00:00Tension fills
00:02Over to you Alex Jones
00:04This time I heard
00:06Wonderful experience for the commentary box to hear the revs
00:10So dramatically high, couple of gaps left, Carlos Sainz has left a row on purpose
00:16So it's
00:18Do what you want at this stage, you can see the new warning light
00:22flashing on the wing mirrors
00:26Another addition to this year
00:31Drivers moving into place, forming up properly
00:39Never expecting
00:42The yellow lights on the gantry in the extra formation that was advertised early on
00:46But you never know with a start procedure at the end of the day
00:51Looks like a fairground on the grid at the moment
00:53Are you keeping those yellow lights up all the time for race starts?
00:55There we go, there's the extra formation lap
01:03And Piastri moves away
01:07As that's Liam Lawson, Carlos Sainz and it's a little bit more in formation at the back
01:13Pajar off the line, Borca Leto now
01:19Russell, Bottas and Behrman clearing the grid
01:31Okay, I've been slowly away from the line
01:33Not with the same enthusiasm of those at the front, here we go
01:37So they're getting the data for how the car responds to this
01:41Joni was talking you through what happens when you go
01:43You're on a certain point of standing on the throttle
01:45We saw the last time that we were practicing this at the end of the first test
01:49Frank Nicola Pinto with a big moment that would have caught his attention
01:53You know what you need last thing on a Friday at the end of a work week
01:56Anyway, he gathered it all up and was able to take his practice start
02:00Fiastri's leading them round
02:02Just like he was when he was on pole here one year ago
02:09You want to be first car on the train, don't you?
02:13That's the aim
02:14That's the aim
02:15He has a carte blanche to do what he likes
02:17Everyone else has to just follow the car ahead
02:20So Hamilton glued to the back of Colofinto
02:22So the drivers can use the speed at the start of the lap
02:26Which is why you saw the speed build
02:27But then at some point they have to decide enough's enough
02:29And now I need to recharge the battery and I cannot afford to use it
02:33Because I won't be able to top it back up
02:35So for the first half of the lap
02:36And certainly down towards turn four
02:38They're able to build that speed and get the tire temp
02:41And then they have to do it a lot more
02:44Just by weaving, still braking as well
02:47But without getting that top speed
02:50That otherwise you'd maybe head back slightly
02:52And build up speed
02:53And maybe overlap and get a braking throttle
02:59Let's take two then
03:01So to the line we come
03:04With our contenders in the afternoon session
03:06With our contenders in the afternoon session
03:08As Akajal's been in the car all day
03:10Everyone else jumped in
03:11After the lunch break
03:14And now it's burnout time
03:18The drivers understanding
03:20How these cars respond across the course of the shakedown
03:24Of test number one
03:25Again, Carlos not fancying lining up in third
03:29He's left an entire rows gap
03:34It's one of these glorious moments to stand up and watch the action out of the commentary box
03:38As everyone moves into position
03:41Yeah, they're all leaving a row
03:42So it's row one and then row three, row five
03:46So just to make sure if anything does go wrong
03:48They're not going to spear into the back of a stationary car
03:51Yeah, smart stuff
03:52When you're testing it out
03:53Which is what we're doing
03:54Now the grid illuminated with the warning lights
03:57You can hear the rest rise early
04:00And the rest rise early
04:00Here we go
04:01So we waited
04:05And here we go
04:06Everyone leaving the line in unison
04:08Assuming it wasn't one by one
04:10And nice stuff from Isaac Hadjar
04:12He jumps ahead
04:13Oscar Piastri down to turn number one
04:17And he maintains the lead that he had
04:20And we're elbows out
04:21Oh, wonderful
04:22Now we've missed this
04:24Everyone behave themselves
04:25The last thing you want to do
04:27Is damage the front wing
04:29And go back to the grumpier set of mechanics
04:31That you'd ever face
04:32By giving them more work at the end of the day
04:34And that, my friends
04:36Is day one of testing
04:37With test two in mind
04:38Good news
04:40That the cars all left the grid together
04:42And managed to get away
04:43Good news that it doesn't look easy either
04:45There was a lot of wheel spin
04:47This is going to be far from
04:49The kind of orchestrated starts that we've had
04:52Because the technology
04:53And the clutch control
04:54And everything was by and large
04:56Absolutely nailed off
04:58We're going to see some random starts
05:00I think in film
05:01But even though that was much better
05:02The system seems to work
05:04Everyone had time
05:05I thought the best start was by Bottas
05:06I thought the Cadillac was going to roar through
05:08To lead into turn one
05:10Boost
05:10Boost
05:11Boost
05:12Keep pressing it
05:14How fascinating to see that all play out
05:16I can tell you
05:17If you've got a ticket
05:18For the main grandstand
05:19At any Grand Prix this year
05:21You're in for a treat
05:22The start's already pretty special
05:24The noise
05:25With the revs now
05:26It's amazing
05:27I want to sit
05:30Somewhere towards turn one in Melbourne
05:32Well I will be
05:33That's where the commentary boxes are
05:35Yeah
05:35It's in my lucky day
05:36It's in the braking zone
05:37It's in the braking zone
05:39It's blurry stuff
05:41Out of the window
05:44It's one of those
05:45The commentary box
05:46Often as we are now
05:48Up in the
05:49Grandstand opposite the main straight
05:51There it is going to be
05:52We don't know who's going to be leading
05:53When they come into view
05:55The end of day one of official test two in Bahrain
05:59And it's George Russell
06:00Who improved
06:02In the final hour of the day
06:04With a
06:041.33
06:054
06:065
06:079
06:07Oscar Piastri
06:09Went out and did his qualifying simulation early in the second session
06:13He's 100th back
06:14Charles Leclerc ran in the morning session
06:16And as did Lando Norris
06:17As did Kimi Antonelli
06:19Isaac Hadjar
06:20In the car all day
06:21Interrupted session one
06:22Much better in session two
06:24And it was Lewis Hamilton
06:25Carlos Sainz
06:26Franco Colapinto
06:27And Gabriel Bortleto
06:29Alex Alvin
06:29In the 11th
06:30And to the second page
06:32With Liam Lawson
06:33Oliver Behrman
06:33Pierre Gasly
06:34And Lance Stroll
06:35Estevan Ocon
06:36Fernando Alonso
06:37And Nico Hülkenberg
06:38Now I've been Lindblad
06:39Had plenty of laps
06:40Most of anyone
06:41In the early morning session
06:43Bortas with a good practice start there
06:45Sergio Perez
06:46Was in 21st
06:48And we'll see
06:48Max Verstappen
06:49Tomorrow
06:50He was not
06:52Behind the wheel today
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