00:00Onwards towards the Vail Chicane.
00:03So in the Vail Chicane, you're looking to take a little bit of that red kerb on the inside.
00:07It's flatter than it's been in previous years, across the line of 27.3.
00:12Like I said before in Vail, use a lot of the kerb on the inside,
00:15and then get on the power as early as you can with the car complaining a lot at slower speeds through club.
00:22I just got the feeling towards the end of that lap, as hard as Lando would like,
00:26but the car wasn't giving him the best of service, and he ends up half a second down on Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.
00:33We're on board now with Lance Stroll, fastest Aston Martin here last year.
00:39Job number one for him today, get out of Q1.
00:42He's been knocked out.
00:44Ooh, dear.
00:45Job number one, keep it pointed.
00:47I thought the keep it pointed the right way was the obvious statement,
00:52and I'm sure he would have wanted to have kept it pointed the right way,
00:55but look how the back end slid out of there.
00:58Slightly wide through the...
01:00It looked good through Brooklands.
01:01He carried a lot of speed.
01:03He had a little bit of understated on turning to the left.
01:05Leclerc absolutely flying through the first two sectors.
01:08He just comes alive, doesn't it, when you go on board the Ferrari.
01:12This is Saturday after this.
01:14That's what you're looking for in Vail.
01:16That's how to take that corner.
01:19Sends it to the line, and almost six tenths ahead of Verstappen.
01:23A lot of work on Charles Leclerc's car.
01:26I thought it was quite a simple suspension change,
01:29but now there's work at taking the engine cover,
01:31taking the sticky tape off the engine cover.
01:34Team Radio?
01:35Yeah, the massive moment in 12.
01:37Probably, yeah, that's what the overlay says.
01:40It's what we saw on board as well, Ted.
01:42He was going through Beckett's.
01:44No, but I mean, it's...
01:45He's now come out and said something last night,
01:47so it's worth addressing.
01:48Yeah, exactly.
01:48No, that's what I mean.
01:49That's what I mean, and I hope it's true,
01:51and, you know, I think when a driver says something like that,
01:53we should believe it.
01:54What the f*** was that?
01:57Yeah, that was meandering close to the racing line, wasn't it?
02:01What's that?
02:02Was that Fernando Alonso?
02:03If only he'd come across a really experienced driver.
02:07Stroll, we're hearing.
02:08Stroll?
02:10That's why they're both in.
02:11Wait, this brake bias is f***ed, this offset.
02:15It's like a handbrake.
02:17A little bit of Frank before turn nine, but nothing big.
02:21Copy.
02:22Turn nine, by the way.
02:25If you like your corner names, Cox.
02:27He's dropped a fair bit, as you rightly say,
02:28about four tenths of a second, as Russell goes second fastest,
02:32two tenths behind Charles Leclerc.
02:35I was talking about this subject last night
02:37to people who would know this a lot better than me,
02:40because they used to be a strategist.
02:42You don't want to push too early on a lap here at Silverstone.
02:46If you set a purple sector in the first sector,
02:49as Kimi Antonelli has just done,
02:51that's not always a good fit.
02:53These are key laps coming up ahead of qualifying.
02:55This is Charles Leclerc.
02:57Just warming up his tyres, and then what happened?
03:01Clearly lost it.
03:03Massive rear lock-up.
03:05Yeah.
03:06So, look, he's just weaving around, energising his tyres,
03:08and then, whoa!
03:09Yeah.
03:10Rears either aren't ready, or it's something with the...
03:13Regen?
03:16Yeah, it could be with the electronic brakes
03:18that they have in these cars,
03:20and when you see moments like that, it's...
03:22I mean, you're trying to charge your battery as much as you can,
03:24get the state of charge up for a push lap.
03:26What's going on here with Lawson?
03:27Was he looking to the left?
03:28Is he a bit annoyed with the LP?
03:30I mean, Gasly's not even looking.
03:31Oh, he's...
03:32Yeah, okay.
03:33We saw it, reporting it.
03:34Bit of road rage.
03:36So, he kind of cut across, didn't he, Gasly, here?
03:40Just chops him off completely,
03:42so Gasly thinks, well, I'll go running outside it, mate.
03:44Not a problem.
03:44I'm wondering if we missed something, though.
03:47Yeah, something that happened earlier.
03:48Because that, you would just drive around Gasly where he was.
03:51Heads to the final, couple of corners.
03:55Car bounces quite a lot, actually,
03:57over the curbs of 16 on the left,
03:59finishes the lap to go fastest,
04:02and the fastest...
04:03He just got fast and faster as the lap went on.
04:06We're just both laughing at how quick they're driving.
04:10It's like a video game.
04:10Through Beckinson's story, yeah.
04:12He didn't take as much curve, it didn't seem there.
04:14He might...
04:15You'll see on one across the line,
04:16but he seemed like he got a worse exit because of it.
04:18Oh, he didn't.
04:19He gained three...
04:20Was it 380?
04:24Down towards Cops, we go with Carlos Sainz.
04:26Back to McLaren drivers in a couple of moments,
04:28but let's look at this.
04:29Nope, it doesn't like it.
04:32Did not, did it, I'll tell you.
04:33That's what we describe as, as driver's property,
04:35a pointy car.
04:36Yeah.
04:37Front goes in, rear can't follow,
04:41and he knew it straight away when he turns it.
04:43That's why you end up unwinding the lock
04:45and going straight on.
