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00:00And watch the straight line speed, they should get tremendous straight line speed with the tailwind today.
00:05A 1.10.2 for Oli Behrman who has the joint lowest average starting position of any driver this season.
00:12Charles Leclerc has gone second fastest, nearly four tenths behind Oli Behrman in the Haas.
00:18That's a surprise, isn't it? It's not a way to expect to see the works Ferrari behind their customer team by four tenths.
00:24Hamilton going four hundredths quicker and a yellow flag.
00:28And it is the Aston Martin of Lance Stroll. Karun mentioned he had a big crash in FP2 and he's gone into the barriers.
00:35I think once again he's ruined that set of tyres. That is for certain.
00:40So he's coming out of turn 12, the slow speed left-hand corner here up to 13.
00:43This is a quick right-hander, touch the grass on the left and that sent him into the barrier.
00:49Pretty hefty impact, obviously damage the front wing but the front suspension.
00:53Grass, but I'm bringing it back.
00:55Watch there. He's just driven onto the grass. His line of sight at that point is he's looking right.
01:03He's looking at the apex. It's not in his eyeline but that's where the drivers will be using their judgment.
01:09After a minute, I haven't seen anyone else in the last three or four years that we've been coming here do that.
01:15So that is a, that's a first. Yeah. Yeah, and that would have compromised what happens around through 13.
01:21You can see he, he turned in from a shallower angle into the corner.
01:26He's done a nine-seven.
01:27So that's comparable to his time from earlier today. Not seeing much work going on there.
01:34Last time I guess so.
01:36We'll just see what we can do. Let's just stay in there for now.
01:38Look at all the chips as well on the side of the cockpit.
01:42That will hurt your aero performance.
01:45Lando Norris got pole last year.
01:47Max was relegated to the front row, of course.
01:50Norris went and led from pole and won very convincingly indeed as Antonelli goes ahead of Russell.
01:56It's the second fastest and Norris powers down the straight to go nearly three tenths clear of Max Verstappen.
02:01He's got a 109.4. He was in the 108s earlier today.
02:07Piastri tenth and a half behind Norris clear of the Red Bull and behind his teammate.
02:12What has changed since the practice session this morning?
02:15Track's got a bit warmer. 34 degrees track temperature.
02:18Air temperature has stayed about the same and the wind has picked up a bit.
02:21Fernando Alonso goes fourth fastest within half a second of Lando Norris.
02:26Ferrari need a good lap here from Leclerc. He's only 14th.
02:2914th. Now what has happened to Ferrari again?
02:33They've been struggling. He's bailed. Lewis has bailed.
02:36Yes. They've been struggling this weekend.
02:40And whatever changes they've made in setup have not helped the pace of this car whatsoever.
02:47So I think the Ferraris, both cars, have to fit a new set now.
02:51Their second set of saw for this session to get anything near a safe lap time.
02:55And Liam Lawson saying check the floor of my racing balls.
02:59And the reason being, he's gone over the raggedy edge of the kerb on the exit of turn three.
03:05Yeah. And that's not going to do the floor any good whatsoever.
03:08Why did Lewis Hamilton bail out? He got onto the gravel slightly into turn 11.
03:12And that might have been of a consequence.
03:14But for Hamilton and Leclerc to be using up extra sets of soft tyres at this stage,
03:20even if they do get through, that's really compromising them.
03:23So this lap should put Alex Albon round about 5th or 6th place, you would imagine.
03:29Crosses the line to go 5th ahead of Kimi Antonelli.
03:32That's Esteban Occoncrofty. 16th. Doesn't make it in.
03:35Hasn't quite made it. It's ahead of his teammate, but not out of the bottom 5th.
03:39Colopinto goes 15th. Puts pressure now on Nico Hülkenberg and Yuki Tsunoda,
03:45who is next to cross the line in the Red Bull. Goes 12th fast. It should be okay.
03:49Pushes Hadja down. Pushes Sainz down.
03:51Bortoleto and Colopinto back into that bottom 5.
03:54But here comes Nico Hülkenberg now. Can he get his Salva out of that bottom 5?
04:00No, he can't. He stays down in 17th.
04:03That is a double elimination for the Haas team of Ocon and Behrmann.
04:10It's stroll out for Aston Martin.
04:12It's Hülkenberg and it's Colopinto completing the bottom 5th.
04:16There was a Fox and Theo Thumb that I think he's taking the exit road there.
04:22Okay.
04:22How cunning of this. Well spotted Charles Leclerc as he got the power down,
04:28which might just have derailed his progress for a brief moment.
04:33A 1-10-0 is slower than he managed with his best time in Q1,
04:37but these are used soft tyres rather than new,
04:40and Hamilton crosses the line at 10th behind him.
04:42There is the little fox running across the track.
04:46Yeah, don't try that at home.
04:47No, maybe, you know, they made some subtle tweaks to the car,
04:55you know, in between Q1 and Q2,
04:57and they just want to do a check to make sure it's gone in the right direction.
05:01Russell first to cross the line before Max, though.
