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And ready to check. Yep, landing clear. Cool, landing clear for me.

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Lando, tyre info.

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Fellow hard-ons to your right are Tsunoda, Antonelli and Stroll.

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On soft is Hamilton, Albon and Hulkenberg. Just remember to check your toggle brightness.

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And just a quick wind update. It is starting to die down. Probably 5 to 15 kph still.

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0.7.

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1.8

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0.9

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Thirty seconds to go.

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Twenty seconds.

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30 seconds.

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Just remember to press overtake.

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And Lando, no full load from now.

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And Lando, big lift into turn 12.

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Lando, launch me back. You are on target. Your timing was good. Can we have purple C13 position 6? That's C13 position 6.

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I don't know if you can close to your grid spot after the burnouts. It's going to be two and a half burnouts. Two and a half.

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It'll be purple C6 position 10, purple C6 position 10, then pre-set to C7.

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Last car approaching the grid.

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And Leclerc will have DRS. He's 0.6, minor, purple, C7, position 1, purple, C7, position 1, and I will take him in.

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If you're comfortable, suggest strat 7.

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Leclerc still with DRS.

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So just red A4, red A4.

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And Leclerc still with DRS. And Lando, we're happy with this as long as you're comfortable. This will be plan A target lap. Plan A target lap.

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I suggest we use a little bit of tyres just to make this bit easier.

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And Leclerc will not have DRS this lap.

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Leclerc with DRS.

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I'd suggest strat 7. Strat 7. We've asked Oscar to pick up the pace a bit. Leclerc with DRS.

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And Leclerc will have DRS. Happy with what you're doing with the tyres as long as we're comfortable with Leclerc. Yeah, I might just... Yeah, the gap may be between the next two.

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Yeah, understood. We're working on that. The field spread is incredibly tight, so Colapinto is only 15 behind. He's at the back.

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Leclerc with DRS.

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Remember, cheers over to you, bud.

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And Leclerc does not have DRS. The soft runners Holt and now Hamilton have pitted.

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And Leclerc does not have DRS. We think Verstappen's graining has started. Your tyre's looking at better condition than his.

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Leclerc with DRS.

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Lando, the position behind us, Tsunoda is in P10, he is 9.8. Alonso is in P6, he is 5.7.

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And if you want to protect the rear a bit, in places like 1 and 5, it would be up on A, up on A.

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Braking definitely picking up.

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Understood, Lando. We think Verstappen is a little bit worse. The hard looks to be more robust. Potentially will be rear thermal limited.

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And, Lando, if we had some pace available, we would use it to put trains behind. Leclerc 1.6. Yeah, but how much and over how many laps? OK, Russell 4.9, Alonso 6.3, Bortoleto 7.9, then Hadjar 11.5.

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We could go to plan A. Yeah, I'm on it. Plan A minus five. Plan A minus five.

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And if you have a tenth, maybe a fraction more, we'd use it. Main places or opportunities are turn 3 and turn 9.

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Russell has pitted.

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Lando, with Russell going, we should use a bit more pace, please. Copy that.

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And keep building this gap on Leclerc. It gives us choices.

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And Lando, the other reporter group is Ocon is in P6 and he's 14. Then there's Tsunoda, Lawson, Sainz, Stroll and Antonelli. Antonelli's 19.8.

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Box this lap, please. Box this lap.

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Stopping position.

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Lord to back, lord to back, lord to back.

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I will be close at exit, should be ahead of Russell, who's, you're going to be close to Antonelli ahead, Russell's behind.

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Without lap 2, stint 2.

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Fernando, we'll still need the grading saving driving. Doing a good job with that.

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OK, that's Tsunoda ahead. He's out from the beginning.

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Lando, we're doing a great job here. We still want to leave plan A on the table, please.

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And car behind you is Leclerc again, minor, ATS button pressed.

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So, Lando, for Oscar, he's just starting to see some right braking now on the hard, otherwise expecting rear thermal limit, similar to what we thought.

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I'm happy to push turn two and three by a tenth.

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We're on it with snow. That was classic rebel shithouser.

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So that is Verstappen ahead of me now. We don't need to worry about him. We're on our own, lads.

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Still happy to press a tenth more to turn 226.

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Lando, just be careful of pushing turn one a little bit too hard.

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Leclerc is pushing in turn two and three more than we are.