04:46If he were to commit to that corner,
04:48you get what happened to him yesterday.
04:50Wear your car's good,
04:52and not worry about the rest of it.
04:54That looked pretty hooked up.
04:55That was perfect.
04:55Through the veil of chicane.
04:57Verstappen then, round the final corner he goes.
05:00And he has lost that little bit of time.
05:02Behrman's two tenths down
05:03on the quickest time out there.
05:05So it's amazing how close it all is.
05:07I think this is Hamilton on his build-up lap here,
05:10and he can't get the power down
05:12before committing to full throttle.
05:14Doesn't even start his lap.
05:16It's a 27.5 for the first sector,
05:18which is well up on others.
05:21A personal best for the middle sector,
05:23but as we've been to...
05:24Oh, a red flag is going to stop all that.
05:27Had he gone too fast too soon,
05:29we will never know
05:30because the red flag's come out
05:33and it's come out after we had a...
05:36Oh, a bit of a part falling off a car.
05:39Had a message flash up saying
05:41that the track surface was a bit slippery somewhere,
05:44but something has fallen out off a car.
05:47Oli Behrman's house is where the rogue part came off.
05:52We think that bodywork on track might actually be yours.
05:56Oh.
05:57Is it mine?
05:57Yeah, stop littering.
06:01Yeah, man.
06:02He wouldn't have known that at all.
06:04That's come from the diffuser, right?
06:05Well played, man.
06:07Excellent.
06:07Wasn't it fudge?
06:09Is it from the diffuser?
06:10Seems to be a consistent trait for Russell, at least.
06:15And just not slowing down on that right front
06:18as he would have wanted.
06:20Maybe expecting too much from the car,
06:22unless he would have looked like on board.
06:25He's just...
06:26It looks a bit cold, that right front as well.
06:30I have to say, though, he does touch the left curb.
06:33Oh, dear!
06:34Gabriel Portoleto is off,
06:36and he is off just before Chapel
06:39and into the gravel.
06:41And that, with less than a minute to go,
06:44is the end of FP3.
06:47And also, if you're a mechanic at Sauber
06:50or you're Gabriel Portoleto,
06:51not what you want to see,
06:52because now there's a race on
06:54to get that Sauber recovered
06:55and fixed for qualifying.
06:59This is a very strange angle.
07:01Whoa, whoa, whoa!
07:02Ah, that's where it's done it.
07:04That's a very strange failure, though, isn't it?
07:07I know it's not the reason for the off.
07:10You're okay?
07:10You're okay, mate?
07:12I'm okay, but suspension is broken.
07:14Yeah, I saw that.
07:15No problem.
07:16We would have repaired that for a quality.
07:18It's taken an unusual load, hasn't it?
07:20A load it wouldn't normally take.
07:22The car was almost facing backwards
07:24when it's hit the curb.
07:25This might be a better angle of it.
07:30That is the bump, yes.
07:31Going backwards over the bump.
07:33So they're designed to take a load
07:34with the car travelling forwards, obviously.
07:37So this has gone back.
07:38Didn't we see, was it in Melbourne,
07:40where he had a spin on the exit
07:43of the third-to-last corner?
07:45Was it the rear suspension, or was it the front as well?
07:48That was the front as well.
07:49And he was going backwards.
07:50Going backwards on the brakes.
07:52That's Lance Stroll's view of the situation.
07:54And every driver knows that that's a very high-speed crash, too.
08:01Or a very high-speed moment, at least.
08:03So lucky to not hit the barriers, yeah.
08:05Yeah.
08:06And that's why we have tethers as well on these tyres.
08:10They can't always keep the tyre on,
08:12but the tether did a super job there
08:14to stop that tyre flying.
08:16That looks like a piece of Hass.
08:18Yeah, it does.
08:19And that's definitely Oli Behrman's car
08:24that's been off on the grass
08:26and has lost a lot of the front wing.
08:29So let's have a look at what happened to Oli Behrman
08:31right at the end of FP3.
08:35All happening out there.
08:36As pretty much every driver was out on the track
08:40in the last few moments.
08:41This is coming into the pits.
08:44Whoa.
08:45And it just locked up.
08:46Under braking.
08:48Into the pits.
08:50Idiots.
08:51My brakes are cold.
08:55Oh, I'm sorry.
08:56Because red flag infringements.
08:57No, you're right.
08:58The stewards tend to be, you know,
09:01more penal, shall we say,
09:03in their punishments,
09:04not just a fine or a warning.
09:06We'll keep you posted.
09:07We're on air all the way through today
09:09on Sky Sports F1 here from Silverstone.
09:12Charles Leclerc making it three different drivers
09:15fastest in three different practice sessions.
09:17Oscar Piastri, Max Verstappen, Lando Norris,
09:21top four separated by a tenth.
09:23Then, Sonoda and Behrman
09:24before that red flag infringement.
09:26Behrman, sixth fastest.
09:27He'd put in a great lap.
09:28Alex Albon up there.
09:30George Russell, braking issues at the turn three.
09:32Where's his proper pace?
09:33Isaac Hadjar and Liam Lawson
09:35in the fringes of the top ten as well.
09:37Lewis Hamilton was on course
09:39for what could have been the best time
09:40before the red flag came out, the first one.
09:43Carlos Sainz, exceptionally fast in the first sector.
09:46Antonelli's got a three-place grid penalty, as I say.
09:48Bortoletto's car needs fixing.
09:50Behrman's car needs fixing.
09:52Qualifying is next.
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