00:00It's part of the process of them figuring each other out and working out their way of doing things.
00:05I always think, as a driver, you've got to be careful to just go in there and try and change too much.
00:16And that will come with results. So far, he's down 8-3 in qualifying to Leclerc.
00:20He's not had a podium in a Grand Prix yet.
00:24So that trust still hasn't yet fully been formed.
00:27And you can see Lando Norris going wide at the final chicane.
00:31And on the subject of podiums, Lewis has never failed to finish on the podium in the opening 10 races of any of his previous 18 seasons in Formula 1.
00:40Lance Stroll is going a little bit slowly at the moment because he might just have hit the wall as his teammate goes second fastest, Fernando Alonso.
00:48And that is the other Aston Martin, and he has definitely hit the wall.
00:52Now, Lance Stroll comes into this race after missing Barcelona because of his soreness and his uncomfortable feelings in his wrists and in his hands.
01:06A legacy of the bike accident that he had that he battled so brilliantly to recover from at the start of last season.
01:14And, well, he says he's still feeling a bit of soreness, especially in his right hand.
01:20He didn't take it out of his pocket when he was in the press conference yesterday and very much keeping that hand closely guarded.
01:27Let's just have a little look, Karun, at what's happened here.
01:30Oh, when he got onto the curb, and it was just a briefest glance, wasn't it?
01:36Yeah, I mean, a brief glance at a reasonable speed, but he's just understood, just driven into the wall.
01:41He's just driven wide into the wall.
01:44I mean, there was plenty of time and opportunity to back out of it, to be honest.
01:49Yeah.
01:49But he's just ended up letting the car drift out wide.
01:55I think we have to stop, Lance.
01:58We shouldn't drive back, so just stop, find a safe place.
02:02Why?
02:03Because we can't drive back in this condition.
02:06It's not allowed anymore.
02:07And Gary Gannon, his race engineer, is absolutely right.
02:10You are not shaking the head from the Stroll fan in the grandstand there.
02:15Hamilton, towards the end of another lap, through the final chicane, close as you can to the Wall of Champions.
02:22And he crosses the line to go second fastest, a couple of hundreds behind Lando Norris.
02:28Lovely through the Wall of Champions area for George Russell.
02:31Crosses the line, goes quickest, by about two and a half tenths from Alex Alvin.
02:35I'm not at all surprised he's on the radio, saying he's got a bit of instability and lacking grip.
02:40And you can see, if you look down there, you can see that sheen on the top of the racetrack.
02:47So you've got a combined 19,000 horsepower of the best vacuum cleaners in the world out there.
02:54And they've still got a lot of work to do, because there just isn't any mechanic.
02:58And again, hits the curb, front bounces, runs wide.
03:03They are struggling out here.
03:05Here's Max Verstappen, still sliding around.
03:08Back to you.
03:10Thanks ever so much, Martin.
03:14I need some help with that last goal, haven't I?
03:16Trying to trigger out.
03:17Yeah.
03:17They're going to keep sticking out.
03:18Yeah, I don't need.
03:20And Lewis has gone through the chicane.
03:22On 200th start for Haas, by the way, in Formula One.
03:26This is Isaac Hadja, who I have no doubt is going to just complain about traffic in front of him in a few moments' time.
03:33Okay, it's very cheeky, right, a few.
03:35Sorry for that, Isaac.
03:36Head down.
03:37I don't know why that's the place.
03:40I agree.
03:40Very cheeky.
03:43You can see that one coming a mile off, to be honest.
03:46Very nice and calm.
03:47Good communication between him and his race engineer.
03:51Nice album.
03:51It's the pits.
03:53Is someone going to pop out in front of him?
03:56Oh, that was just sort of locked up, didn't he?
03:58Yeah.
04:00Sorry.
04:02Oh.
04:02Yeah, yeah.
04:03Oh, he missed his pit box.
04:04He did miss his pit box.
04:05So even at 80 kilometers an hour, it's easy to lock up a Formula One car.
04:11He's done 10 laps on this set now, hasn't he?
04:15And he's still going fast.
04:17He's done faster time.
04:18Anyone in sector one, middle sectors is pretty good as well.
04:22It's a personal best and only a tenth of the overall best.
04:25And it's a lap time improvement for Fernando Alonso.
04:28So the tire is hanging on at this stage.
04:30He's got a really good lineup of individuals and Nigel himself will be there.
04:35Oh, I love it.
04:35And you can show him how it's done then.
04:37Brilliant joke.
04:38All the way around.
04:39Thanks ever so much.
04:41We'll talk to you in a moment.
04:42We've got a bit of synchronized driving going on with the two Alpines.
04:47Pierre Gasly passes his teammate Franco Colapinto going in the other direction
04:51before he could spin the car around and get it facing the right way.
04:55I feel there was a session where we got that up to.
04:57This is Colapinto.
04:58That is exactly the same spin he had this morning.
05:01Yeah.
05:02Too eager on the throttle?
05:03Let's try and listen in here and see whether it was in that transition phase off throttle
05:08or when he started to pick throttle up.
05:11So he's turned into one.
05:12Let's just listen.
05:15No, it's before he picks the throttle up.
05:17It's just the rear of the car.
05:18And that's the same as we saw with Hamilton down at the Turn 10 hairpin.
05:24And Landon Orris as well.
