Hi Gary. I noticed actually I didn't do the by-profile arrival of the back of the grid. Or was that not wanted anyways today? It was wanted but I think it's okay. I'll just double check with Mike. Yeah, let me know if you need one now. Yeah, understood. Six and a half minutes.

Hi Mike. Nico said he didn't do the static when he arrived on the grid, so do you need a static or not?

Sorry, Nico. OK, so five and a half minutes till we go and we're OK on the static, no need.

Yup, copy.

OK, Nico, three and a half minutes till we go. We set your start brake balance and shape. Just remember a nice introduction with these tyres and just waiting for other people's tyres. When we fire up, just the pit limiter on. Keep the pit limiter until the line and then remember to go back to mode RS for the race start. Yep, copy.

OK, tyres 1 through 9 are on medium. Alonso and P10 is on a hard. Hamilton in 11 is on a soft. And then behind us, Ricciardo soft, Zhou hard. So hard runners is Alonso and Zhou. Soft runners is Hamilton and Ricciardo. Well, and the Alpines are on Bottas? Alpines are both medium. Bottas medium. Alpines medium.

Two minutes till we go. Two minutes.

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B-Bal offset plus one.

B-Bal offset plus one.

Hard push, hard push.

DRS enabled.

You can try diff 22 if to oversteer.

It was a pretty static racing. Probably a good saving on tyres, I think.

Copy that, Nico.

Verstappen is slow ahead. Verstappen is slow into turn 11. He's past 11 now.

It's a bit fucked up at the rear here, actually. That probably was a residual tear. Copy that, Nico. Your management side looks OK for now.

Diff 21. Diff 21.

I don't know. I just lost the grip. Turn 1 as well now.

Copy, Nico. Is it plus all around or one axle? Legos, I'm careful as well.

Feels like there's some grinding going on already.

Other people are struggling too, especially medium runners, so if we just can hang on a little bit, try shape 2, that causes a snap in turn 1.

And I've got some braking already. That sucks. I'm just heading to clean air.

Yeah, copy that, Nico.

Yeah, copy. We see the graining. It's still mild compared to what the medium runners are getting.

5-6 is where we're hurting the tyre most, and I think it'll be OK. It's going to come back a bit. I'm going to force push through with Gasly, otherwise he's getting us. Copy that, Nico.

Leclerc and Piastri pitted. They're behind Ocon.

Resuggest at 11.

Leclerc is pressuring Ocon now. We don't want to lose time with Leclerc and Piastri if they get to us.

Car behind is now Leclerc.

Good job, Nico. Safety car window is open. We think 0.4 more if we go on to a hard next stop.

It's quite draining, but I am 2.36 and 7.99. It's up to the edge.

I have no grip under braking.

How is it? It's a 5.2, 5.2. Top left 440. Sorry, it's not great.

But it's kind of stable like that.

Yeah, fuck 2 for last corner.

Coming out 5-0. I just made it coming out 5 ahead.

Gaby behind is under pressure from Mercedes.

Russell behind on new or hard.

OK, Nico, it's yellow 10-exit for Hamilton.

VSC, VSC, need to be just positive on delta time, just plus. For a medium tyre, I would add the same amount, 0.4.

Okay, it's yellow and green. Yeah. I think towards 4. I don't know. Maybe even 4. I think even 4, Gary.

We're boxing, yeah? Copy that. Nico, box now. Nico, box now.

We'll be close to Ricciardo and Magnussen on exit. Remember mode RS, leave in the box. And then you'll be back onto the Delta time when you're on track after the run.

OK, Nico, it's VSC ending, but it's still VSC. It's ending very soon. OK, VSC ended, Nico.

Fighting Ricciardo. Pit exit.

He's on a 12-lap hard.

OK, Nico, we added 0.6, this medium. Kevin had a lot of front left graining, so you definitely need to bring it in. We'll just go as long as we can on it.

Good job, Nico. Good opening lap. Gap is 1.1 behind now.

Okay, good laps, Nico. We'll get this tyre as long as we can to get another opportunity later.

Okay, manage more 5 and 6. Kevin's P11, your P12. Kevin has 14-lap-old hearts.

OK, good job. We suggest DX3 for the high speed.

It's a bit too aggressive, over the entry.

Copy that, Nico. No problem.

Very good on tyres, Nico. That's exactly what we need.

Okay, Nico, I think we're gonna swap quick now.

