00:00Daniel Ricciardo going through turn 12, where the crosswind hits you and the gravel trap is waiting to try and catch you out.
00:07He went wide, but not too wide.
00:09Daniel Ricciardo, I'll be struggling a little bit in the practice sessions in rear wing for this weekend.
00:15I'm not quite getting it in sync, but that's a decent lap, number 113.7 as Ricciardo crosses the line.
00:21A 112.9 from Lewis Hamilton was the fastest time in Q1 this time last year,
00:27but we've been seeing times in the practice sessions already quicker than we saw not 12 months ago, just over 12 months ago.
00:34We're a little bit later here in Spain for this particular season.
00:37Lance Stroll on the track, not breaking in to the 113's second fastest.
00:42Alonso has done a 21.6 for the first sector.
00:46Lando Norris a 21.5 and Carlos Sainz a tenth of a second quicker with a 21.4.
00:52Norris crosses the line, a 112.3, so putting the pressure on Max Verstappen there.
00:57And Fernando Alonso making his way now around where the chicane used to be to the final corner.
01:02Is this flat? That bit certainly was.
01:05And he crosses the line in a time of a 113.
01:09Leclerc, two tenths up in the middle sector.
01:12Which of these two Ferrari drivers have got enough grip to do the final sector of the lap?
01:16Leclerc goes to the top of the time on a 12.2.
01:19Here comes Sainz, and he does lose out in that last sector.
01:23So maybe took too much life outcropping in the first one third of the lap.
01:28But only a tenth and a half between the top four,
01:30as Nico Hülkenberg now goes fifth fastest for Haas once again.
01:35It's Hülkenberg, the man for a Saturday for the Haas team.
01:38But Kevin Magnussen down to 14th now, as Pierre Gasly goes fifth fastest.
01:43Gasly, fourth fastest overall during the FP2 session.
01:47George Russell now takes that fifth place.
01:49This is the impeding bit.
01:52We are seeing investigated as well.
01:54Yep.
01:55Oh, come on, yeah.
01:56Totally impeded by the Williams.
01:58Yeah, it was like that. I'll have a look.
02:02Now, he's charging the battery, you can see from the flashing red lights.
02:06And he's doing it on the racing line.
02:08Yeah, he's up a little bit.
02:10And, you know, but that personal best in the middle sector.
02:12Let's watch the run through the final corner.
02:15DRS will pop open just at the exit there.
02:18And he does get, at the moment, into the top 12.
02:22Yeah, it's an improvement, but maybe by not enough.
02:25He's actually out on track at the moment and going for another lap, we assume.
02:30Perez now will cross the line and will move up to sixth for the 1.12.4.
02:35That might make George Russell just come back in again,
02:38now that he's ahead of Sergio Perez.
02:40Valtteri Bottas goes into seventh.
02:43I'm told George Russell is on a new set of soft compound tyres,
02:47as Joe, the 1.12.8, goes eighth.
02:49And that might not be enough for him.
02:50Esteban Ocon will be the next driver to cross the line.
02:54Points finishes at the last three Spanish Grand Prix for him.
02:58And he won in GP3 on his debut here, goes seventh fastest.
03:03Alex Albon is out of qualifying.
03:06He's back in the pits at the moment and down in that bottom five.
03:10Hamilton goes quickest, that's a little bit more like it.
03:13The 1.12.1 from him.
03:15But did he have to use an extra set of new tyres there?
03:17And will that give him limited options later on?
03:20Ricciardo only 15th.
03:22Alonso's not going well here.
03:23He might find himself knocked out in Q1 at his home race,
03:28where he scored his 32nd and most recent win,
03:31where he fell on pole in the past,
03:33where he sent the crowd home very, very happy indeed.
03:35But this is not going to be good for Alonso,
03:37unless he can have a better final sector, which he does.
03:40Ninth fastest for Fernando Alonso.
03:42Will be a big sigh of relief for him.
03:45Checker flag is waving as Gasly crosses the line and goes 14th.
