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Thanks for the radio check.

Yeah, copy.

Okay Alex, so tyres, everybody on new medium with the exception of Hamilton in P10. He's on a scrubbed hard. Piastri, 18 on a scrubbed hard. Norris, 15 on a scrubbed medium and Stroll and Tsunoda are back on soft.

So from Ocon in P16 all the way to the front, everybody on mediums, but Hamilton on the hard.

Your eyes were good for early overtake out of 12 if you need that one.

Last 30 seconds.

That's 15 seconds.

P5, remember go full.

Try and do brake warming into 5, it will help kickstart everything.

Okay, let's try and get some brake warming again. Push and hold the button. Push and hold the button. Brake warming. Then we can accelerate.

Grip and launch is good. Brake tabs are good. Compare and make five burnouts. Pull toggle before the start.

Last car approaching the grid.

Early overtake available if you need to. Go race when you can.

All right, potential debris turn 1. Just take care. It's a BSC, BSC.

Maximise tyre warming for now. Positive on the delta.

When you can, green 10, position 9. Green 10, position 9, just to help the rear tips.

Green 8 position 3. Green 8 position 3 for shifts.

So Perez pitted with front wing damage. Alonso also an issue. He's pitted lap 1. And Bottas.

Good for brake warming, holding the button.

So, mode is good.

I'll just be go-race when I give you the heads up.

Green 10, position 8 when you can. Green 10, position 8.

DSC ending, go switch to go race. Potentially exit 16.

Good for an early overtake. DRS is enabled.

Window for the safety car is closed.

Stay out, stay out.

That's a safety gap. So that's back up by the tyre warming. That's Norris and Perez turn 12.

So into turn 5 we can do the push and hold brake warming.

We're doing so much that it's almost counterintuitive because I'm busy looking at my dash the whole time.

The tyres feel good. I feel like they're not going to drop out.

Okay, tyres are still in the window for now, we just need to keep them there.

So if you can maintain that without the brake warming, that's fine. So we are P5, Logan 6.

But also this safety car is dangerously slow. We're going to have a lot of crashes if it's this speed anyway.

I'm not sure if I can get past Tom. So let's just focus on our tyres for now.

Okay, tyre temperature now starting to drop slowly, so everything we can on tyres.

Yeah, this car is way too slow. Okay, let's help with rear. Let's give you green 10, position 9. Green 10, position 9. Should help rear tyre tap.

Repeat. Green 10, position 9.

So the hard tyre will struggle at the restart.

I think the rear tyre's got some temp. It's more the front at the moment. I can see the steering's never straight, so we're doing what we can.

Green 10, position 8. Green 10, position 8.

I have a good underbrake while we just maximise the tyres and weaving.

The spectator car is in this lap.

Yep.

OK, so switches wise it'll just be go race, put an error at the time, so safety girls on the move, Verstappen backing people up, just need to be on our toes.

Time-wise, we've done a pretty good job there.

Sneak that go race at the convenient point.

Safety car is exit 16. We're not sure if Verstappen may go early or wait until exit 16.

Safety car is in A-C1 now.

Let's go race, I think. Let's go race now. Copy.

Early overtake available.

DRS enabled, next lap.

Green 10, position 7 when you can. Green 10, position 7.

Okay, so I gap to Gasly ahead just over two seconds.

Radio pull. Repeat out of turn 16.

So, think about management from right 1 and 11. Radio was poor on the back straight.

The rears are overheating.

Copy that. The green 10 will help that. The green 10 adjustment just did will help that.

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Radio is pulled between 12 and 13. Copy that. Copy front right.

So we'll continue manage 1 and 11. You can Lyco into 7 as well, should help. Still on plan A. You're on lap number 12, plan A.

Just go to mode 7 when you can, mode 7.

What do you think to keeping the flap for the next set? I'm just getting more oversteer than the front.

I know graining is similar on these cars ahead. Russell and Leclerc.

OK, window for both safety cars open. Car behind is Ocon 1.6.

How is the hard tyres? Are they great?

I'll give you feedback shortly. We can manage more into 1 at the moment. Gap behind 1.3.

It's a hard tyre source, slow warm-up, but overall the whole track is negative deg for the track improvement.

Gap 0.6 behind. Good for a late overtake, as you need. Potential debris on the straight to 14.

I'm going to get four. Oscar, be next.

It won't be long.

I can reset black rotary. Reset the black rotary.

OK, check. Go defend. Go defend at mode 5. Go defend mode 5.

Going to go hard tyre, no flap adjust.

You're racing Bottas for exit. You should have a couple of seconds ahead of him in that. Watch your white line on exit. White line.

This is exactly not the outline.

When you can. I'm racing already!

OK, looks more comfortable on the straight to Bottas.

So let's try and recover this as best we can.

Gap behind at 1.5. We need a green 8 to position 2.

Green 8, position 2, and green 10, position 9. Green 10, position 9.

How are the hard tyres guys? Are they grainy or are they fine?

There has been some reports more recently, nothing earlier.

So let's manage 1.11 on this hard tyre. Gap behind at 3 seconds.

Let's go mode 6 for a lap, mode 6.

Green 10, position 7 when you can. Rear tyre taps are good.

Okay, gap behind 1.5 to Piastri. I suspect Ocon will pit shortly. He's on the bubble of the pit window. So potentially Ocon will pit this lap, racing Ocon pit exit.

This pace they're doing, it must be too slow. I don't think it's that slow.

Piastri behind you is double hard, so he will need to pit again. Piastri will have to pit again.

There's 29 laps to go. Piastri will need to pit again, so if it's too much, he can manage.

How's my face?

