00:00We'll see as the session unfolds, you know, it's still early days different tires here in the comparison
00:05We think the soft is probably well four five tens on on terms of peak performance quicker than the medium
00:13But uh, what's it last corner? I understand
00:16Max yesterday was of a view of like whatever we're doing here. We're not learning anything
00:21This is this is not working out. I might as well just come a box now and gp will the team radio was like
00:27Come on max a little bit of a second bait
00:30Can you um, get me a knee pad prepared for the next run?
00:34Have some knee pain
00:36Yeah, copy that
00:39He's obviously giving his knee a little whack over a curb or something or falling over plain tennis here's carlos science who would
00:46Who would dearly love the sweet taste of a podium finish in his home race
00:49Which he has not managed in his career as yet 10th off george russell as he crosses the line
00:54And we'll start to see these times get a significantly faster as this session goes on
01:00george russell
01:09Two drivers now wanting a little bit more protection on the knees
01:17Into fire are we going to see a lock-up?
01:20Yes
01:25Watch a lot of that's impressive things. Here's oscar piastri on his latest push lap and it's a push lap on the medium tires
01:33Uh, that's well, we'll see where it ends up before we make a comparison drs opens temporarily
01:40Uh eight fastest for oscar piastri. Um, he goes well behind his teammate
01:45lando norris again nine tenths difference
01:51Copy
01:53Right, so george russell still with foam issues, uh in his uh cockpit
01:59not speed issues, uh
02:01Did another lap on the soft that was nowhere near the 1 30
02:04Here in turn three you see him just the heads just you can't fight the g-force time and time again
02:08Despite all the exercises they do exactly on their neck muscles
02:13And sorry and it's mid-season as well when your absolute race match fit I should say
02:19No better gym in the world right here we go
02:21Then as piastri heads towards us down the hill we go and it's quite a steep
02:26Decline there towards turn one if the cameras doesn't really pick it up through turn one
02:31You see a little snap there from the car through turn one itself and as he backed out of it already
02:35Yes, he has from that small moment. Wow
02:38So once again oscar piastri not quite getting the best from the car straight away
02:44We're about to see it here. Watch this as he comes into
02:47Turn seven your favorite corner might be corner. Yeah
02:52Just turns in there
02:54And then just bends out of it
02:56I think he turned in a little bit late because he had a car on the left hand side
02:59It just put him off visually before turning into the corner
03:03Then he picked up a little bit of understeer and just couldn't get on the power early enough. He's really annoyed by that
03:08Yeah, but i'm surprised he still didn't finish the lap and fastest overall
03:13as you would expect from
03:15The first of the front runners on a proper attack lap on the soft tire later on into the session the rear just
03:22Arguing a little bit for him through turn 12 as we've often seen with a tailwind
03:27And then that final corner
03:29Yeah, a nice use of curb as well brings it to the line one final burst of drs and a purple sector as well
03:35Not going to be good enough probably to see him through this session sitting on top like he is at the moment
03:41But I think a really respectable lap time for an old set of time
03:44Let's see what happens to oscar piastri here. I think lando went a bit wide
03:48I saw a puff of dust but not as wide as his teammate oscar piastri went and that ruined oscar's lap
03:55Which is good enough for seventh fastest, but he lost round about six tenths in the final set sergeant to cross the line now
04:02and
04:03Stays 13th hamilton has blitzed the middle sector
04:07With the best time so far he's got absolutely no one around in perfect conditions to try and set the fastest lap so far
04:13Yeah, i've been watching the on board throughout this lap, but on in the helmet camera now
04:18He is hustling
04:19But I feel like there's an energy to the way lewis is driving the car that we didn't see in canada
04:24I feel like this is the lewis hamilton who can
04:28Sniffers are not great final sector. They're dropping three tenths off and hamilton just tiptoeing around. He did go
04:34Into the gravel I am told
04:38What's going on here
04:41I'm, not sure. He should be just on a cool-down lap. That's the replay. Does he go a little bit too wide?
04:52Who he might have impeded a bit yeah and i'm trying to apologize actually touched
05:00Okay, I think he's alone on the track
05:04Oh
05:06Watch his hands. Ah
05:10I definitely ran out into him on purpose clean look through 12 didn't get any
05:14Um any pop of dust there, but we didn't see if he had any snappy oversteers
05:18We'll see when the lap time comes up what that does and he goes quickest by three one hundredths of a second
05:2621.9 in the final sector carlos sainz is on top but his former toro rosso teammate max verstappen is going pretty well
05:34Through the first couple of sectors and that looked neat through turn 12 as well right on the wide line and not going too far over
05:40Hamilton, by the way did go over and into the gravel on that lap that we saw currently fourth fastest and make that fifth
05:47As max verstappen pops up in the third seven one hundred separating the top three
05:53It was five one hundred separating the top three at the end of second practice yesterday
05:59Three the magic number for sergio perez. He's got a three-place grid penalty, but only goes seven
06:04This has been a nice a typical kind of the claire lap. Where was he? Was he off there though?
06:10I'd say he was just on the line
06:12But let's have a little look he's carrying on. Anyway, this is steady there. No, no, that was that was nice
06:18Yeah, he's he's absolutely hustled this car on this lap
06:22No break again there and the rear really got light through the last corner
06:25Oh, this is time though in that, uh in that turn 12
06:29But he's just he was losing grip as he went on too quick in the first two sectors
06:34And I think he's gone deep a bit too deep here at 10
06:38We want to see where the front tire is the replay at the moment of leclerc. So
06:42Wow. Oh, yeah, that is an old age
06:46Yes, we've seen it
06:50Did they actually touch
06:53They did touch you've got lando norris who's got every right to be there
06:58And leclerc has just got way too close to him and eventually made contact
07:04And lando's not pushing
07:06No, no, but he's going to the left
07:08I don't understand what leclerc's done there. There's loads of space. Okay, just you just drove into me
07:14I think i've got damage. He's gonna get a penalty for that leclerc. Okay understood
07:18He's definitely gonna go see the stewards. I would imagine
07:21I don't know. I can't see a situation where he wouldn't
07:24He's part of science though trying to thread his way through
07:27He was on drs and everything. He yeah, he was going for a lap. He's gonna push that
07:33Carlos science fastest in the final practice session from lando norris and charles leclerc norris leclerc
07:41Verstappen hamilton stroll all going off to see the stewards george. Russell was fifth fastest tenth and a half of carlos science
07:48But there's probably improvement to come from norris and piastri and hamilton on their fastest laps
07:54Alex albon, but a really good lap for williams up in eighth place fernando alonso putting aston martin
07:59Into the top 10 logan sergeant 1.7 seconds off the pace. We had no yellow flags
08:04We had no red flags. It was another clean session
08:07Well clean in terms of flags, but not in terms of what was going on between some of the drivers
08:13Might be penalties to come better tune in for qualifying a little bit later
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