03:49Valtteri Bottas will be next to come around the final corner
03:53and probably into the pits.
03:54Now it's Lance Stroll, though, in that bottom five.
03:57For Aston Martin at the moment, Alonso's put himself in the top nine.
04:00Stroll goes 14th fastest.
04:03Tsunoda is improving.
04:04Sargent is improving at behind.
04:06Here comes Yuki Tsunoda for Team RB.
04:09Stays in that bottom five, along with Hülkenberg,
04:11one of the early pace setters.
04:13And Nico Hülkenberg, he comes to cross the line now.
04:16Goes 12th fastest.
04:17...for Ocon, who is making his way around that final corner now
04:21and will cross the line with a time of 1.12.
04:25Three new tyres for him.
04:27And therefore, 9 tenths up on Lance Stroll.
04:30As you would expect, Perez goes to 10th quicker.
04:34Puts that Ocon lap, I think, into a bit more perspective, that.
04:37It was a decent lap, that, from Esteban Ocon.
04:39His teammate, Pierre Gasly, who popped up into the top five at one stage
04:44in the first part of qualifying,
04:46has done a decent time in the middle part of the lap here.
04:49Gasly now goes quickest and ahead of Perez.
04:52Here's Charles Leclerc, then.
04:54Really good first sector for him.
04:56Oscar Piastri, brilliant middle sector.
04:5828.6 for Oscar Piastri.
05:01Leclerc in the middle sector to the 28.8.
05:05He crosses the line, goes quickest with a 1.12.0.
05:08His teammate, Carlos Sainz, has gone quicker through the first two sectors.
05:12And Oscar Piastri isn't going to be too far away from Leclerc's time
05:15when he crosses the line.
05:17And he beats it by nearly three one-hundredths of a second.
05:20That is a better lap there from Oscar Piastri,
05:23who's lagged a little bit behind his teammates so far.
05:25Now ahead of Leclerc.
05:27Not, though, ahead of Carlos Sainz.
05:291.11.8. We are into the 1.11s now.
05:33Verstappen quickest in the middle sector.
05:35Lando Norris is about on par with Max Verstappen in the lap.
05:39By two one-thousandths of a second, goes quicker than Carlos Sainz.
05:43And as I said, Norris on a par with Max Verstappen.
05:47Here comes Verstappen, though, two tenths in the final sector.
05:51So Verstappen to the top of the time, into the 1.11s for that leading pack.
05:55Gasly's time holding up well still.
05:57Hamilton on a used set.
05:59So Hamilton 12.6. Ignore that for now.
06:02Let's watch George Russell, his first two sectors.
06:05Decent first sector, down in the middle.
06:08And the last sector as well, down on Verstappen.
06:11So he ends up half a second down.
06:13This time it was bad.
06:15Okay, copy.
06:17It had been used before, of course, through the first two sectors for Hamilton.
06:22Joe's improving, but not by enough, you would imagine.
06:25He goes second fastest, albeit second fastest to within about three tenths of a second of Verstappen.
06:32Ocon is up on the time that he needs for the top ten.
06:36That's his target there, and I think he believes that he can absolutely do it.
06:39Nico Hülkenberg's drop time in the middle sector.
06:42Currently 11 fastest and not improving on that.
06:45Gasly's improving through the first sector.
06:47Perez improving, but only by a tenth of a second compared to his previous laps.
06:52Ocon goes seventh fastest.
06:54Sergio Perez will be crossing the line soon after Pierre Gasly.
06:58And Perez fighting to get into that top ten.
07:01Gasly trying to improve his time.
07:02He does, and goes ahead of his teammate Esteban Ocon.
07:06All eyes now on Sergio Perez.
07:08Can he get to Q3 at the moment? Yes, he can.
07:11Seventh fastest for Sergio Perez.
07:13George Russell is the driver at risk, but he's going along very nicely indeed.
07:16Fernando Alonso is down in 14th currently, and he's improving.
