00:00We're going to do split stints, so expect him to box rather soon.
00:05Sorry, Ruth, we're just going to break away from that.
00:08George Russell's race simulation might come to a grinding halt if we get a red flag.
00:13As Lance Stroll has just spun off and ended up, and it looks like he's beached in the gravel.
00:20This just before Turn 11, and yes, we have got a red flag, which doesn't surprise me in the slightest,
00:26because they're going to need to recover that Aston Martin.
00:29There you are, on the outside of Turn 11.
00:33We didn't see the full extent. We kind of cut to it just as it was happening.
00:38That's been a major lock-up, hasn't it? What has happened there?
00:41So he's applied the brakes, and the brakes just locked in place.
00:47Hopefully we'll see a replay of that, because that is...
00:49I was expecting just a one single-wheel lock-up.
00:54Right, let's have a watch and listen to this.
00:56Out of Turn 10 all looks good.
01:04Oh, that's a not-driver error at all.
01:08It sounded like he lost drive, if anything, before he...
01:12Did something right? Did the gearbox break on downshifts?
01:18It was on the reattachment, wasn't it, of the active aero.
01:24The problem started instantaneously.
01:26Now, whether it's coincidental or not, I don't know.
01:28But the minute the active aero reattached itself,
01:32then the car gets thrown offline.
01:34I don't think it was...
01:35But the noise, you're right, doesn't make me think that it's active aero.
01:41But don't forget that the active aero is just a telltale sign
01:43that the driver's lifted off throttle or braking.
01:46So that's just a by-product, but...
01:48I'd like to go back on board again if we can see that.
01:51Yeah, now I know what I'm listening out for.
01:53It definitely sounded like there was an oscillation when he pressed the brake.
01:58But it's the first downshift or second or third downshift,
02:01and it seemed to just...
02:02It seemed to go into like a neutral kickback through the drivetrain.
02:07I would put money on drivetrain being the issue there,
02:11and within the gearbox, perhaps.
02:13Didn't sound like engine.
02:15It just sounded...
02:16Yeah, definitely not drive aero.
02:18The shift lights disappeared completely all the way down to yellow.
02:23Talking of yellow, you've got those flashing lights on the wing mirrors.
02:26That's the new safety procedure from the FIA.
02:30When a car comes to a standstill, those lights will go on.
02:35And it is to help other drivers see cars in poor visibility,
02:39sometimes if they're facing the wrong way.
02:42Now, you can see the rain light that's flashing away
02:45if the car is pointing in the direction of travel.
02:47If the car has spun round,
02:48then you've got no reference point for a driver coming onto the scene.
02:53So now you have, with those blinking, what look like indicator lights,
02:58but I promise you they were not there for the purposes of indication,
03:02just visibility.
03:05It's a perfect display, actually, as to why the FIA have implemented that.
03:11You know, having drivers coming up towards turn 11,
03:13a high-speed corner, and a car way in the distance,
03:16but you see the yellow lights flashing,
03:19looks like a yellow flag,
03:20and that's definitely going to catch your attention,
03:23and you'll see...
03:24You'll therefore know that it's a car sideways,
03:26and not pointing in the right direction,
03:28so you know that there's a car in trouble, basically, in front.
03:33Let's have a look, and we'll go on board again.
03:36So it's either on the first or second downshift.
03:38Let's listen out again.
03:47Yeah, it's like, I know we slowed it down there,
03:49but it's the...
03:51It's just got...
03:52It had no drive.
03:53No.
03:53It's like it went into neutral as soon as he requested the first downshift.
03:59Correct.
04:00Like I said, the lights, the shift lights, just disappeared.
04:09Yeah, that's not driver error.
04:11It just sounded odd, the way the revs dip down so much.
04:16You do get a little bit more rear locking with these cars.
04:19It's another area where you miss the MGU-H.
04:30Yeah, he had no drive.
04:31It went into neutral.
04:33The revs just dropped right down,
04:34and the first...
04:35Literally, the first shift he made,
04:37it just locked the rears,
04:38and around it went.
04:40That's why it was such a high-speed spin.
04:45Completely not driver error.
04:49Strange one.
04:50That is not what Aston Martin could do with it.
04:55They need mileage on the clock.
04:56They need to be pushing that engine as much as they can.
05:00And if it's lost drive there,
05:02that's a worrying diagnosis debrief
05:07coming from the Honda side of the garage,
05:10because they need to find out why that happened.
05:12Oh, absolutely.
05:14Yeah, it's paramount.
05:14Any kind of high-speed moment like that
05:18that puts the driver off the circuit,
05:21you must find the cause of the problem straight away.
05:25What we're looking at here, the aerodynamic analysis.
05:28The Aston Martin versus the McLaren.
05:30Yes.
05:31Just looking at the rake.
05:32Oh, yeah, look.
05:33Really clear flipping between the two of them.
05:36Can we go back to the Aston Martin,
05:38then go back to the McLaren?
05:40Because that's always the best way to make a comparison.
05:43I mean, all cars are running some brake.
05:45Yeah, look at that.
05:46So much daylight underneath the Aston Martin.
05:49This is what we spotted earlier on.
05:51And you do need to do it when they're static, actually,
05:54like this with Alonso at the end of the pit lane.
05:58And Norris, yeah, it's really quite clear, isn't it?
06:01Oh, a good undershot of the car there, Crofty, actually.
06:04Oh, Adrian knew he was not going to enjoy this.
06:06Yeah, they never like these moments.
06:08They never like these moments where you can actually see
06:11the secret flaw of the cars.
06:14I mean, we're not saying that the McLaren doesn't have a rake.
06:17It does, just not as extreme.
06:20And then I think if you saw the Ferrari there as well,
06:22I think that's even lower than the McLaren.
06:24I'd say how they were running the car.
06:26When we saw the Flowvis paint on it with Lewis at the wheel
06:29in the afternoon, that's where the Ferrari looked like
06:32it was the lowest one.
06:34So it's the walk-back.
06:35Oh, look at that.
06:37Look at that.
06:37You ask, you get.
06:38Amazing.
06:38You've got power.
06:39You've got power up here, look.
06:41Yeah.
06:41There's the walk-back for Lance Stroll,
06:43back into the paddock once again.
06:49And no driver wants to take that stroll.
06:51Oh, dear.
06:52Yeah, exactly.
06:53I mean, you have to trust the car under braking.
06:59It's one of the most important parts of the corner, Croft,
07:02is just knowing what you're going to get
07:04when you hit that left foot on the brake pedal.
07:07And you hit it hard as well, don't forget.
07:09So you need the car to be there for you
07:11the whole way through into the braking zone,
07:13every downshift.
07:14They need to be slick.
07:16They need to be in good sequence
07:18and not to upset the balance in any way.
07:22I mean, that's an extreme example
07:23of what can go wrong
07:25when you have too much rear locking.
07:27But, I mean, to some degree,
07:30teams and drivers are complaining of this.
07:32It's a new phenomenon
07:34for this set of regulations,
07:35having lost the MGU-H.
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