Ready to check.

Yeah, it's a bit crackly, but I can hear you.

McLaren out of the grid.

Just got to watch out on the grid, leaving the boxes empty.

Skip the blankets.

Can you confirm cloud seven?

Can I confirm, clutch 7.

What do you want me to do, last straight?

Zero to 50% properly if possible, mate.

So it's completely normal that the car will stay in the middle. Always looking good at the moment. You're all good.

Okay, mate, so here we are. We're doing four burnouts lining up on the left-hand side. Reminder, we've got an empty grid slot in front of us. Four burnouts, an empty grid slot in front of us.

Looking good there, mate. OK, guys, so strat 7, we're all set. Let's press the burnout button now, please. And on the blue lights, pre-start revs.

Overtake enabled. Car behind Franco. Good job.

Okay, mate. Great job so far. Gap behind three seconds. Virgil, that will not work this end.

OK, mate, let's sail into it now. Good job.

Some ports fork delivery. Gap in the car behind. 3.3.

Gap behind stable 3.4. 3.4. All good.

Gap stable 3.3. Pack is full, leaving 13 every lap so far.

Hi, man. You're doing very good as well. Keep up, please.

I want the gap at any corner I'm losing. Yeah, understood. Gap 3.7. All's looking good, mate. Just keep going.

Increase management turn 8.

8. Increase management turn 8. Watch. Up shifts into 1. Down shifts into 1.

Gap behind 4.1. No driven losses.

OK, another step increase of management to turn 80, please. A little bit more management.

Gap behind 4.4. Just need to keep watching that front 8. No more pushing than you did last lap. A bit more management is fine.

Gap behind five seconds. How are the tyres, please? Safety car window is open.

There's no problem.

OK, you're doing a great job here. Just keep it up. We're pulling away.

Is everything good? Everything is good, mate. Everything good. We're on plan A at the moment. Keep going. Gap 5.5.

Car behind Franco, 5.6. Two seconds behind him is Ocon, also on the half.

OK, mate, so safety car and VSC windows open. Safety car and VSC windows open. Box, box, box, box.

Mate, we're going half a turn down onto the hard tyre. Happy with that?

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And we'll go strat 1. Pit stop onto hard tyre.

Clear behind. Clear behind. So we're following the delta, please, so just stay positive. Delta, boost, no boost. All this time detention has been a mess. Yeah, understood. You're all good, mate. We're all alright. So what we're doing now, mate, we're staying in Strat 1. We're going to charge the pack to back up.

What are these blue lights? Blue lights on the dirt? I'm sure on that one. For now, no action required. You're all good.

OK, mate, so they're just some safety car warning lights, nothing to worry about. More safety car. There's the car behind.

Okay, so where we are at the moment, we've got Bearman, who's just left the pitlane. He's 12 seconds behind.

What are these blue lights on my dash? They are just warnings for the safety car, believe me. No worries, no action required. You can just ignore them.

Okay, mate, so where we are with cars. So, Hulkenberg in front did not stop. Ten lap hold hards. And you've got Leclerc in front of him who did.

Stop on 10 lap hold hard. So we're currently P9. Four cars in front did not stop.

Recovery vehicle on track as well. So all we're doing at this point, mate, is keeping warming the tyres.

Everyone boxed behind Alonso and Perez, yeah.

And I think I've got a chance compared to the first in.

Stappen, the car behind, boost available if needed.

Tire energy is good. Verstappen behind.

Good job on tyres. Using boost down to turn one, press and hold the whole straight.

That's further back this time. Good job.

Stop at point 5.

Good job, Liam. All parts in front.

Possible debris right-hand side on this straight.

Okay, mate. Very good. Let's get Bearman.

Slightly down on this straight this time.

Yeah, that wasn't fair.

I'm sorry, that wasn't fair. Let's go for that, mate. We've reported it.

So Carl's behind a Hulkenberg and a Lindblad and they're both on fused parts. Plenty more pace than them.

I'm out of here. What the fuck!

Don't worry, we'll come back.

This is, it's honest, I have no words. Fantastic.

Okay, mate. So that happened because you lifted and then went back on power for turn 14. So we need to avoid that to stop spending energy.

I don't know if I can guess, mate. You've just got to keep it as consistent as you can. The three cars in front have all got to box anyway.

OK, mate. Nicely done. Head down.

Ocon and Franco in front. Tyres at a 10-lap sold. Go on, just keep going.

Hulkenberg behind does not have FI overtake now.

OK, mate. Pulling away from Hulkenberg 1.2.

Gap behind stable one second. Reminder to keep one line under braking and being attacked.