07:21But is this going to be enough for a Q3 appearance for Fernando Alonso
07:25in what is his 21st visit to the circuit of Catalunya in a Formula 1 car?
07:30It's not enough for Q3. He misses out by 14 thousandths of a second
07:35as George Russell goes into the top three behind his teammate Lewis Hamilton
07:39and Max Verstappen with the fastest time.
07:43He's got Leclerc behind him, but he chucks it into the last one there.
07:46Doesn't use too much of the road on the way out.
07:4828.5 middle sector, 11.6 for the lap time.
07:52He's two tenths up, Crofty, on Sainz's middle sector.
07:56Right, and Oskar Piastri dropping a little bit through the first two sectors.
08:00So Verstappen with a 1.11.6 on the board.
08:02Last year's pole sitter sitting pretty with that.
08:05Esteban Ocon across the line, second fastest.
08:08Carlos Sainz across the line, second fastest.
08:10Two and a half tenths Max Verstappen has on Carlos Sainz
08:14as Oskar Piastri crosses the line and slots in behind the Ferrari of Sainz.
08:19He has been on pole before, of course.
08:21Lando Norris, don't forget, in Sochi in, what, 2021, the Russian Grand Prix.
08:28Is this provisional pole for Lando this afternoon?
08:30No, it's not. By just over a tenth of a second,
08:33he loses time comparable to Verstappen in that final sector.
08:37Leclerc will be the next driver to cross the line.
08:40Is this Charles Leclerc's moment?
08:42Only second row for him.
08:45And one of the two Mercedes, Hamilton and Russell.
08:48They've got about four corners to go.
08:49Lewis Hamilton, six-time pole sitter here at the Spanish Grand Prix.
08:54Next driver to cross the line.
08:56And it's third fastest, tenth and a half off for Lewis Hamilton.
08:59George Russell will be next to cross the line.
09:01Second row for him.
09:03What's Lewis doing, prepping that lap?
09:06Just, it's fine. We'll talk about it afterwards.
09:10Head in the game.
09:14George Russell, I think, was intimating that Lewis was going a little bit too slowly
09:18for his liking on his out lap.
09:20Marcus Dudley saying that we'll focus on that afterwards.
09:22First few rows of the grid.
09:24Up into 12, as I said, the highest point of the track.
09:27A lot of understeer. Yeah, he's just, oh no!
09:29He's just understeered straight off.
09:31I was just about to say, he's carrying a lot of understeer.
09:33Is that yellow going to, yeah, it's gone green.
09:36Yeah, no costly for Gasly because he was on an out lap,
09:38but very costly for Oscar Piastri because that was his only lap in Q3.
09:43Carlos Sainz, who was on the front row last year, crosses the line now
09:47and goes on to the front row provisionally in 2024.
09:51Just six one-hundredths between himself and Verstappen.
09:54Here comes Leclerc. He's now on the front row.
09:57And by what, a few thousandths of a second goes ahead of his teammate.
10:02While all that's happening, the man that's already on pole
10:05is going significantly quicker.
10:07But Lando Norris has matched Max Verstappen in the first sector on this latest lap.
10:13Verstappen, to put more distance between himself and his rivals,
10:16and he has done so.
10:18Is Lando Norris about to get won over on his really good mate?
10:22As Carlos Sainz goes seventh fastest.
10:25George Russell is only just off the pace for Mercedes.
10:28Norris to the line now. Can he do it? He can!
10:31Lando Norris gets polled by two one-hundredths of a second.
10:36But can Hamilton and Russell try and deny him?
10:39Hamilton only on the second row for Mercedes.
10:42George Russell polled last time out in his second row here.
10:46And that is Lando's day when it comes to a Saturday.
10:51Amber Claren and the head boss, Zac Brown, start the celebrations.
10:57We have now had four pole-sitters in four successive races for different pole-sitters.
11:06And the latest is Lando.
11:08It was only Lando who got ahead of Max Verstappen.
11:11How about a pole?
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