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00:00Yeah, my point being though that they must have tried the front when they're running here at a previous race before Monaco
00:05and they're happy with it, but they're not bringing an updated point here.
00:08And also, it's not just it flexes, it doesn't flex.
00:11They tweak that variation of flexibility for different circuits that they go to.
00:16Because for some tracks that you go to, you don't actually want the front wing to be flexing that much in a high-speed form.
00:22Mechanically make it hard.
00:24As I'm turning, when I was in the garage it was very heavy, a bit weird.
00:30George Russell finding things already.
00:33Speaking of picking someone back, in the gravel there for the Haas.
00:37Rio Hirakawa.
00:38So I have heard that Christian Horner is the most impressive lobbyist in the last two months.
00:43Really? You surprised me.
00:44He's done a phenomenal lobbying job, I have heard.
00:46So many of the teams having to try out these new front wings, the drivers, wanted to get all their time in it as well.
00:52Exactly.
00:53You're going to want all the data you can.
00:55So we took another look at there, Rio Hirakawa's trip through the gravel.
00:59Yeah, into turn 10. Just losing the rear momentarily.
01:08Yeah, that's all right. Sorry, I'm sorry.
01:11No worries.
01:13And Rio has got Le Mans 24 hours coming up in a few weeks, of course, for Toyota.
01:23And hence there's that collaboration with Toyota Gazoo Racing and Haas.
01:25And they're all great drivers.
01:26This is one of them, yeah.
01:28Yeah.
01:29Liam Lawson getting caught up there.
01:31What the? What was that?
01:34Yeah, clearly it wasn't cold.
01:35As we know from Monaco, you've got to have that awareness from your engineering side as well to let you know that the car's coming down.
01:43He's saying, we've seen the data, we should do this with the differential.
01:46Max is going, well, the feeling in the car, I'm not too sure.
01:49I feel like it's diff seven.
01:52They'll have a multitude of those as we Norris go P1 for now in the 15s.
01:57In saying that, Anto, just tell me, please.
01:59I'm not quite sure how it is this year.
02:00Are they both flat the last two quarters?
02:02In qualifying, yes, they will be.
02:04And they already were last year.
02:05That's boring.
02:06So then we want to...
02:07Oh, that was close.
02:08I went there for Lewis Hamilton.
02:10It's just so difficult to see in the rear wing mirrors.
02:13You don't see much at all.
02:15So it's very hard for a driver to always be aware of what's going on there.
02:19He thought the gap was there to start off with, both on an out lap or a slow lap at least.
02:24I once went into his bedroom to negotiate a contract.
02:28He didn't.
02:29I love Flavio's stories.
02:31Come on, elaborate.
02:32Absolutely terrified.
02:33Because he's fierce.
02:35He's fierce.
02:36Franco yesterday was singing his praises.
02:38I mean, you would.
02:39He's your boss.
02:40You're going to sing his praises, aren't you?
02:41But he was saying, you know, he's brought Fernando through.
02:42He's brought all these great names through into the sport.
02:44You know, he's a great man to have as your mentor.
02:46Been out doing some fan events as well as Fernando so far this weekend.
02:50He's been busy.
02:51George Russell goes purple in the middle sector right now on the medium tyres.
02:54He goes to the top of the times of the 1.147.
02:56So we will start to see these times come down.
02:59Again, faster than that.
03:00And through Monaco where your eyes are flickering and you're taking in all these inputs and reacting like Leclerc and just dancing the car.
03:07And it's really phenomenal human performance essentially.
03:11And again, green in sectors one and two, Halkenberg.
03:14But that means he can go fastest in sector three.
03:17But no one putting it together.
03:18Good stability on the rear.
03:19That looked like he had it.
03:20Turn 12.
03:21A little twitch of oversteer.
03:22The wind's usually quite strong there.
03:24And also the tyres overheating at this point in the lap as well is not your friend.
03:29In the final corner, we talked about that one.
03:31Is it flat out or not?
03:32It looked like it wasn't even using all the road on the exit.
03:34So Leclerc sits at the top comfortably now.
03:37You saw some teammate work in Monaco between the two Williams drivers though.
