00:00We might well see what Lando Norris has got for us then on this first bit of running as he breaks for the first
00:07corner the left hand at 90 degree right angle to the left and you don't get very long and there is a yellow flag for a
00:14Stopped Esteban Ocon in the Alpine and that's just coming. It's on the way really to the start finish straight
00:21He's stuck in between the kink of 17 and 18. His teammate Gasly's just about got a problem
00:27Okay, I understood
00:31This is a really not proving a good weekend for them
00:35Let's listen into this
00:53And it's gone, yeah
00:55Just lost power. He's able to change gear. So it's not hydraulics
00:59It's just lost power
01:01And to a halt Esteban Ocon comes well
01:05It's good to see him getting out of the car
01:08But a red flag out then in the free practice three no lap times on the board just yet
01:18Very light drops of rain understood so far. We have not seen them affect the track at any point
01:26The
01:27Astray then with the latest weather update. We have had a few light spots throughout the day this morning
01:34That's why the regulations are tweaked and designed Bernie. Yeah, exactly. And I totally agree from a recent standpoint
01:40I do think the the 2026 regulations are going to be so important from a sustainability point of view
01:47You know, the sustainable fuel is a mass will have a massive impact on all of our lives
01:51Hopefully, I'm not gonna get started when he seems to do because I'll just get on my soul save that for another pop
01:55Yeah, I'll just go on a rant about how I don't like them
02:00Well, let's say we let's see, yeah, let's see how that all pans out
02:03I'm sure that discussion will be had a time and time again
02:05Towards the end of this season and indeed in the build-up is still 20 25 to get through yet
02:09Lots of track action now, though
02:10Pretty much everybody out on track bar Norris Ocon no longer in the session and Olly Bama's not out there at the moment
02:16Everybody else out there Max Verstappen
02:18Fastest just over half a tenth of a second with a 145 to they're pushing on with the soft tire runs
02:25You know, they can get valuable data and information out of this early in the session
02:29This is Albon to the top of the times 44 3. It's still slower. Isn't it? So slower than what we saw
02:36Yesterday point that Ocon caused that earlier red flag disruption
02:40So although it won't have hurt the soft tire too much. It definitely changes your preparation for the second set
02:46so you want to try and have that soft tire lap as
02:50Close to what you will have in qualifying as possible and doing an out to having a red flag
02:55I'm then doing an out again isn't the same. Well, very close from Max Verstappen
03:01Coming through turn 15. That was where Charlotte Claire found the wall yesterday to Hamilton personal bests
03:09All throughout the lap. He'll have to ease up though coming down towards the start finish straight because that's where the yellow flags are
03:14Indeed, he won't be able to set the lap time because the red flag is out
03:19again for Oliver Berman
03:23We believe who has had an incident out on track down at her when we might just see him here
03:30There he is and when he has yeah had contact with the barrier. He looks really angry with himself. Here we go
03:35So he's he's struggling to make the car too much speed then try to bail out of it. He's bailed out too late
03:42He's bailed out of it way too late. He knows he's got it wrong
03:46You see a smack the steering wheel at this point turning and turning and he's too fast
03:51He's way wide at the apex and he needed to bail out of that
03:56He tried to hang on to it too long thinking. Oh, I'll just I'll try and make it try and make it
04:00he need to bail out half a second earlier and
04:03And yeah, well you have to keep in mind is the runoff area obviously doesn't have as much quickly, okay
04:13It's a car damaged
04:16Yeah
04:18Other than time
04:21So sorry
04:23Austria so back you though is a highly likely place and this is kind of the reason why
04:32The road
04:35It's just a messy situation there was three cars
04:38Altogether then after not a lot of running in this session Lando Norris has finally got a lap time on the board and he's gone
04:44quickest
04:46144 to Albon though getting a
04:48Wonderful toe in front of him down towards at the start finish straight from George Russell in the car ahead
04:54Fastest of any way the middle sector six tenths clear at the top for Alex Albon
04:59Immediately displaced though by Charlotte Claire who goes quicker just over a tenth and a half in the Ferrari with a 143
05:08Drs popping open the stop and faster than anybody in the middle sector and again
05:14Losing up in the last sector there 25 1 1 0 for him didn't have anyone in front of it
05:19So two tents again in the last sectors that trend from yesterday in the staff
05:25Seems to be continuing
05:28Across the line for Sergio Perez who continues to showcase his good form and finds time to go
05:35fastest
05:37Redbull really need strong points on the board from both drivers this weekend because they're more in danger of losing the
05:43Constructors at this stage than they potentially are of the drivers can overtake it on you because the slipstream is powerful
05:48Drs has been extended as George has a little hint of a lockup and goes into the runoff area
05:54But I think for me
05:56The biggest benefit of qualifying on the front row
06:00The first two rows is getting safely through these two corners because you say you want to be ahead
06:04You make it safely through turn one
06:06But then you've got turn two to contend with we see the likes of Fernando Alonso starting further back coming into this corner
06:13Horrible
06:18And Russell really not a happy bunny
06:21Mercedes and that was the one that they flagged as being being particularly good
06:25so they think that Piazza is bang on the money and
06:30The thing who is is a charlatan who's gone to the top of the time is we see what happened to Gasly?
06:35Perez goes well around here. How can one track in particular?
06:39Bring out a driver's form more so than others. How can you have a driver favorite track?
06:45I think it's to do with this with with this. It's a layout of the track isn't it? It's to do with the type of corner
06:51And it's funny
06:53Come back to this. Let's look at what happens to Gasly here because we're coming up to any
06:57So he's just come out of the pits going very slowly to return to gets to turn three and then just can't get the car
07:03slowed down
07:04Enough so I wonder you know, he came out maybe the brakes still cold brakes perhaps because he's coming straight out of the pits
07:12Once we get into qualifying a little later on. I tell you we haven't seen much
07:16about this man Carlos signs
07:20It was huge
07:25Crazy
07:27Which one the Red Bulls was that Perez he did try and get out of the way
07:31But it was too late middle sector kind of matching Oscar Piastri and a little bit quicker actually in
07:37The sector one, let's see what Russell has got in the Mercedes when he comes across the line
07:42Perhaps a distant so my lines time a lot of time
07:46The Haas mechanics can just pop out of their garage turn left and then it's about 20 meters over to where all the Olli Berman's car
07:53Is and they can just get happens to be on the other side of the track
07:55But they can just get the the guys to wheel it over if that front left tire isn't too
08:02Squiffy in terms of its direction and they could start the repairs. They'll get that car fixed in time for qualifying. No, no problem
08:09Let's hope so. Thank you very much, Ted
08:11And thank you for Karina Bernie in the commentary box with me as well and that this is how the session ended
08:16Russell fast is ahead of Leclerc and Norris
08:19Piastri Verstappen signs Perez all up there as well qualifying could well be tight in the second half of the field though
08:25Times to find for the likes of Fernando Alonso in the Aston Martin
08:29spicy fight between RB
08:31Not forgetting the Hass of Nico Hulkenberg now with all of the Berman crashing out in that session with work to do and for Esteban
08:38Ocon and the Alpine work to do as well not long to go though until we qualify next and I think it's gonna be an
08:45absolute cracker
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