00:00Yeah, because Lewis Hamilton's gaining on Carlos Sainz here, through the spray, pulls to the inside at the bus stop chicane, Sainz will try and fight it, but he can't, Hamilton is through and going off the track is Kimi Antonelli, didn't get his braking right there, doesn't gain any advantage, slots back in, behind Carlos Sainz, Hamilton is up into 16th, and Lewis Hamilton round the outside at Le Com of Pierre Gasly, he dispatched Carlos Sainz at the bus stop chicane, and about six corners later is up to 15th, sorry, Franco Colopi,
00:30Pinto was the driver he got in the Alpine, so pace for Hamilton in these early stages here at Spa, Lewis Hamilton on a charge still, Nico Hülkenberg's the next car, Hamilton's making moves here on this Sunday at Spa, and he's gained another place up to 14th, Anthony to you.
00:48Yeah, Lewis put into practice all of his British wet weather skills from his go-kart days here at the wet spa today.
00:54Running this close to the Alpine is not going to be necessarily helping Lewis Hamilton in that particular battle, but it's almost like Gasly just makes way there, and knew he wasn't going to fight Hamilton for much longer.
01:05An orthodox place to overtake into that first part of Stavolo, but Lewis had so much speed, he could do it.
01:12Hamilton told to box there, so yeah, is it ready for slicks? Lando Norris said it's not ready for slicks just yet. A few more laps, this would be fascinating to see what Ferrari do.
01:22Well, let's see then, what tyres are going on to Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari.
01:27It's got to be slicks, surely.
01:28Yeah, you would hope so, and the conversation will have taken place between driver and team medium tyres going on Hamilton's Ferrari.
01:37First one on to slicks. Hamilton on the slicks from the previous lap.
01:41We cut to that replay in the pit lane just as Hamilton, wow, that was close, was about to get past Liam Lawson.
01:48And I'll tell you what, Martin, that was about the width of a Ferrari document to a head of department, away from Lewis Hamilton, losing a bit of his front wing there.
01:56Yeah.
01:57So Piastri leads now by over six seconds to Lando Norris. Norris has been in and switched to the hard compound tyre.
02:06Leclerc third, Verstappen fourth, Russell fifth, there was traffic around that Verstappen-Russell incident, and that wasn't helping either of the two drivers.
02:13Alex Albon's lost a place to George Russell here on the track, and Lewis Hamilton, by pitting a lap earlier than everyone else, has moved up into the top seven ahead of Lawson, Hulkenberg, and Bortoletto.
02:26And Hamilton absolutely flying in. He can see now his teammate just at the top of the hill.
02:30He can see now his teammate just at the top of the hill.
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