Bottas at three seconds. Two. One. Next car pushing Piastri, ten seconds.

These Alpines are on charge laps. Gasly in front also on a charge lap.

Piastri is seven seconds back.

So Piastri's still at five seconds.

Gas for four seconds.

Piastri, two seconds pushing. Clear behind him. One, coming through. Okay, unsure what Gasly's doing in front. Unsure what Ocon's doing behind.

Albon pushing at 5 seconds, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Handbrake to open the lap. Recharge off.

Delta. Odd. Delta. Odd. And box this lap.

Cancel handbrake.

No immediate threats behind.

So, no-one on a lap behind.

Max currently P1, 28.4. We're in P5, 28.7.

OK, so box, enter John, switch off, watch out for the weighbridge.

Delta on. Delta on. Keep up the pace. Cancel handbrake.

OK, so max improved to a 28.1. Leclerc 28.3. We're P3 on a 28.6.

Okay, so box. Watch out for the weighbridge. Otherwise, into jump.

Delta off. Recharge on. Delta off. Recharge on.

So Albon opening his lap at 9 seconds and it's all clear behind him. Hulkenberg might have stopped ahead. Hulkenberg maybe stopped at turn 7. Coming up to him.

Albon, seven seconds back. Yep. He's stopped it. Albon at five seconds.

Albon still 4.8.

Are they going to red flag or not? No news yet. Albon at three seconds, three and a half.

One and a half, one. Okay, no threats behind. Focus on the tyre prep.

Okay, red flag. Be careful. Okay.

Why they took so long to do it? Albon has been there for a minute, Hulkenberg was there for a minute. I'm the best.

Recharge up.

Okay, delta's all good, so we box.

Enter John and switch off.

On the way, bridge. On the way, bridge.

Other way, Fudge.

OK, back to P2.

Exit SC2. Likely need to go a bit faster than the guys in front.

Ok, your car 5 in the queue. Berman, the two Mercs, then Daniel.

So, Bambin's gone. Two marks to go.

Handbrake reminder.

Two bikes yet to go.

Lewis is gone.

Delta on. Delta on. Cancel handbrake.

You're in phase with everyone. Need delta. On. Delta. On.

We're at P3 at the moment. Our max is 28.0, Fernando 28.1.

That was a great second one.

Yeah, you think we can improve going again on this set?

There he was, nowhere.

Yeah, Coppi, you did a good job building temperature, but they were still on the cool side.

OK, so let's box. Watch out for the weighbridge. Otherwise, into John and switch off.

Mate, I think I can improve on this set. Copy.

There's no time pressure here, so eyes on the delta. It needs to be negative.

Got a nice bit of track position here, it's all clear in front.

So yeah, just Russell to go in front coming into turn 27 now.

No-one on a push lap. That will challenge us.

Tyres are looking good. Done a nice job. Track is clear. Handbrake, VTOL drop.

Delta on. Keep up the pace.

Delta on. Delta.

OK, fresh rubber. Into T3. Let's go.

Turn 4 is getting very deep for me.

Yeah, we're having a look.

28.0 for max.

Two fresh sets of rubber going into P3 here.

Okay, so box. Watch out for the weighbridge, otherwise into John.

Okay, recommendation to retain the handbrake. We'll use the handbrake for turn 1. Just get the tyres in the window.

So Yuki, the car in front, he's got a light gap.

So, Yuki at two seconds.

Leclerc, first car, just opening his lap now.

Leclerc, first car, just opening his lap now.

Delta on. Delta on. And keep up the pace.

First set of laps, quite a few people on scrub tyres.

27.8. Fernandes dropped in behind you. 27.9. Two terms off. And 27.4 for Max. Cancel handbrake, cancel handbrake. Keep up the pace on the way in.

OK, Checo, heads up. How is the balance on that set?

Stand out corners. I'm 1.5. I'm struggling for the rear.

I think there is some time to gain there.

Copy. Losses were all through the high speed. 7, 8, 9, 10 and then 16, 17.

A bit of a loss under braking into 27 or so. All you need in the very high speed.

Yeah, I'm bouncing off a bit.

So, Fox, it's a draw.

It's okay, let's go.

Okay, Checo, through this outlap. You've got to put them in 7, 8, 9, 10.

Delta off, recharge on.

Make sure you've got a nice gap here. We've got loads of time.

Do what you need to do in sector 1.

Get those tyres working. Get the grip. Turn 1-2.

We're seeing B-Bal 4 at the moment.

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So that's six seconds to you, Tsunoda.

Oh, pretty well spaced. Just need to make sure I've got the gap to Tsunoda.

So, just Yuki to go.

Just a handbrake reminder. Build the gap to Yuki.

Yuki's yet to go. OK, he's gone. B-Trol-Trol.

Delta on, Delta on, cattle handbrake.

Just seeing what Fernando can do.

Leclerc's done a 27.74 on drifts.

Fernando hasn't improved.

27.4 for Max, 27.7 for Leclerc, then yourself and P3.

Ah. Yep.

Difficult session there. Couldn't get a nice grip. That last run was quite understeery.

Yeah, I did get understeer. Tomorrow is the race, so good starting point. Yeah, for sure. Well done, Checo. That was a strong qualifying today. First and third were in good positions for tomorrow. Well done. Yeah, good job, guys. Let's get it done tomorrow. Well done.

OK, you're into the pitlane.

Into the pitlane and you can leave it in P1.