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So, Lando, situation behind us. Leclerc at 2, then you've got Tsunoda at 11.9, Russell at 12.6.

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So at the moment, if there's a safety car, we'd lose one position to Leclerc and we would take it. We'd have to rethink about it once Russell's through one zone.

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And Lando, the main opportunity for Leclerc is turn 6 braking. We're happy with what you're doing for now though because it's looking after the fronts.

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And Lando, the whole safety car window is open. Please confirm. And I would do nothing with the front wing. Happy?

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I know that your pace to Leclerc seems strong at the moment. You did the same braking there as Leclerc in turn 6, but don't compromise the exit which you did last time.

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So Leclerc is 3.5, Russell is 16, Tsunoda has pitted and has a penalty.

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And Lando, happy to reduce the saving in turn three by half.

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And Lando doing a great job compared to Leclerc. He might pit soon and go on a two, in which case we'd cover him the next lap.

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And Lando, if you want help with the oversteer in turn 5, suggest the right-hand paddle there. That's turn 5, right-hand paddle.

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Lando, just be careful of that push in turn 9.

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Minor. ACS button plus, please.

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Ferdinand Leclerc out of the pittage.

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Strat 6, please. Strat 6.

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And Lando, we're going to box this lap, hard tyre, no problem.

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We're going to box this lap, no threat. Be careful of white lines.

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There'll be launch map on in the pitlane. Stop in position.

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Launch back and be careful of white lines at exit.

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And be clear at exit. Outlap 2, stint 2.

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Lando, that snap was just over the bumper. Pitlane exit. So, Lando, soft runners earlier. Did seven or eight laps OK. We have to just think about if we'd want a soft under a safety car now.

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Strat 7. Strat 7.

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And, Lando, that's Oscar ahead of us. He's on the new medium. We really don't need to worry about him. We're just keeping on Leclerc behind 5.7. If we can build a gap, that just helps us.

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And Lando, happy to start pushing a bit more on turn two and three. Leclerc is pace zero.

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I'm having to reduce the light there as well.

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Fernando Leclerc did a 26.8 last time as well. Next time around, happy to push more in 2 and 3.

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Hello, the main opportunity to look to Leclerc and Naiko, turn 5, turn 6.

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Lando, the gap behind Leclerc is 4, to Russell it's 13.7, so our question would be, would you stay out on a hard, or take a soft go behind Leclerc?

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Lando, our default position repeats. Stay out unless you tell us we should pit for soft and lose to Leclerc.

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I'm doing a good job. No consistent opportunities due to me.

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So, Lando, doing a fantastic job here, mate. Everything's looking good. There's five racing laps, including this one, we think. What are your thoughts on soft or staying out on this hard?

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I mean, I think a softer would be better. It's just, you know, the safety car gets delayed or something.

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Nine-oh. Eight-six busted.

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And Leclerc starting to struggle with braking.

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Is he struggling with braking?

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Oscar, it's more the rears.

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We don't need to take any risk here. The gap to Leclerc is nine seconds.

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Be careful, late braking turn 6.

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It's the rear locking that's getting really bad in turn 6. Just back it off.

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Two laps to go.

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That's it, mate. You are world champion. World champion! Some boring bits. Leave recharge off. ACS better press. White H11 position 13. White H11 position 13. Well done, mate. I'm so proud.

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And Lando, we need pick up, please. Lando, this is Zac from McLaren. Is this the world champion hotline?

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We did it! We did it!

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Oh, shit. Thank you, guys.

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Oh, my God. You made a kid's dream come true. Thanks so much. I love you guys. Thanks for everything. You deserve it. I love you, Mum. I love you, Dad. Thanks for everything.

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I'm not crying. Me neither. Mate, you made all our dreams come true. Well done. I'm so, so happy. I hate to be a little bit boring. No burnouts.

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Sure. Order, order. Yeah, sure. Thanks Will, thanks Jav, thanks other Will. Oh, we did it, guys.

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He said you'd cry if he didn't win, but I hope you cry, because he did.

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I said I cry both ways. Thank you everyone at McLaren. I love you all. Everyone back in the factory. Everyone here at the track.

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To achieve this. I love you so much. Thank you, guys.

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And we go to the grid, Lando, we go to the grid.

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There'll be a world champions board waiting for you on the grid, mate.

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Which you thoroughly deserve.