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02:32Alex Albon there hitting the back and front of the Haas.
02:34I think that was Ocon.
02:36And I think that was an Alpine that they've been spun round as well in the middle of the track.
02:42Yeah, rear wing off for the back of Stroll's car.
02:45Oh dear, oh dear.
02:46Now it's Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz and Isaac Hadjar and then Oscar Piastri and here comes Charles Leclerc down the inside on Oli Behrman.
02:54Ferrari said they got pace, Leclerc's proving it.
02:57But, you know, I think he's calmed down a bit.
02:59I'm keeping like an animal.
03:02What sort of animal?
03:04Let's make sure to be aggressive guys, okay?
03:07We are monitoring a group of six slow cars.
03:11So we have to be careful not to fit into them.
03:12And they'll be the guys on the hard tyres.
03:15And Leclerc picking up a slipstream behind Oscar Piastri who's complaining of draining and that's not helping him get out of the slow corners.
03:22And there goes Charles Leclerc wheel to wheel.
03:25The Ferrari ahead of Oscar Piastri into the braking zone and Charles Leclerc makes up that place into six.
03:32And look how Piastri's then sliding out at turn 16.
03:36Now with Charles Leclerc, Isaac Hadjar is the car in front, Isaac Hadjar is the car alongside, Isaac Hadjar is the car behind him.
03:45Charles Leclerc is getting a shift on here in Vegas tonight.
03:48That was a lovely move.
03:50That was not DRS, that was a lunge down the inside.
03:53Steering, steering, same again.
03:56Copy.
03:57That's what we...
03:59George Russell is not confident at the moment.
04:03And that steering issue, as we see now Lewis Hamilton behind Esteban Ocon running wide at turn 12.
04:10And you're sitting duck.
04:11Yeah, you are.
04:12Oh, Alex hits him.
04:14He hits him as he pulled out as he's damaged the front wing.
04:17Well, let's have another little look at this.
04:20As Hamilton passes Alex Albon, here's the virtual safety car.
04:24There's a massive gap between Lawson and Albon.
04:28Um, around about three corners and the entire Las Vegas Boulevard part of this track.
04:35So, plenty of time for the marshals to get on the track.
04:38There we go, there's a marshall running towards it now.
04:41Let's just have a quick look at the start, Jensen, from Kimi Antonelli's perspective.
04:45Uh, well, to me, that doesn't look like a jump start.
04:51He didn't even get a good start.
04:52Oscar Piastri getting past Isaac Hadjar.
04:55Sparks flying from underneath the McLaren.
04:58Hadjar trying to pick up a slipstream and fight that one back again.
05:01The VSC has ended and Piastri's up to sixth place.
05:05And back to you.
05:06That's what he did.
05:06Okay, this is our chance.
05:07Let's try and pick up the pace.
05:09Yeah, no, I have.
05:10Clean air is just miles better, so.
05:13And I didn't even know that radio message was coming up.
05:16But the clean air really helps that McLaren to pick up the pace.
05:20And that's what he's doing.
05:21Here comes George Russell trying to make some moves through the field on Isaac Hadjar.
05:25I think he's going to be pitting at the end of this lap.
05:27That's an easy move on fresher tyres for George Russell.
05:31Piastri, Piastri.
05:32Round the first corner he goes.
05:34Yes, this could be what they call the late undercut.
05:38You know, the one where you don't get your guy in the pit stop,
05:41but your tyres are now a bit warmer than the guy who's just coming out.
05:44And you can use them to great effect to make the move pretty instantaneously
05:48when you're together on the track.
05:50The late undercut, as explained and demonstrated by Oscar Piastri.
05:54The sporting director at Ferrari, who was a lovely gentleman,
05:56and explained that to me in detail about three hours ago.
06:00There's a bit of damage to Fernando Alonso's front wing.
06:03It didn't matter to him there, though, did it?
06:05What a move around the outside, putting a lot of trust.
06:09Oh, and another great move.
06:10He's flying, isn't he?
06:12He's loving it.
06:13You've got to tell me two things.
06:14Am I doing my race, or how am I trying to agree for us?
06:19So, Landau, we think this is plan B for everyone.
06:21We want to go forwards, but the way to beat Russell will be at the end.
06:25We want better tyres of him at the end.
06:27Whether Kimi Antonelli can make a one-stop race work after pitting on lap two.
06:33Nobody, I was told.
06:34As here goes Oli Behrman on Fernando Alonso.
06:38Nice.
06:39Very nice indeed.
06:40Oli Behrman up into 11th.
06:42What I'm going to say is Landau Norris is going to be quick.
06:46I'll do all I can from the 10th problem.
06:47I don't want to do this stupid.
06:49Bristock Logan.
06:52Let's chase after Max.
06:53You want me to arrest or try to overtake him?
06:55Overtake him.
06:56We're going to go get Max.
06:57I was just about to say, if Landau Norris can get past George Russell,
07:01and I think it's a case of when, not if, currently,
07:04he has got the pace to chase after Max Verstappen.
07:07He has second place.
07:09Here comes Landau Norris.
07:11DRS, slipstream, pulls out.
07:14Has he got the speed to overtake George Russell
07:16and move into second before he gets to the chicane?
07:19Yes, he has.
07:20Landau's pace is carrying and propelling him forward.
07:24And now, that's the man he's chasing after, Max Verstappen.
07:28He's got the man.
07:29Max will know he's coming.
07:30Feel that he's coming, I'm sure.
07:32This was the move.
07:35At 220 miles an hour.
07:36More bag of talent, sir.
07:38More bag of talent.
07:39Hello, Max.
07:40Landau has been told to come and get you.
07:43And he is saving turn 17, 5, 11.
07:48Oh, there was me hanging on for a reply.
07:50Come on, Max.
07:51Don't keep us waiting.
07:52It might still come.
07:53Burning.
07:54Fronts look more robust on this tyre.
07:57And the mind of overtake.
07:58Yeah, let's just do whatever we've got to do, please.
08:02Tell me whatever I've got to do.
08:04Okay, in which case, just do more.
08:06Just do more.
08:08Just do more.
08:09That fourth place will be Oscar Piastri's when we cross the line.
08:14And when he crosses the line to finish the race.
08:17And we're on the final lap.
08:18And Max Verstappen is starting that with a 16 and a half second gap.
08:22And Norris is now six seconds clear of George Russell.
08:24No driver has won more than once in Las Vegas.
08:30That is going to change tonight.
08:32Because Max Verstappen starting on the front row, as he did in 2023, is going to come home
08:38in P1, as he did in 2023.
08:41And once again, here in Sin City, what Verstappen's in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
08:48Max Verstappen wins the Vegas Grand Prix.
08:50He keeps up his championship challenge.
08:53It's too good, mate.
08:56It's not so good.
08:58Oh, it's simply lovely, that.
09:01What a great race.
09:03It comes really good.
09:05It's fire.
09:07Well done.
09:07Really good execution.
09:11We managed that really, really well.
09:13So, very happy.
09:15Well done, guys.
09:16Well done, everyone.
09:17Yeah, George, congratulations to the podium.
09:19Really, really good.
09:20I agree with you.
09:21Probably those two laps with Verstappen, that's what did the damage.
09:25But a podium is a podium.
09:28Yeah, exactly.
09:29Didn't change the result.
09:30Then we had to try.
09:37I agree with you.
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