Ready to check.

What's the time, Josh?

Yeah, until we go.

Yep.

Yeah, I'll do one for the... just the first lap and move to 4 after.

Yeah, copy. Without you.

Just on the lift-off, turn 4, turn 12, do you have any second or meters?

OK, yeah. Easy.

High gear, low revs, or lower gear, high revs, if we're just going slow, like, behind each other.

Not a bad point right now.

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Yeah, there's no other power, except that we got it.

OK, mate, so all OK. It's all explainable. Nothing to worry about. Lift into 4, please.

Attention to the road.

OK, so it'll be a rolling 5.5 to three burnouts.

Start with two seconds, please. Two seconds. Alonso behind on the soft tyre.

DRS enabled.

OK, one second. Scenario 1, please. Scenario 1. One second lift approach required.

Double yellow at turn one. Stay on the racing line, if possible, for three.

Albon point eight behind. Double yellow is now clear. Track clear. Just stay on line turn one.

PU12, position 3 for performance. PU12, position 3.

I have less power. Understood.

Only one second of lifting coast required. That's for tyres only.

Stroll point four behind. Forwards one. Click brake bias on the dash. One percent.

Convo 1.5 behind me, DRS will be a few seconds to close.

OK, mate, your last lap, one and a half seconds. We're spot on. Let's keep that up, please.

OK, mate, so rear slips are looking good. Tyres all under control. Good job.

Ocon 0.4 with DRS is issued by a big cooling related process back up now.

OK, lift the coast, this is good. Let's try and have it around one second a lap. Warm up the tyres anyway.

Okay, let the coast spot on once again. Looking for 30 metres in three places roughly.

Tyres stable. Focus on entering to turn 6 compared to Frankfurt.

0-40 nice speed. Understood. See what we can do.

If I speed 12, if I speed 12, that will help where you had snaps last lap.

Where am I losing feedback, GTS, now? So last lap was good, just a little. Exit 17 to focus on.

Exit turn 5 as well. Righto.

We are slipped on one. Can you help? Yeah, we'll have a look. Focus. Exit 10.

Brake pressure 1.5 on the dash, half a percent forward, over-rear slips at one.

Back left for turn one to add stability on the way in.

So last lap half a second. Another 20-30 metres if you can.

Michael will help the slips in braking as well. Last lap two tenths quicker than Franco.

OK mate, so we're gaining two tenths of a lap on Franco. Braking in turn one alone. So let's, let's not overcook it there.

OK, have a look at high speed, very understeer. Yep, understood.

OK, mate, on high speed we're going to struggle with mapping here. It's all about controlling rear surface temps going in. It's the best we can do for now. We'll adjust at the stop.

Both safety car windows open. Turn 1 was marked. That's a good job.

DRS last lap. So, last lap was solid, no driven losses.

Franco's last lap 24.4. You're averaging two tenths of a lap quicker. Keep it up.

OK, another solid lap. Keep it up.

My tyre range is all good. Just watch that rear exit the last corner. Fernando has now popped.

Sainz one second behind, no DRS this time.

OK mate, tyre engine's all good. Happy to decrease lift to coast by 20 metres. So I want 50 metres total.

We are on plan A, plan A.

OK mate, Franco, last lap. Found a little bit of time through turn 3 apex and exit. Other than that, rest of the lap was good.

And tyre feedback when you can, please, mate.

Ok, Franco, go into small gain, turn 1-3. Rest of the light was good. Keep focused in that area.

That turn 1-2-3 was good. Power the tyres, please, when you can.

Yeah, it's a bit of pure dike. Okay, I understood. So two and a half behind Franco, just behind him is Alonso. Used medium.

So now the car behind, 8.35 lap hold medium.

So one second behind no DRS. I don't think it's time.

Okay, 9.9 behind us. Try and keep up that lift to coast if you can.

Stroll two seconds behind. One lap hold mediums.

Stroll 0.7 with DRS.

OK, so we can sail back down now. All looking OK.

Lap time lost to Franco, last lap 12 to 17 in that sector.

A lot of surf issues. Understood. Keep up the lift.

OK, mate, so we're considering plan B for better blue flag management. Plan B for better blue flag management. Main climb lost. Franco 1-2-3.