03:40Yeah.
03:41Yeah, of course.
03:42What did you make for that?
03:43Well, they did what they had to do.
03:44It was horrible to watch but they wanted to secure those positions.
03:48Max Verstappen impressed that Leclerc was pretty close actually.
03:52As he heads towards the final corner.
03:54Sounded like that was maybe just a little lift there.
03:57Norris, two purple sectors.
03:59Hamilton's so close to the top there with Verstappen.
04:03But yeah, we're keeping an eye on where Norris is as well.
04:06Fastest in sector one and sector two.
04:08Let's see as he comes around towards the end of the final corner of this lap.
04:12What time is he going to do?
04:17Oh, and he goes quickest.
04:18Purple all three sectors.
04:20That's number 1137.
04:22Just three tenths ahead of Max Verstappen in the Red Bull.
04:25Ahead of Lewis Hamilton in the Ferrari.
04:36What's happened here then to Oscar Piastri?
04:39That's turn 10.
04:40So it's what I said when we were on board with Leclerc.
04:43How you pick up the throttle on the exit of turn 10.
04:45You don't want the rear end coming round.
04:48That's exactly what happened to Piastri there.
04:50And at any moment like that, you're just overheating.
04:53You cause mini spikes of temperature building up.
04:55Lots of flowvis on the back of that Mercedes.
04:58What do you see Ant?
04:59Anything interesting?
05:00Lots of flowvis on the back of the Mercedes.
05:01I was pointing out because Rachel had her eyes buried in the lap times.
05:05Thanks.
05:06Thanks.
05:07Thanks for pointing out the back of the car.
05:09Right, what's going on?
05:10I'll give you that one.
05:11What's happened to me?
05:12No, I had middle-bound single bottoming entry nine, which was not nice.
05:17So that's understood, yeah.
05:18We can see that Oli reports something similar.
05:21That's horrible.
05:22And that can be just the car running too steep.
05:25Let us know if you need a flap adjust.
05:27I just need the engine going normal on the straights like the first run.
05:32We'll have to try a strap free if you prefer.
05:35No, I just don't want to lose two tenths every straight.
05:39I need to check what is going on with the car.
05:43Something wrong.
05:44We ride on board with him now down towards turn ten.
05:49What's happened here?
05:50Williams as well doing the same.
05:52Just the medium and the hard tyres.
05:54Yeah, big old lock up there.
05:56So tyres, I think he spent the longest time out there.
06:01He was one of the first ones originally to do his lap time, his best lap time,
06:05and then went on straight into the long runs.
06:08How this race could pan out with the temperatures being as hot as they are.
06:12Great slow-mo shots of Lando Norris climbing the kerbs there.
06:17And then you look at the energy going through the car.
06:20I love it when you slow this sport down.
06:22Then you can start to continue putting your foot down and release the clutch.
06:26It's definitely hard to get it off the line.
06:28Well, Lando Norris tops the time, though, in that session with a 1.137
06:33just ahead of Max Verstappen.
06:34Three and a half tenths ahead of him in second quickest.
06:37Then the two Ferraris, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.
06:40They are half a second back of Lando Norris.
06:44Then comes Oscar Piastri with a 1.142.
06:49Then it's Liam Lawson, Holly Behrman, Isaac Hadja, Yuki Tsunoda in the other Red Bull.
06:54And Pierre Gasly, the quicker of the two Alpine drivers out there today.
06:58George Russell did the most laps in that session.
07:0132 in total, didn't put the soft tyre on.
07:03And he is 11th quickest in the Mercedes.
07:06Then comes Lance Stroll in the Aston Martin.
07:09Lando Alonso having issues getting out of the car with five minutes still left to run.
07:12Nico Hülkenberg, the quicker of the two Salva drivers.
07:15Then Carlos Sainz also didn't put the soft tyres on.
07:1715th quickest ahead of Portiletto.
07:19Ria Hirakawa and Victor Martins, the junior drivers in that session.
07:22Kimi Antonelli was in between them.
07:24And Franco Colapinto, the slowest during FP1 today.
07:27But some issues for them to sort before we come back for second practice later on here in Barcelona.
07:32Well done.
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