to protect a bit the stability sector 1? Yeah, I cannot add. 60 is a nightmare.

Turn 9 with a mistake. Turn 11, you lose. The rest of the lap you win.

I'll just fill up and clear out lap. I'll be good on timings.

OK, Alex already exited turn one, so gap will be good. See you on top.

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I'd like to say 10.8, not good.

No DRS enabled, I think.

Wind 7 knots. The tyres look lost. Are you charging it, please?

Yes, yep. Do it again.

Approach 70.

Pitlane, continue to the next stop, over.

Pushing 90, 20 to open.

B2. It's closer. That's how you go in. All the cars leaving the pitlane now in 6 on off-road.

So, Russell just 22 milliseconds quicker than us. We are purple sector 1 and 3. Los Albatros sector 2. I think it's mostly turn 11. There's maybe a chance in 11.

Very solid lap. Thank you. 51 not bad, eh? Yes. I know. To Alex, turn 19.20 has been strong all the way through. That's where you make the biggest difference. Very good job there. Very solid 19.0. I see where it checks out. Watch the delta. Close to the delta. There's no-one pushing behind you all clear.

OK, just be careful about not putting lower pressure.

Overlapped kilometre. East of pit box. Engine off. Remember when the car is back in carriage. Flip. Clear the car. Flip of the car. First thing to go, wait yourself.

Currently, I've come back a third quicker than I was chosen to close the lap. Leclerc is currently slower.

I think we'll be quicker, depending on the last two corners.

Let's come back quicker. Currently you're still on par with Leclerc. Slightly slower.

It's going to be a 1,000th lap, isn't it? I hope it's as good as last year.

Carlos Leclerc behind us. Christian Campea behind us. Three times through really quick.

Just be honest. Very good.

And Alonso is relatively strong in sector 3. He's going to dance up past the corners.

Alonso for one millisecond. One millisecond. That's really tight. I think Verstappen and Piastri are looking to beat you, so P7, I think. P7 solid.

P7. Solid job. Solid job. Let's tidy up a bit that turn 11 where we lose a bit. And remember, go wake yourself, please. You're not drinking. Go wake yourself.