00:00It's fun, you know to working on the cars that uh
00:03In in the you're trying to correlate to what these guys are feeling here
00:07What was he going to avoid at this time? He is let's see that line always made it from turn 16 17
00:12So we are told the track is clear, but just have a look for the lizard
00:16Oh, that's in the middle of the track
00:21It thinks it's an aston martin
00:23Yeah, it's like it's attracted to the aston martin, isn't it? It's a similar color. That is a stride that is
00:28Honestly that that is a stride with the purpose of laurence stroll quite frankly
00:34So maybe it's laurence the lizard that's going across the track there and i'm not surprised they've red flagged this session
00:39They are a protected animal
00:42and
00:43With that in mind and also the fact that laurence doesn't want to go anywhere
00:48That's not on the track at the moment. I actually think this is a really sensible decision now whether there is anyone
00:55On hand that can come and help laurence to a more safe place. I have no idea
01:00we've got some great marshals here in singapore some great people that run this racetrack, but whether nico there is a
01:07official
01:08lizard remover
01:09I have no idea
01:11You won't you won't have race fuel you'll put like 50 50 kilos in
01:15And then drop it down to 20 as you're going on the soft tire
01:19Or you might because the 50 kilos also allows you a lot more flexibility to do a much longer run and all these things
01:25Or you might just start straight away with a lower fuel level and just run it through the whole session max for stafford
01:30Putting together a handy lap. It's been a really nice lap property. Actually. He's driven really well
01:35The car for me looks much better than it was yesterday
01:38Goes fastest with that time nine tenths ahead of piastri who says he's happier with the car and can feel a massive difference already
01:45I wonder if he took norris's setup because norris had a good day yesterday
01:51right up there with charles leclerc who's also
01:54Always at the top of the timesheets throughout
01:56And I just wonder because piastri looked a little bit lost yesterday compared to norris
02:01But uh seems to be much happier with the car, but still everyone has extended away a whole lap
02:07I can't look better though
02:102022 is a track that takes about an hour and a half to dry
02:15Oh, that's deep into turn 10, isn't it?
02:18And there's a car taking to the outer. Oh and that actually put him off didn't it?
02:22I think wow
02:24That was very very close
02:29He was just
02:30He was a bit put off by what the car was doing on the right there the mercedes
02:34It's a brilliant street track. It really is and that was that was a
02:37nicely attacked by norris has got that style for this circuit where
02:42you're in full attack mode the whole time, but still
02:46Yeah, despite that
02:47Good effort can't beat the steppans. This is the first time we've seen
02:52A bit of pace from this mercedes since I arrived here
02:55Just I say that i've cursed it because he's had a huge snap of oversteer mid-corner in 16
03:00And a very similar moment to what he had back in fp1, uh right at the start. So despite that
03:07It's only a tenth and a half away from the steppan
03:09So that that could have been fastest lap there without that mistake in 16
03:13Nowadays the the geometry when you go to street circuit racing as you steer
03:17It softens the whole front end of the car so that you get hooked up front on the front as you're turning in the mid
03:22Corner, you know and perhaps geometry wise red bull just went a bit too far there
03:27And when he's steering max, it just goes way too way too soft on the rear and makes the back snap
03:32Oh, he just he just hit the inside barrier there and he's damaged the the left front cedar and it's sparking away
03:38That was just a misjudgment surely
03:41threading the eye of the needle around the track like this is not to be underestimated and uh, is this another
03:48Great lap from leclerc coming up. He's done it all weekend so far and he's done it
03:51Once again by a tenth of a second have found some pace and we know that I mean
03:56I know that both of them have gone much stiffer on their cars
03:59So maybe let's put them back in the in the right window
04:01And max would have lost a little bit of time there as he got onto the curb and he ended up a tenth down the shell
04:06Leclerc. Yeah, definitely. It's not ideal and it's I like that bit of curve design george russell
04:12That was I think
04:14Yeah, left rear just clocked the wall there it could be right. I just felt that
04:20When when turning it was jagged it wasn't fluid it was it was jagged it was uh
04:25Corners coming up turn and and an immediate almost like a right angle rather than a nice fluid curve rail
04:31Uh, it's what we're saying. Let's keep an eye on that left side of the wall. Does he hit it?
04:35Maybe not
04:38Yeah, it was a lock-up or or he hit it and if he hits it maybe it was on the rear but he has come back
04:43into the pits
04:45No, it wasn't he didn't hit the wall
04:46It's just the way the car sort of moved around on the braking does
04:50Maybe on the last couple of downshifts it just locked the rear momentarily
04:55We'll talk to you tomorrow about that one. Uh, lauren. Thank you ever so much indeed
04:59George russell crosses the line and goes 1.4 seconds clear of charles leclerc
05:05He finishes in second place a second behind george russell. Here's oscar piastri last time race winner in baku
05:13He goes second three tenths, uh behind george russell
05:17Lewis hamilton comes tearing around the final corner and we're about to get some answers interesting stuff from lauren mckee's telling you there crofty
05:24I think we're talking about williams, uh being the uh, the challenge for them
05:28What about aston martin and hass because they're thinking with the improvements they hope they've made overnight that they're going to be up there
05:34Trying to get that extra
05:36position
05:37nine and ten
05:38behind the top 14s
05:40Uh, thanks ever so much indeed said some harem scarer moments
05:44For oscar piastri and then we see alex albon behind charles leclerc. Is it going to get out of the way before 16?
05:50Yes, it will and what does he do with this car right over it? That's that that's the lando norris style
05:56All growing to love into the last two corners. We go to the heli shot can't get quite a good view there
06:02But uh, yeah, he does go fastest in the first round 29 6 last year's pole position was a 30.9
06:09sector
06:10Did he have a a little off george russell?
06:13Certainly did
06:15Down at turn seven. There's a nice escape road for him to uh plow
06:19on into
06:21I don't i'm not sure charles did make a mistake or not, but it could be nico russberg
06:26He needed or he needs a second
06:29Warm-up lap before he starts his flying lap. Yeah, which would be really suboptimal. Well, no, I went straight on but otherwise i'm, uh, i'm, okay
06:38Yeah, I found I found the escape road it's all good nothing to see here this track
06:43Is is a real different it's a different beast altogether. Uh, we saw
06:48Max go onto the curb in slower motion
06:51Yeah, you kind of just have to to live with it because trying to bail out
06:56Once you know you're heading for that curb is going to lead you to a concrete barrier either side of the track
07:01You're talking millimeters crofty there between the curb catching the car
07:05And riding up the curb and it just holding it in position or go a little bit over like he did
07:10What a magic performance that was last year around. We'll be looking at this long stroll here. Oh his soft tire run
07:17Locks up big locker. Yeah, just before turn 11. So that's out of 10. Oh, he's out of position
07:24Yeah, he's found himself too wide on the exit of 10 and uh,
07:29He felt like if the speed he was carrying offline like he was he wouldn't have made turn 11
07:35Lando norris picks up where he left off in fp2 set the fastest time by nearly half a second though
07:41This time wasn't quite so close was it george russell was second fastest and improved performance from mercedes oscar piastri
07:48Making it mclaren 13 max verstappen was fourth as he was 12 months ago here in singapore in final practice
07:56Charlotte club wasn't happy with the strategy that went into his final, uh flying lap
08:02Carlos sainz was two tenths of his teammate hamilton albon colopinto alonso completing the top 10
08:08joe guanyu three seconds off the pace
08:12Was the slowest of the 20 drivers?
08:15We had a few brushes with the wall, but no major damage. The drivers are all nicely dialed in
08:20We are set for qualifying under the lights. It's coming soon
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