We're happy with pace, Alex. We are happy with pace.

I'll give you a switch change out of 16 for just a change of deployment. A bit more tyres leaving in 11 and 17.

So go mode 10, mode 10.

Alex Boudin could jump on tyres. You've got Zhou three cars ahead. He's on 22 lap hard. He's yet to pit.

Into 1 minute 40.

HPP on when you can.

This is still fun. It's still fun.

Potential debris corner exit.

Both safety car windows are closed. Zhou, two cars ahead.

OK, this is safety cap.

So I'll stay out.

As you come past SC2 as close as you can on the delta, Stroll may be pitting. I'll be on the bubble.

So, max tyre warming where we can. So, Stroll is in the pitlane. Be as close on exit as you can on the delta.

10-max tyre. Have to use a brake warming. When you go through turn 12 it'll be the double yellow safety car delta.

Can you give me an update on the race, what's going on, just pace and everything?

That's great, no one's mad.

Okay, so watch this double yellow delta through here.

OK, so there's 24 laps to go. You've got George pitted behind you, so he'll have a decent tyre delta. We don't need to fight that one.

OK, I'm in. Or I can cross around me. Alonso is, you've got Logan behind, well, behind George. And then he's on the same as you. He pitted the lap before you. You've got Alonso just pitted again. He's behind Logan. So I don't think he'll be in our fight. It's possible Ocon will pit again just ahead of you.

And the Alfa's and the Haas's have pitted again there towards the back, so they'll have to make progress, so we may see them towards the end.

OK, well, just Logan Esquit is almost out. Yeah, copy that. Directly behind you now is George then Sainz.

It doesn't matter, turn and face 0.

Pacewise. For you, we're happy where we are.

We think all the cars ahead are going to go straight.

Piastri. Well, Piastri for sure will have to pit. We think the pace of Ocon was quite quick. Maybe they'll have to stop, but they may change it now.

When you can, green 10, position 10, green 10, position 10.

Behind Logan, are they all on new tyres? Yes, exception of Ricciardo at P15, he's on 10 lap harder. Copy.

You've got Zhou two spots behind Logan. He's on the medium, new medium. There's 23 laps to go.

You can set mode 6, set mode 6.

The safety car is in business.

So, all cars eminently behind you. Three cars all on hard tyres.

Safety cars at turn 14.

Go race.

Safety car at C1.

Get me off the green, turn switch quickly.

I think tyre grip is now not anything more than this. Confirmed. Green 10, position 7.

DRS enabled.

Happy to use push toggle for 7 through 9 if you need.

It's currently 19.19 laps to go. Holding position well. Nice job.

Sorry for us, the wind strength has increased in the last lap or two.

So, Stroll behind only gains a couple of tenths into 14. You've got the late overtake if you need just to fill the pack. But it seems okay for now.

Let's go mode 10 again, mode 10 again to help the tyres.

I'm going to use a late overtake on this straight just to cover any deployment changes with the mode 10. Use a late overtake and you should be okay.

Tyre condition OK from our side. Feedback when you can. On tyre switch otherwise. I'm pushing. That's all.

Copy, that's 16 laps to go, P7. 16 laps to go.

We're happy to use late overtakers you need.

That was pushing hard, that was.

From our side there was a single push for info. OK, so George 0.6 back. He has a 5 second time penalty. George has a 5 second time penalty. Sainz behind him.

Go to plan B.

My radio is poor. I think he's talking about front right opening up.

This video is poor, you'll have to use it here if you need it.

Go mode 13 if you need. That'll be on you on the management, on modes.

A cracking effort. 12 to go.

Just a reminder on the empty and the easier bits.

The window for the safety car only is open.

Get me off of the pack, please.

Let's go mode 6. Mode 6. 1.1 to Joe behind. He's on 13 lap medium.

You can go mode 7 for a little bit more on the pack.

This is too much!

It's completely changing everything. The road surface is terrible.

OK, leave it where you are, just cover yourself out at 12 with the late overtake.

What's the gap? 0.6. You've got pack, you've got pack.

So we're getting two tenths on the straight, so Piastri has just pitted. He will be behind. So it will be P11 with seven to go.

So Piastri will have two seconds on tyres and then Zhou under threat from the two Haas all in DRS range of each other.

Let's go green, 10, position 9, green, 10, position 9.

Gap behind at 1.2.

So we're at P12 with 5 to go. I'll give you a shift adjust at turn 4.

Green 8 position 1.

Gap behind at 2.4. 2.4 behind.

Still a joke! Hey fam, still a joke.

Put 90 more now, Magnussen, 2.1.

Safety car windows all closed now. Hulkenberg has retired.

Gap at 1.8.

Three laps to go.

Gap behind 1.4. Update on track limits. So we've got one strike. That was about eight laps ago at turn 4. So one strike on track limits. Gap behind 1.5.

Two laps to go.

The green is clearing out.

Good for a late overtake.

How far? Fuck!

OK, let's go mode 5, mode 5. Starting the last lap now.

Exit 12 will be an early overtake. Exit 12 early overtake.

Early overtake again. Good.

OK, P12. Need a switch change. Switch change before 5. So it's blue 10, position 13. Blue 10, position 13.

OK, P12. Not easy, but nice job. Well done.

Yeah, sorry, the radio was so bad. The greening cleared off on the last three laps. A bit late, but... yeah. Yeah, copy. Last lap was your quickest.

HPP off.

Don't need to collect anything.

We're good, we're good.

Alex, that's the best we could do with the car we had. Well done. We've got one more round to keep fighting for our position.

Yeah, yeah. A bit frustrating, but yeah, we'll try to understand why.

Thumbs up, you're okay.