05:26The crowd enjoyed that, didn't they?
05:27They certainly did.
05:28He got some good videos to take back home with him.
05:32So are we saying that's more car than driver?
05:35It's just a bit odd.
05:36Again, not quite sure whether that's, again, just for Lando only
05:41or whether for Oscar as well.
05:43Because...
05:43Two seconds, Ted.
05:44What the...
05:45I mean, what are these guys doing?
05:47Oh, my God.
05:48That was an Alpine getting in Liam Lawson's way.
05:51Carry on, Ted.
05:51So, I mean, it's not unusual, is it, guys,
05:53for them to test new bits on new front wings for future races?
05:58We've seen McLaren do that before.
06:00But then to declare them on the FIA new parts list...
06:03Two seconds again, Ted.
06:03Mate, who's that sailboat, man?
06:06That sailboat is just...
06:08They need to buy me, Rose.
06:10Yeah.
06:12Yes, traffic issues for Isaac and Liam.
06:15He's good on the radio, isn't he, Isaac?
06:17He is.
06:18But, yeah, I mean, it's weird, isn't it?
06:21I think it merits a bit more investigation.
06:24Where he took the side out of the Ferrari saddle,
06:26he's not out there now.
06:28But, so, minimum speed through here,
06:30when you're on it, it's about 90 miles an hour.
06:33And you need a car supple enough
06:35to just one single wheel,
06:38front right and rear right,
06:40to ride that curve.
06:42And I've seen, including Lewis Hamilton,
06:45cars coming off that
06:46with, like, a 30-degree slide
06:48heading towards the wall on the outside,
06:51which will have caught their attention.
06:53But it's...
06:54It's really...
06:55You're turning into, effectively,
06:57a little cul-de-sac or a lay-by,
06:59if you like,
07:00at a really high speed.
07:02The Red Bull there of Tsunoda
07:03going through.
07:05Well, we...
07:06That thing's a bit odd on the front left.
07:07Oh, he's gone across the grass.
07:10That's why.
07:10He's picked up some paint.
07:12Paint, daisies, and no groundhogs,
07:15fortunately, for Fernando Alonso.
07:17This coming through
07:19should be Fernando Alonso again.
07:21It is.
07:22Yeah.
07:22He felt all of that.
07:24Here is Max Verstappen
07:25making his way
07:27down that back straight,
07:30opening up for another lap.
07:33What's going to happen here?
07:35Turns in, it just isn't there for him.
07:37Ties a bit too cold?
07:40Yeah, it's like he's tying.
07:42The brakes that they're a little bit cold,
07:44they don't fight.
07:46It's worse than FD1.
07:48Okay, officer.
07:49So he needs to work on that a little bit,
07:51maybe into the hair pit,
07:52but it's such a long way from the chicane.
07:54The others are close
07:55and can out-qualify them.
07:57Yeah.
07:57But it's in the races
07:58that the McLaren seems to be
08:00slightly ahead, right?
08:02They've got that...
08:04Stable rear.
08:05Ability to control
08:06the rear tire temperature.
08:07It's actually the key point, I think.
08:09But the team would argue
08:10that comes from having a stable rear
08:12and not sliding as much as others,
08:15therefore keeping the temperatures under control.
08:17Canada is without doubt
08:18the birthplace of the F1 safety car.
08:21I shall tell you more in a moment
08:22when we watch what's just happened
08:23with Gabriel Bortoleto
08:25who wants to get past Carlos Sainz.
08:26What is this guy doing?
08:28He's lifting and then he's going on power
08:30and then he's lifting.
08:32Does he want to pressure or what?
08:34Let's just focus on our thing
08:35and make sure that we don't mess around with him.
08:37I'm not sure what Carlos was doing
08:41if he was lifting and getting back on power.
08:43Yeah, I agree.
08:44Because that seemed a bit unnecessary.
08:48I mean, yes, he wanted to stay ahead of Bortoleto,
08:51but the two of them were going to have a bit of a kerfuffle
08:52going into that final chicane.
08:55Talking of which, there's George Russell,
08:57and I think you are meant to rejoin the track
09:00a little bit later than George Russell did there.
09:02So when the orange line runs out,
09:04that's when you are told you are able to come back onto this track.
09:08Practice two has concluded
09:10and George Russell with the fastest time of the session
09:14with a 1.12.123.
09:17That is the first time on a Friday
09:19that George Russell, the first time this season,
09:22has been quickest in a practice session.
09:24Lando Norris, nearly three hundredths of a second
09:26behind him at second fastest.
09:28Three tenths back to Kimi Antonelli in the other Mercedes.
09:31Good day for Williams.
09:32Alex Albon, fourth fastest.
09:34Carlos Sainz, seventh fastest.
09:35Alonso right up there for Aston Martin, two.
09:38Oscar Piastri, sixth fastest.
09:40The championship leader, Lewis Hamilton
09:42in the one Ferrari running in FP2,
09:44was eighth fastest ahead of Verstappen and Lawson.
09:47And only one Ferrari because Charles Leclerc crashed in FP1,
09:51had to change his chassis and couldn't take part in FP2.
09:55And Lance Stroll barely got going,
09:56before he glanced the wall
09:57and broke his left front suspension on his Aston Martin.
10:01That is it for practice.
10:02See you tomorrow for more practice and qualifying to come.
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