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Five minutes to formation lap.
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So, tyre info. The first car on soft tyre is P3 Leclerc. The other cars from P1 Verstappen all the way down to P15 Colapinto are on medium tyres.
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Obviously, Lukail's soft tyre is used.
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So second car on soft is P16 Bortoleto and the P19 Stroll.
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And there are three cars on hard tyre. P17 Ocon, P18 Albon, P20 Hadjar.
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If you're a brake fan, I can help.
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We are just under three minutes to the final lap.
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75 seconds. Fire up.
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And pit limiter on.
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Forty-five seconds.
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Flight point defined. 25 seconds.
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Fifteen seconds.
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Clutch was on target.
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Keep working those tyres. Doing a good job so far.
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Target will be 1-0-4 at turn 15.
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Are you happy with your attempts?
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And we'll be coasting from turn 90.
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There'll be three burnouts starting at the Ferrari pit wall. Final one will be P11 Hulkenberg.
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And I see Strat 5.
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Last car approaching the back of the grid.
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Strat 13 available. Reminder diff entry. Gap ahead Piastri 0.9.
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Gap ahead of me at 3.8.
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Still one second.
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Gap ahead of Piastri is 1.5.
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It doesn't have DRS.
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VSC, VSC, so delta positive. Strat 1.
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So Sainz has stopped on the left-hand side of the track at pit entry.
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So we're just cooling down the casings here.
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And likely some debris to 14.15.
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Double yellow, turn 19 to 20.
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My drink bottle is leaking, by the way.
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So, car's a bit moved behind the barrier, if they've cleared up that debris at turn 15 yet.
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It's showing double yellow turn at 15 now.
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So, VSC ending will be strat mode 5.
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Green 3, position 2.
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George, currently we're seeing turn 17 over the limits on sliding power. Let me know what you think about plan A or B.
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Plan B currently.
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Track limit, Piastri, 5.13.
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Yeah, I think he's struggling front left. We are happy with your management on that last lap.
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George, you were correct, so Piastri now has two track limits.
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We are on plan B here. Target minus 10.
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Gap, I'm with Pierre Piastri. Four and a half seconds.
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So there is scope to lean on the tyres for turns three, four.
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So happy to ignore those oxidation warnings.
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Leclerc still on the soft tyre doing 39.9.
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Team C1, how does their pace look?
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So Verstappen 39.5, Leclerc and Norris both 5.
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It looks worse than we expected, George.
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And, George, can you just confirm the pace here being limited by the overheating question? Yeah.
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So a diff mid four available, if that would help in sector three.
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Norris is now ahead of Leclerc.
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So, Leclerc in the pits.
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He went on to the medium.
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So Lando was a 39.7 last lap.
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Target point at 16.8. Copy.
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And Alonso will be out the window next lap.
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That's just going on. There you go.
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Tyres have no grip. I can't do a lock-up.
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So, Leclerc 3.2, currently 39.1.
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Not much proper now. You've got Norris in the pitlane and Verstappen will box at the end of this lap.
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Are you ready? Just a moment.
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Air balance update.
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Box, box. We're five behind Piastri on exit.
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Reset diff entry, mid and high speed.
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So it'll be 22 laps when we cross the line.
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And green at 7, position 5.
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George, which compound would be best under a safety car? Copy.
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Sixteen laps remaining.
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So that's 10 laps remaining.
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And now eight laps remaining.
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Green at three, position one.
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Five laps remaining.
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Three laps remaining.
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Two laps to go. Overtake, push and hold available. Exit turn 11.
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Overtake available. Exit 20.
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And final lap. Overtake. Push and hold. Exit turn 11.
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So Lewis, 1.7 ahead of Piastri.
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Yeah, that's fine, that's it.
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OK, so picking up rubber and we'll have green 1 position 12, strap 14.
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Yeah, we didn't have the pace today, did we? Sorry about my start.
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Yeah, I think everyone just gets capped by the overheating here, George.
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I think if we'd been in a different position coming out of turn one, then maybe it would have been a different afternoon story.
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