Radio check.

Subtract temp still 40.

That's like 8 degrees higher than we planned, no?

Still with the same wing as the other car.

Yeah, I've been thinking about being... I was thinking about potentially putting the wrong line.

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Especially with it being a new tyre.

Well, yeah, I'll let you make that call.

I think potentially put two in.

Yeah, just as planned.

OK, so a little bit much, but I think you've got scope up to close that up.

Do I have drinks in the car or not? No, but take those out. So I can take the shoe out? Yeah, if you can get rid of it then.

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Clutch was on target.

Lewis will go for two burnouts. Two burnouts.

Last car approaching the grid.

OK, so red flag, red flag. Certainly overtaking at standard delta.

It's just now off a track at turn 3, some barrier damage. That's going to take a bit to repair. Driver OK.

Can I stay into the pitlane and stay in the fast lane?

Can I stay in the shade? Just make sure the car is in the fast lane.

OK Lewis, we'll just get you out of the car and then if you want to pop over, we'll get on Instacom.

Was I on target?

Do a quick second phase, second release.

Same burnouts.

We're at target 2 and we'll take a view on casings and we'll update to turn 16.

Are we same wing as the other car? Affirm.

Mike, do you think you're seeing brake balance settings?

1-0 with me. You should go down that extra 1-0.

Yeah, I'm happy to go for it.

Tested.

So down one more. Yeah, copy.

Car behind on new as well, right?

And Lewis, we're confirming two burnouts.

Last car approaching the grid.

Tsunoda car behind at point 8.

Eight. Leclerc point six ahead.

DRS has been enabled. Gap to Leclerc at 1.1. You've got Tsunoda 1.8 behind.

Mate lost to Leclerc. Turn 8 mid-speed.

Gap turn clear at 1.1. George now, the car behind at 2.1 seconds.

1.3. Last lap he was a 37.8. George, a 37.7. Gap to him at 1.8 behind.

Main loss to George at turn 14. It's about a tenth and a half there.

Think about a little bit more management at turn 8.

Gap ahead of 1.4 and it's 1.5 behind. Leclerc 38.2, George 38.1.

Lewis, if you could update your switch with your tag level.

Gap 1.5 ahead, 1.7 behind.

Close to understeer. Thanks for this, guys.

The surface temp balance looks pretty good. Remember, this will be a quite long stint.

Dropping some of the lift and coast will also help me balance.

I don't know where everybody's at.

Only losses, exit 14, exit turn 9. George was at 38.2, as was Leclerc.

France is just so hot.

And we're seeing high deck on the medium runners.

So Leclerc, 39.0.

And we're happy with the beaming change.

And cars are going to be stopping soon.

Fernando Leclerc at 39.2.

He drove it a lot quicker than me. I've got too much understeer. Crap, two holes.

OK, copy. Gap ahead of 1.9. You've got 0.5 behind.

You see that turn 5?

Okay, so we'll let George by and let us know if it's 16 or into 1.

OK, set it to 16, please.

Lewis, we've got Norris behind. Three and a half seconds. He's just stopped. He's on a new hard tyre. He is currently in the mid 35s.

Tyres aren't very good either.

George at 38.5.

So a gap of one and a half seconds ahead and behind.

So expect Norris to have a DRS this time on the offset strategy.

There's a lot more I can say for me, right?

Yeah, copy that Lewis. So we've got Verstappen in the pitlane, so he'll be exiting now. So just Verstappen pit exit.

That's Perez in the car behind.

Tyres are dropping. Front right step. OK, copy.

So, he's got cars in our pit window, Magnussen leading it 39.7 for him.

It's the front temperature that's an issue for me.

Next time, boy, we'll have a look.

It's still turning for now.

OK, copy. So, Sainz is a car behind.

Change of strategy.

Copy, Lucio. We're just waiting for the window to clear.

Just keep using the tyres. Alonso is the car behind on 6 lap hold medium, so he's 36.8.

So slow, mate. Turning A5.

Sir Magnussen, who's in our window, is 39.3.

And we have Alonso car behind.

Can we change strategy or not? Affirm.

