00:02Verstappen has just stopped in the pit lane. Do you have a problem?
00:05You cannot stop like this car, man.
00:07I think you might be in trouble for this. You're not allowed to stop the car like that.
00:11Everything okay, Max?
00:13Looks like... yeah.
00:14Yeah, okay, that looks okay now, mate.
00:16Verstappen being noted by race control for that moment.
00:20Good improvement for Yuki Tsunoda, who heads to the front of the field.
00:24But there was an improvement for Alex Albon, who's now down to 11th place.
00:27What can the Haas drivers do? They're up to second place.
00:30There's so much time to be found out there.
00:32Hülkenberg currently in the drop zone, but with the fastest first sector of anyone.
00:36So Sargent is gone and Joe is gone. They're both out.
00:39Stroll's first sector is not great either.
00:41He's dropped to the bottom and he's not having a fantastic lap.
00:44Hülkenberg goes to second. Track of Luz is ginormous.
00:47Okay, over the line goes Esteban Ocon to fifth place.
00:50You've got Hamilton, Gasly and Albon looking over their shoulders.
00:53Here's Lawson trying to improve.
00:55Piastri is also struggling 17th and barely improving.
00:58Piastri could be in trouble.
01:00Fourth place for Liam Lawson over the line.
01:03Bottas Piastri, Sargent Joe and Stroll is currently last.
01:07And he's hanging on to that Aston Martin as he approaches the final corners of the three miles.
01:11Gasly goes, oh, he's going to put it in the wall.
01:13Big crash on board with Lance Stroll.
01:15He was trying to wring the neck of the speed there and he finds the barrier.
01:20Cars have been on the edge around that final corner all the way through.
01:24And the red flag is out after Lance Stroll finds the barrier at enormous speed to conclude Q1.
01:31And that is a heavy, heavy hit into the barriers.
01:35Launches it into the final corner.
01:37Runs wide.
01:38And then, well, that's the outcome.
01:41He gets wide on that on the first part.
01:43So it's a two part apex corner, 18 and 19.
01:46And he gets just fractionally too wide through 18.
01:48And that means that he can't turn in adequately for the second part of it.
01:52He just gets slightly wide out on that outside part of the curb.
01:55And just momentarily unsettles the car from a wide point.
01:58It's not been rubbed in.
01:59It's a little bit more slippery.
02:00And then he's heading to the wall.
02:02Big accident.
02:04And Oscar Piastri shaking his head because he is out in Q1,
02:08along with Valtteri Bottas, Logan Sargent, Joe Guan Yu,
02:11and the driver who had the crash, Lance Stroll.
02:16This is Yuki Tsunoda.
02:17We're on board with the Japanese driver.
02:19Well, what the street, man, honestly.
02:22Is that Verstappen as well?
02:23That was the world champion in the way.
02:25And that might be why Yuki Tsunoda bailed out.
02:29He's miles away in the first part of the lap.
02:31He's picking it up now as the tyres find a bit of temp in the middle.
02:34But he's given away three tenths to a Haas in the first sector.
02:38So now he's got to really find something.
02:40There's a yellow flag in sector one.
02:42Perez, I think.
02:43Perez.
02:43Perez has spun the car.
02:46One Red Bull is struggling for time.
02:47The other one is facing in the wrong direction.
02:50And that could cost him the progression into Q3.
02:53He's out.
02:53Perez is out.
02:54He's only 11th anyway and he's not improving.
02:56What about Verstappen then?
02:57He's picking it up in the middle sector.
02:59But Verstappen's under pressure in the other Red Bull.
03:01And Perez is not going to get them out of jail here either.
03:04This is Formula One in 2023.
03:06But for some reason, around this configuration of circuit,
03:10the all-dominant Red Bulls are looking over their shoulders.
03:14Max Verstappen comes across the line.
03:16Max Verstappen stays in tenth position.
03:18And we're looking now to who can improve.
03:21One Red Bull is out.
03:23Gasly does not take the opportunity to demote Verstappen.
03:25Can anyone else improve?
03:27The Alfa Tauris could yet do it.
03:29Tsunoda's on a decent lap.
03:30Oh, it looks like he's backed out of it, has he?
03:32In the final sector.
03:33How about Liam Lawson?
03:34Can Liam Lawson make it through?
03:35He can!
03:37Liam Lawson knocks out Max Verstappen!
03:40Absolutely extraordinary!
03:42The driver, who is in his third Formula One qualifying session,
03:47finds a time good enough for tenth and demotes the world championship leader.