Stay with it for now.

What's plan B? Don't be too safe. So what we're going to do is plan A, OK? We're going to box this lap. Plan A, box this lap.

OK, mate, so that's the hard tyre. We're going to go down two and a half turns. It's a big compound step. Help the rears. Yeah, you should put the balance on Franco's car. It sounds a lot two and a half.

Scenario 2 and box box. Scenario 2, box box.

Stay out. Stay out. Stay out.

I have no more tyre. Yeah, I know. Sorry about that, mate. OK, listen, Franco 0.8 with DRS. I'm sorry about that. Just get back on that lifted coaster. Just bring those rear tips back down.

Yeah, box this lap for a soft tyre. Box this lap, soft tyre. I don't know why it is soft. Continue 30 laps on medium.

6.7 with DRS. Gap behind him is 12 seconds to Verstappen.

Hey, we'd be happy to go to zero on the downhill just to help that bit of front lock. Zero on the downhill.

OK, we're happy to start using the tyre a little more now if it looks good. So you can stay to zero for now.

OK, switching that lap was good. Tyre injuries all under control. Keep that for now.

OK, mate, everything looks good, under control.

Next car behind, Leclerc, is in P2, 14 seconds. He's lapping 22.0.

Thirty-one laps to go, including this one.

OK, tyres looking very healthy. In terms of pace, we've got Bortoleto and Tsunoda lapping a high 20 watts. Tyres same as yours, just as a reference.

We're out the gating.

It's all just gradual through the lap.

Maintain time loss for those guys. Maybe he's in the last sector, but again, it's gradual corner by corner. You're doing a good job, mate. Keep it up.

Tyre energy is all stable.

What lap time? Lapping 24.0.

He's in a battle with Albon at the moment. Two seconds of that quick nearly.

Make a good lap, scoop it up. Higher energy's all under control. Flip's good.

Check the flow at the head of the kerb. Copy.

Still two seconds of lap time for Franco. Three to four laps time.

Okay, mate, so Energies and Degg look very good on this set. We think there's a chance we could go to the end here. How does it feel compared to the medium, please?

Okay mate, good job. Everything's stable. Keep building. 23 laps to go.

OK, Frank, I will be getting out your way.

I don't think I can make it to the end. OK, understood. We're going to keep monitoring the situation, all right? For now, keep going as you are. You're doing a good job.

Increase management nine and ten, please.

Okay, so we've got Leclerc, who's in P2, six seconds behind us. We think he'll be going to the end. And then a 12-second gap, Verstappen also going to the end, we believe.

9.2 management is good. Maintain that.

Otherwise, I think it's all stable. Keep us updated on this tyre, mate. Yeah, it's stuck. Copy.

I'm not sure it's very fast or not. I don't know what we're doing.

What's the pace compared to the new medium? Because I'm striding. Understood.

So, strategy guys are on it. So, Franco hops on to a new soft. I don't have a new medium reference at the moment.

You've got 19 laps to go. I'm going to keep you updated with the plan. Alright, keep going. And go for 20 and soft.

That will help these tyres as well. Just keep it up there, lap by lap, that will help, alright? You did a good job.

Okay, mate, so the majority of cars out there are doing the same strategy that we're on right now.

So, Leclerc, two and a half behind.

Franco's last lap, 21.9. At this rate, he won't catch his blue.

At 1.8 behind we'll be getting a blue flag soon.

Leclerc 1.1 behind.

Gap behind Leclerc. Six seconds to Verstappen.

Verstappen, four and a half. He'll be the next blue flag. Franco is another six seconds behind him.

Behind three seconds now. Franco will get a blue flag soon as well.

The blue flag are killing me. There's only one more to go. Once Verstappen's through, that's it. He's two and a half behind. Eleven to go.

Fail B-0-0. OK. Fail B-0-0. OK. Let's go for 4.

OK, nine laps to go. Franco's mate, five gates, four, five, six, and exit 12. Focus on those. Yep.

Ah, fucking sliding everywhere. OK, stay with it, please.

That's your best first sector for a while. Stick with it.

My wheels are cold. Understood.