OK, Max, you're car 6 in the queue.

OK, sync is good, so let's start to look after the car because of temperatures.

Okay, so five cars ahead. Hulkenberg's already opening his lap reasonably well spread out.

Alonso eight seconds ahead. He's third in line to go.

Alonso at 9 seconds and the only car left to go, so you're controlling the pace.

I have recharge off out of 14.

Recharge on. Cool the tyres. I have a lot of understeer. I need like one and a half more. Front wing, I think. Copy. OK, let's box the end of this lap.

Daniel, opening time lap. Turn 2 now.

Okay, no further threats behind.

Max coming off engine 8, position 9, please. Engine 8, position 9.

And engine 10, position 6.

OK, still no threats behind. First car on a tight lap is Sargeant at turn 5.

OK, box.

Can we get a rolling bike point find in the pitlane, please, Max? Rolling bike point find.

Okay, you should be clear of pit out.

We did one and a half race, yeah? Yeah, we did one and a half.

So there's still no one behind on the time lap.

Max, how were the tyres opening that lap?

Yeah, I think we're fine. Just immediately like a lot of understeer so that didn't help with a lot at the end. Copy.

OK. First car pushing might be Bottas. 18 seconds behind. We've got a good gap ahead. We're currently 12 seconds to Sargent. No, Bottas is not pushing, so no threats behind. 12 seconds ahead.

Red flag. Red flag.

Sightstop at turn 3.

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Dept Williams is coming out of the garage. He's not allowed to go in front, is he?

It depends if he was already waiting. Max, I didn't see on your onboard. No, I was waiting, but the mechanic just pushed him to the front. Guided him to the front. I think it should be your position. Looks fairly determined to get out though.

20 seconds.

10 seconds.

Ah, yeah, lovely. Well done there. Can you please report that?

So there's margin for us to push on, on the outlap max. As you can see, tyres are on the cooler side.

I believe there's four cars ahead now. Two Williams and two Haas.

Still four cars ahead. You can use DRS if you want to pass.

Okay, so you are car 3. Magnussen, Hulkenberg, Sargeant ahead.

OK, recharge off. Give yourself a good gap to Magnussen. Magnussen at 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. You're good.

Red flag. Haas has stopped at turn 2.

I have literally zero change. It's just understeering to the moon.

Box and a real-life pitstop.

So, adapting to the run plan max, we're looking at probably two push on this and two push on soft with a pitstop in between.

Plus four is my default. Plus four.

I'm getting blocked. Copy that.

You are car 9 on track. Tyre temperatures are actually looking OK.

So, car ahead is Ocon. Five seconds.

Still six cars to go ahead.

That's four cars to go.

Three cars ahead. Russell is the car behind.

Just Zhou and Ocon to go.

And now just Ocon.

OK, let's have recharge on. We have time for a single push, a single cool lap. Yeah, the car is still understeer, so whatever your computer says is completely wrong. Yeah, so let's have a look at diff 4, mid 4 for the next lap. Let's just try and react with what we've got in the car at the moment.

Currently no threats behind.

First car out of time lap looks to be Hamilton, high fuel, braking for turn 5.

Can we get engine 7 position 2, please, Max?

How long is it behind? Four seconds.

Next car is Sargeant. High fuel. He's at 5 seconds.

So, if we let them through, we want to build a decent gap for our second push.

And now there should be no further threats. It's just about building the gaps high for your runners.

And let's have a look at B-Bal 2 as well. Magnussen coming through, might be high fuel, he's on an outlap.

That's strat 1. Strat 1.

OK, we've got 7 seconds to Magnussen. 8 seconds.

Nine seconds. This is a good window. Recharge off.

OK Max, let's go mode 6, strat 7, push the inlap. Push the inlap, relieve recharge off.

Car is jumping like a kangaroo in the last sector.

I feel like I'm missing half of being in the high-speed.

Okay Max, so we're boxing at the end of this lap. We'll do another one and a half degrees and put the soft tyre on.

OK, recharge on, please, recharge on.

So, box and it's live pitstop.

OK, so let's push 2-3-4, get those tyres accommodated, and then back it out and get eyes on dash for the tyre temperatures for the rest of the lap. Piastri pit out. Oh, fucking hell!

Hamilton, entry, turn 5, time-lap.

Hamilton at 3.

Ricciardo, exit 5. Also on a time-lap. He's at 6 seconds.

Also, downshifts are shocking. There's locking everywhere.

Understood. Ricciardo at three seconds, time lap.

Tsunoda time lap, three seconds back.

Is there a gap behind somewhere now? Yeah, but we've got Bottas, he's seven seconds high fuel so if we let him through we need to leave a good gap to him.

We'll have mode 2, please, Max. Mode 2. Sir Bottas at four seconds.

OK. This now is the best gap we've got, so Checo behind on an outlap 11 seconds back.

Zhou is gone, Bottas is gone. Strat 8.

Mode 1. Mode 1.

OK. Recharge all.

That lap has put you P3.

OK, we've got Sargeant, turn 1. Might be opening a lap. Sargeant at 4 seconds. Could be on a lap.

Okay, no more immediate threats, so we've got time for a slow lap and then one more push. I'll talk you through the timing of the slow lap. Probably going to have to be a little bit quicker than the last one we did.

So, main deficit was sector 1, three tenths off Piastri sector 1, sector 2 one and a half tenths to Checo and sector 3 you're purple.

Yeah, just overrun it in sector 1.

Okay, suggestion is to have a look at mid 3, diff 3 for turn 1. Magnussen behind 2 seconds. The problem is that I'm on the exit and he's oversteering like crazy. The car, there's something wrong. Yeah, understood, Max.

Okay, Albon plus five. The car is just, yeah, the car is just jumping at the look speed.

Albon plus three. We're still on course to get our lap.

So, Checo five seconds ahead. Albon is high fuel, I think.

Okay, Piastri at 5 seconds. Who wants to try a bit ahead of him? Checklist instead.

Piastri is high fuel. Hamilton coming through high fuel.

OK Max, we can have mode 12, strat 9 and we'll come around for a start.

Okay, Max, it'll be one long, one short burnout and can you double-click the overtake before them, please? Double-click overtake. One long, one short.

Which side? Shortest queue. Shortest queue.

Box and we'll be live pitstop in the pitlane.