Okay mate, gap 1.2 behind now. Tyre management is all good, only drip loss is 1.2.

Gap behind stable 1.2. Only lost Ocon in front at turn 3.

Gap behind stable 1.3. I am out. All good.

Nice job, Franco.

I want the gap to match every lap. Understood. Five seconds.

And I guess what he did is okay, right? Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, well, if I catch him...

Okay, that's too smart. 37.3.

Okay, mate, so we're pulling away from the cars behind. We've got pace in us. Let's head down, focus on catching them.

Bearman two seconds in front. Verstappen up 37.7.

End of the pit at the max that time. Gap 5.4 official.

I lost drive out of 10th gear. Understood, we're looking. One tenth quicker sector one and two tenths quicker sector two, the max that time. I can't hear you, can't hear you.

Okay, mate, drive all good. Just head down and focus.

Tyre management all good. 24 to go.

Max Verstappen, every sector. Another four tenths up sector 2. Keep going.

Still two tenths a lap quicker. Hulkenberg behind still needs to box. Everyone in front, we expect going to the end.

Walkie down fifths into one. Stay on line four to six.

Gap in front 4.7 now. We're reeling them in. Keep going.

Gap 4.6 now. Tyre management all good. Keep it up.

Catching both cars in front three tenths every lap. Keep it up.

I can't hear you on the black straight.

Catching the cars in front three tenths every lap. Keep it up.

Still quicker than both cars in front. How do you think this tyre would be if there was a safety car?

OK, mate, still catching. Keep down, keep focused. Let's go.

So Lawson and Hadjar behind within our safety car pit window. Let's keep building the gap.

Three tenths quicker than the cars in front, a second quicker than the cars behind.

No driven losses to the cars in front. Main gain on Verstappen is turn 7 and 8.

Still closing up that gap 2.5 now. Keep it up.

Think about top right modifier for turn 9. Think about top right for turn 9.

Okay, another 1.2 seconds and we'll be within the FIA overtake to Verstappen. Keep it up, keep going.

If there was a safety car, Pierre, we'd come out just in front of Lawson and Hadjar. We'd be very close to them for info.

That top right looks good.

Twelve laps to go. Gap two seconds.

And in for Verstappen.

Yeah, we think safety car window open for a soft tyre. Eleven to go. What do you think?

Is it 11 laps after this one? 11 laps after this one, yeah. Copy.

37.2. We're over half a second quicker. Keep going.

No driven losses to Bearman.

Gap three seconds, ten laps to go.

We gain about three tenths to him on this straight each lap. Let's keep it up.

Talk to you soon.

It's tricky. Keep going with it. Keep going.

Brake tyres half a percent rearwards. It will help turn 14.

Bearman's only gains are turn 1 and turn 8-9. He's struggling with the fronts more than us. Perez in front of him is going to get a blue flag soon.

I'm getting a lot of P6. Understood. 8 to go.

Seven laps to go. No brakes behind.

Yeah, fair enough, it's too long.

6 laps, 2.8 seconds. We're still catching him. Let's go.

Bearman gaining mid-corner turn 3 and turn 8. We're happy to push the tyre if he can.

5 laps to go, 2.7.

Safety car windows are closed.

Sturman struggling a little more. Seven, eight, nine that time. Let's keep pushing.

OK, mate, let's just watch the front lockings. This tyre gets older.

Gap 2.4. Three laps to go. I need to make one mistake, mate. Keep it up.

More lap after this. Press and hold boost into turn 1 this time.

Impressive whole-boost all the way to 14.

I'd like you to check it. Strap 13, please. Strap 13. Pick up rubber. And that's P6. Well done.

Oh man, I gave everything I had.

I really wanted to get the P5 because that's...

That mid-race was annoying.

Yeah, I tried everything to catch up though.

P6 at race 2. I think that's a good sign. Yeah, I'll just put it in my mind. I'll get it. Anyways, still very good effort. Where did Franco finish? So Franco finished P10. P10. Yeah, good.

So on your way round, I'll just give you the quick running order. Reminder of pick-up and reminder to drink as well. It's been a long one.

I think as well. It's been a long one. So, Antonelli P1, Russell P2, Hamilton.

You know, at the start I had everything under control before the safety car went like a good gap.

Then after it was kind of lost out with that, but anyway, it's been a very good weekend, guys.

Thanks for the car. It was very enjoyable seeing it.

I mean, race 2 with everything that's coming, it's uh, we're at 1.6, so...

Well done as well. More to come. So we are boxing now into Parc fermé and then normal.