OK, Nico, really good job. You're catching Albon. Just keep doing the managing like you're doing. That's what we need. Good job.

Albon on 24 lap old hard.

Is he going to stop still, I think?

Not talking about it yet. They started on medium, did only a few laps on it, then to hard.

We have to get the pace, Nico, because he's doing 23.6.

OK, Nico, here's some...

If you're faster, we can overcut. Tsunoda is 6.6 ahead. You're faster than him too.

Next stop on the hard. What do you think balance-wise?

Not too sure I heard you there. Copy.

We'll see what we can do. Whatever that's next. We can just put on a little .25.

Ha-ha-ha!

Maybe a bit more exit.

Copy that, we'll do front and core.

Red 7, E-B7 will help 3 and 4.

Good job, Nico. How's the tyre? So-so.

It's a great race. It's stable for the moment, but if we were to have some traffic, it's going to fall apart a lot.

If you can keep going this pace for now, it's good.

You're doing good on the window and tyres now, so we'll take whatever pace you get out of these tyres. Copy.

Who's the guy ahead? C5 ahead.

We'll be catching up a little bit.

You are catching him. Let's use all this tyre right now, Nico. Yeah, right now. I can't ram though. I want to live with the last five laps.

Box now, Nico, box now.

Nico will be 1.2 behind Albon. His tyres already have 8 laps. He has a big tyre advantage.

OK, awesome Nico. And Tsunoda just boxed, so that's who you're racing to the end.

What position are we going to be for?

So, with this, like this, you would finish P10, Tsunoda would be P9, he just pitted, and then Albon has nine lap hold, hard Spongiu.

So it'll be 21 laps to go, Nico. Get his tyre to the end. Let's do it.

Gasly is ahead of Tsunoda. He still has to pit. His tyres are 21 laps old.

Press oil pump button.

I need to be careful not to push too much now. I have a feeling we'll find a broken line.

Still a pretty long way to go, right?

Yeah, copy that, ECO.

Turn 10 is one spot you could save a little more.

Okay, it's 16 to go, just for reference, Tsunoda 21.8.

What's going on behind me? I have no tyres.

Car behind is Albon on 15 lap old hards and Kevin is pressuring him.

15 to go. Turn 6, turn 10. Those are the places you can watch a little bit.

Gap behind. Drive up. 3.5.

Car behind is now Kevin.

Just for info, left toggle has no effect.

13 to go. Tsunoda, 21.8. Kevin, 21.6. Gap behind 3.5. All good.

Twelve to go. Good laps. Tyres looking good.

11 to go. Just manage 6 and 10 a little more. We see the balance took a little step.

Gap behind is 3.8. All OK.

How's the tyre, Nico? It's OK. Well, it sucked back in a little bit.

OK, good lap. 7 to go. Gap behind is 2.8. Kevin's doing like 21.5.

Okay Nico, six to go. Tyres definitely looking good to the end. Tsunoda 21.6, Kevin 21.6.

5 to go. Good job. Gap behind 2.5.

7 would help turn 3 understeer, but maybe you don't want to use it. It's up to you.

Where's Kevin? He made a mistake, so he's 5 behind.

So the gap behind is now 6. Kevin's going to have the blue for Sainz. We will not have the blue.

Three laps to go, Nico.

Two to go, Nico. Sainz five behind. Leader Sainz five behind.

VSC, VSC, double yellow 6-7. Stay out. Get plus positive on delta time. Russell's crashed.

I think there's debris around here. I just see debris in the middle of the track.

So we stay out.

There'll be one lap to go at the line, Nico. It's VSC. You're fine on your delta time.

So you have one lap to go.

So this is you starting your last lap, still VSC.

Behind you, Sainz is ahead of the checker.

So you're secure here, Nico. Just need to bring it around. Stay positive on delta time and Russell is still in the middle of the track in 7.

OK, that's the chequered flag, Nico. Chequered flag. That's E9. Brilliant drive.

And Kevin P10 then, no? Yes, when he comes around he'll be good. Yeah, great result. Oh nice, double whammy with the Mercedes out. Russell is out of the car. Is he OK? He's out and OK. He's in the medical car. Fuck no, that looked sketchy from the outside. Well, congrats team. Double point finish. Nice job. Didn't see that coming. Really good race driving, Nico. The tyres that you managed were really amazing, so good job. Thank you. Just super slow past the Russell incident. Medical car is still there.