03:52As science goes, fastest of anyone so far, over the line.
03:56What an almighty shock!
03:59That is, Max Verstappen will push on, but the chequered flag is out.
04:04And Red Bull are eleventh and thirteenth.
04:07Verstappen has won the last ten Grand Prix in a row.
04:11I don't know if you saw that, but that was f***ing shocking.
04:14Absolutely shocking experience.
04:17He gets over the AstroTurf here and loses traction as he's coming through,
04:20arcing on the right-hand side, and then the spin is a nothing.
04:24This is on board with Verstappen at that same corner,
04:27and maybe they're just not getting the tyres switched on at all.
04:31The team that have won every single Grand Prix this year
04:35see both cars fall in Q2.
04:39What just happened?
04:42Sainz has really done a fast middle sector.
04:44He's two tenths quicker than Leclerc there as well.
04:46Norris to the front of the field with a 1.31.5.
04:50Strong lap from him.
04:51Can the Ferraris respond?
04:53Here's the Spanish driver Carlos Sainz.
04:55That's a great time from Carlos Sainz, who does a 1.31.1,
04:59and now it's all over to Charles Leclerc.
05:01On pole for the last two.
05:04Singapore Grand Prix, but he's only second at the moment.
05:07He's behind his teammate again, but Russell is quicker in sector one.
05:11We go on board with the British driver.
05:12Here he comes. Where can Russell put the car?
05:14Fourth position.
05:15He's behind Norris.
05:17He's behind the Ferraris, and the Ferraris are staring at a front-row lockout
05:20unless Hamilton can do something about it,
05:22and he goes behind his teammate.
05:26Sainz's first sector is absolutely immense.
05:29A 26.7, and Norris not too far behind though,
05:33but that is where Norris is usually the strongest.
05:35On the left-hand side of your picture is the part of the racetrack
05:38where Carlos Sainz, he's owned it this weekend.
05:40He's been all over the road in the best possible way
05:43in the part of the circuit that he's in.
05:45Can anyone find an answer to him with just 30 seconds to go in qualifying?
05:50Leclerc's there as well.
05:51There's four hundreds between the two Ferraris and Lando Norris in the first sector.
05:56Russell coming through turn five.
05:57He's a bit further back.
05:58We'll see what he can do shortly.
05:59Magnusson has gone to P4.
06:01The track is improving.
06:02Sainz has not found a personal best in the middle part of the lap
06:05where he is usually so mighty.
06:07Holkenberg goes to sixth position, and so Magnusson will be the lead house on the grid
06:12for only the fourth time this year.
06:14Everyone needs to find a response.
06:16At the moment, the two Ferraris are both improving things.
06:20And Leclerc is bringing the magic.
06:22Late on, two corners to go for Carlos Sainz, who's currently on for pole position.
06:27He improves his time, but he needed to because Charles Leclerc is going nicely through the middle sector.
06:32And Russell's flying as well.
06:34He's right with them through the first sector.
06:35Norris goes to second position with Charles Leclerc.
06:38He's going to have a chance to respond to both of them.
06:40Here comes the Scarlett Ferrari through the final corner.
06:43Charles Leclerc gets back to the front row, but he can't beat his teammate.
06:47But George Russell might be about to because he's up in the middle sector,
06:51chasing his second career pole.
06:54It's huge from Russell.
06:55He's three tenths ahead of Hamilton.
06:56That shows how well he's doing here.
06:58Couple of corners to go.
06:59Right-hander of 16.
07:00Over the curve.
07:02Keeps it a bit of a wide berth through 17.
07:04Last quarter and Russell is there or thereabouts for pole.
07:07Can Russell find his way to the front row?
07:09Can he take pole?
07:10Russell over the line.
07:11Second fastest for George Russell, who falls 700 short.
07:16Look at how close it is between the top three.
07:18Less than a tenth of a second separating the top three cars on the grid.
07:23With Lewis Hamilton in fifth position over the line behind Norris, Leclerc and Russell.
07:28But for the second Grand Prix in a row, it's Carlos Sainz's day.
07:33It's a second pole position in a row for the man you're looking at, Sainz.
07:38We have it.
07:39We have it.
07:40We have it.
07:41And now?
07:41And two in a row.
07:42Tell me we have it.
07:43Yes.
07:46Sainz, since the summer break, has had terrific speed over one lap.
07:51And he denied George Russell by seven hundredths of a second.
07:55He denied Charles Leclerc by seven hundredths of a second.
07:58And Lando Norris with a good lap as well.
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