05:04We're into the 1.09s with him.
05:06Verstappen's last pole, of course, was Silverstone.
05:09So if you are getting those Silverstone vibes,
05:11how about a 1.09-1 for you?
05:13That is half a second up on his best time from Q1.
05:18A tenth and a half left on the table.
05:20DRS is open, drag reduction system,
05:23and giving him a 1.08.874.
05:27And that, I make, to be the best lap of all time here at Zanzo.
05:32Lando Norris quickest.
05:33What can Oscar Piastri respond with?
05:36He can go second fastest.
05:38Nine one-hundredths off the pace.
05:40This is what we're used to seeing between the two McLaren drivers.
05:44Barely anything to choose between them.
05:46Leclerc next to cross the line, goes fourth quickest on the new tyres.
05:49Much better from him.
05:50It's the sort of thing Lewis Hamilton's made a habit of in his career in Formula 1.
05:54And he goes fourth fastest now behind his teammate Charles Leclerc.
05:57And that is a much more impressive showing from the two Ferrari.
06:00I think it was on a used set, according to the information we've got in the country box.
06:06And this is Max Verstappen encountering a slower-moving car through Turn 7 on the outside.
06:12And that was Lando Norris.
06:16We've talked about this a lot throughout this weekend.
06:22I'll get your thoughts on it in a minute, Karun.
06:25This is Carlos Sainz through the banking.
06:28Goes a bit close to the wall there.
06:30Swings its way off the final banking.
06:33Powers down the main straight.
06:35Gasly goes into the top ten.
06:37But only tenth pushes Alex Albon down into the bottom five.
06:42Where his teammate Carlos Sainz currently is, but not for much longer.
06:45So Gasly now out of that bottom five.
06:48Here's Isaac Hadja.
06:49Ninth fastest currently looking to move up a couple of places.
06:54Does so.
06:55And that could get him through.
06:57But there's still improvement behind Bortoleto in the first sector.
07:01Albon stays in that bottom five.
07:02He's out of qualifying.
07:04That's a bit of a surprise.
07:05Q3 and three of the last four Grand Prix.
07:08Checker flag waves.
07:09And that's knocked Yuki Tsunoda out of the top ten as he moves in to seventh place.
07:15And Kimi Antonelli is out because Fernando Alonso has put his Aston Martin into the top seven.
07:24Youngest driver replaced in the top ten by the oldest driver.
07:27And Yuki Tsunoda replaced by the man whose seat he took after two races this season.
07:32Piastri up to the line.
07:34And that puts him at a 1.08.662.
07:37Immediately beats the lap record you mentioned.
07:40However, Crofty, here comes Lando Norris.
07:42And he hasn't been on pole, Oscar Piastri, since Spain.
07:46Lando Norris was on pole last time out.
07:48And Lando Norris is going to have to go again.
07:51The car moved around a bit on the turn in to turn 13.
07:54He goes fourth fastest behind George Russell by three tenths of a second.
08:00But Leclerc on a used set of tyres.
08:02Yes, one they did an out lap on Karun.
08:04Not a whole flying lap.
08:06So used, yes, but still with a bit of performance life in it as Hamilton goes above Leclerc.
08:11Max Verstappen's targeting a little better than that.
08:14Is this going to be third on the grid as he crosses the line?
08:16Yes, it is.
08:17Goes ahead of George Russell.
08:19It's Piastri, Norris, Verstappen.
08:21That's a big statement from Piastri to recover that.
08:24It only came in the first sector.
08:26All through the weekend we've been saying he's a tenth down in sector one.
08:29He's a tenth down in sector one.
08:30That's the first time Piastri has been a little bit quicker than Norris in sector one.
08:36And that for me, as we saw a snap of Ozier from Lawson, that for me is a massive psychological gain for Piastri.
08:44He's got five hundredths of a second in hand to take that pole position.
08:48But what's going to happen in the final sector?
08:51Lando Norris crosses the line.
08:52It's front row only for Lando Norris.
08:55And he's missed out by a mere 88 milliseconds.
08:59Oscar Piastri powers his way to the line.
09:02It's Papaya on pole.
09:04And it is Piastri for the Dutch Grand Prix.
09:06And he's on pole for the first time since Spain back in June.
09:11LeClaire, who was our pole sitter in Budapest, is now powering to the line.
09:15And it's only fifth on the grid for him.
09:17Lewis Hamilton has had the advantage in major key moments during the session so far.
09:23Over his teammate Hamilton now racing towards the line.
09:26Where can he put his Ferrari?
09:28And this time around, LeClaire has the advantage over Hamilton.
09:32George Russell then currently sat on the second row.
09:35And that's exactly where he stays.
09:37Now Verstappen has put in the best middle sector we've seen so far.
09:41But surely even he, for all his brilliance and 44 career poles before,
09:46can't challenge Norris and Piastri here.
09:48Or can he?
09:49It's the home run from the homeboy.
09:51The Dutch Lion Max Verstappen to the line.
09:54Crosses the line.
09:55He misses out by two and a half tenths.
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