We have Piastri car behind you. I've got a flap of plus two for the next one.

ZPF Chicago Bionic, we are racing you.

I get it, so we'll box-box.

I think I have Hulkenberg at 4 seconds.

DRS online. Quicker at turn 11. Standby.

So target lap time will be 36.5, 36.5 and if you go HPP 1 position 8, 1 position 8.

How did I lose so much time?

Just traffic at the degradation.

Where is our weakest? Last sector. Last stint.

Looks like mostly high speed, understeer limitation.

I'm going to update target lap time. Sir, George doing a 35.1.

OK, let's... George, it was 35.7 last lap time.

I only lost at turn 8.

Starting to look after Riz.

That was the pace.

Pace is strong. George is at 35.8.

We've got a couple of purple sectors last couple of laps.

So last lap, George, was 37.3 in last position at turn Norris.

Gap now at 3.8.

Increasing lift on coast will help the rear surface tabs.

Gap at 3.8, George. He was same lap time. Area of layoffs turned 13.14.

George Russell, 36.5.

George Russell, 36.8.

Bridge line is better.

George, 36.7.

So, wider line looks better but it's small.

George, 36.4.

George, 36.7.

Turn 9 at mid-speed.

It won't be too long, Lewis, if you could give us a balance check.

Balance is good. We're probably up 1-0.

George, you're at 36.5.

OK, copy. Yeah, we're just monitoring what's happening around us. Gap is George at 3.1.

George has a 36.5.

Sainz has just left the pits behind two seconds on you.

Set aside car behind.

So, George in the pitlane now.

To a extent, I don't know.

Let us know how the tyres are.

So the stop will be soon. That's how you do. Yeah, the tyres are so good.

OK, so we just use the tyres.

OK Lewis, so we'll box-box. Is this pace no good? No, it's not good enough. I don't think the tyres had it, so box-box.

We'll be pushing on exit. Target lap time is going to be low 34s. You're all clear.

So this looks like the quickest tyre.

That's a gap ahead. I've lost even more time.

Yeah, it looks like we lost a bit of time on the in lap.

So, gap 9.3, your purple middle sector, Georgia, 34.5.

So, Lewis, we've got about a second and a half to Alonso. He is about 15 seconds up the road. He'll be close at the end.

We have a double yellow down at turn 9.

So, yellow, yellow, turn 8. Looks like that's clearing now. Clear. Gravel on exit, turn 9.

So the gap is George at 6.8.

Correction, that was 7.2.

So George was 35.3 with the yellow.

Currently forecast to catch Alonso-Piastri with four laps to go.

Gaps, George, now 5.7.

It was 34.8 last lap.

I love this pace.

This is good pace, Lewis. Joint quickest car on track. Only loss. You've got 5.6 ahead.

George was at 34.9.

Gap to Alonso down to 8.5.

We had track limits at turn 14, track limits.

Alonso, Piastri, 35.6. George will be interacting with them soon.

So gap's George down to 4.9. Alonso is about six and a half ahead.

George, 35.3. Alonso, 35.9.

My luck is ketchup.

Copy, Lewis. Still catching. So that gap is down to 5.8, Alonso. We've got Piastri behind him.

Check last two laps at turn 11. Going shorter line, slower. Copy.

So, gap ahead now 3.7. George tucks up behind Piastri.

And on that turn 11, it's marginal, tighter line looks a little bit slower, if anything. George 2.3 ahead, battling with Piastri.

We've also got Gasly in this bunch. He is getting blue flags. He's getting blue flags, Gasly.

Gap ahead. Gap out at 2.5.

And it's two laps remaining, 2.3 seconds ahead.

Lewis, we can go strat mode 5 to the end.

Final lap, Piastri 1.5 ahead.

Use overtake.

Don't pass away, mate.

OK Lewis, so that's P9.

So there's a strong final stint on that medium, mate. I think we picked up a bit of front wing end plate damage on that restart, just with the tap from Leclerc, so I think that's probably hurt us a little bit at stint 1.

We have HPP 1, position 12, 1 position 12 and then strat 14.