00:00Logan Sargent, this is him losing it, turn 13.
00:03Yeah, the problem came on the entry, he just had the lock-up,
00:06forced him fractionally wide out onto that kerb on the exit,
00:10and then he tried to just keep his foot buried on the throttle.
00:12Perez is off the road!
00:14Sergio Perez, who had a torrid time in practice with four excursions,
00:20has gone off at turn three to bring out the red flag,
00:23and the driver, second in the World Championship,
00:26has found the gravel, found the wall, and brought out the red flag
00:30in the first part of qualifying, it looks like he's beached it.
00:34That is just exactly what he did in pre-practice,
00:37and, you know, at that level, that's just not acceptable.
00:42He's been struggling with the brakes all day, Cecho, as he said,
00:45in pre-practice he had one trip through the gravel,
00:47another almost trip through the gravel at this corner.
00:50We didn't start that issue, man. It was the same f***ing issue, again.
00:55Copy.
00:56That is why we have good old-fashioned gravel traps in Formula 1.
00:59It punishes driver errors.
01:00That's a huge one from Cecho.
01:02First flying lap of the day, he's got no time on the board at all,
01:05and Perez will start last tomorrow.
01:08Bottas pushing on, finished driver in the slipstream,
01:11trying to take it up and over the line.
01:14He improves his time, but not his place,
01:16and Bottas really struggling.
01:19He'll get another go.
01:19There are 18 seconds on the clock.
01:22Magnussen in 10th position.
01:24Someone's been very close to the gravel directly ahead of Pierre Gasly,
01:28who's the driver that we're on board with.
01:30Remember, he was eliminated in Q1 in the first race of the year.
01:34Bottas is done.
01:35He used everything on that lap,
01:36and he was only quick enough for 19th out of 19th,
01:40so he's having a nightmare time at the moment, Valtteri Bottas,
01:43and is not going to improve.
01:44Gasly, 13th.
01:46That's in the danger zone for an Alpine that was looking quick earlier on.
01:49Looked great in practice earlier on.
01:51The checkered flag is flying.
01:52No improvement for Joe Guan Yu.
01:54He couldn't find the lap time.
01:56What about the home favorite?
01:57Can he give them something to cheer?
01:59Oh, Oscar Piastri improves to 16th position,
02:01but he's fallen half a tenth shy in the first part of qualifying.
02:05Sergio Perez found the barriers at turn three.
02:08Bottas, a former winner around these parts,
02:11he is eliminated along with the rookie,
02:13Logan Sargent, Joe Guan Yu,
02:15and the home favorite, Oscar Piastri.
02:20Norris has gone in to Perez's corner a little bit quick,
02:23but not as quick as Checo did,
02:24and that is exactly what I was talking about when Perez went off.
02:27You see that sort of thing a lot of the time.
02:29Drivers going wide into the gravel,
02:31just going off,
02:32and they can rejoin.
02:34Gasly's flying up to four
02:36with that fastest middle sector.
02:38Really good lap.
02:39He only found a couple of tenths,
02:40but he went from 11th to 4th.
02:42That's how close the field is.
02:44Here comes K-Mag then in the other half,
02:46and he's out.
02:4712th.
02:4712th position for Kevin Magnussen.
02:49A 1.18.1 was not good enough.
02:51How about Hülkenberg?
02:52Can he take another step forward?
02:53He can.
02:54He's always been phenomenal around this circuit,
02:57but this is a huge step forward.
03:00De Vries looking for a lap time.
03:01Not a promising lap time.
03:03Looking at the graphic,
03:04and he cuts the beam.
03:06Out he goes.
03:0814th.
03:08It's just a point of pride about who can make it.
03:11Sainz goes over the line.
03:12He goes up to third to displace Hülkenberg.
03:14Tsunoda now trying to reach the third part
03:17of qualifying.
03:18He can get up to 12th ahead of Magnussen,
03:21but now we are just looking.
03:23The driver at risk is Alex Albon.
03:25The driver in ninth.
03:26Now sick is Lewis Hamilton,
03:28who completes his lap.
03:29And what can Lando Norris do?
03:32Personal best in the middle sector.
03:33As Charles Leclerc goes fourth,
03:35and let's see what Norris can do.
03:37He improves to 13th,
03:39but it's no trip to Q3
03:41for the British driver.
03:43And it's P13.
03:44I know.
03:47Okay, checking flag.
03:48Got traffic there.
03:49Yeah, I saw something.
03:52Okay, unfortunately,
03:53that's us out with that.
03:55That was very close.
03:57And it's Ockham,
03:59Tsunoda,
03:59Norris,
04:00Magnussen,
04:01and De Vries
04:02who fall at the second hurdle
04:04and exit qualifying in Q2.
04:07Can Fernando Alonso
04:09displace Max Verstappen
04:11and take provisional pole position?
04:13He can!
04:14Fernando Alonso
04:15to the front of the field
04:16with a 1.17.3.
04:18Can anyone get on top
04:20of Alonso
04:21with seven and a half minutes to go?
04:23Leclerc is going to be first to try
04:25and he goes to the front row
04:27and he gets ahead of Verstappen as well.
04:29Russell in the middle part of the lap
04:30looking good.
04:31His signs though
04:32and he goes ahead of his teammate.
04:35The Mercedes will be next
04:36with Russell now to the front row
04:38and can Lewis Hamilton
04:39find his way there?
04:40He can do better than that!
04:42Lewis Hamilton
04:42to provisional pole position.
04:45Here we go over the line
04:46and he's pipped!
04:48Lewis Hamilton
04:49by nine thousandths of a second.
04:51What a qualifying session!
04:54Verstappen is having his tidiest run
04:56in qualifying so far.
04:58This is the penultimate corner.
05:00It's been such a tight battle so far.
05:02The two-time champion
05:03looking to change that.
05:04Looking for his second pole of the season.
05:07Verstappen across the line
05:08and he blitzes the field
05:10by half a second
05:11to take the battle for pole
05:13out of reach
05:14of everyone in the field.
05:16And now
05:17who can join him
05:18on the front row?
05:19Lance Stroll
05:19first of all across the line.
05:21He improves
05:21to fourth position.
05:23Hamilton is on
05:24personal best
05:25sector one, sector two.
05:26But we join
05:27Fernando Alonso
05:28trying to return
05:29to the front row
05:30and he does so
05:31across the line.
05:32Alonso
05:33up to second position.
05:35Now
05:35can the Mercedes
05:37do anything about
05:38the old master out front?
05:39Sainz has improved.
05:41After he's pushed up
05:42he's moved up
05:42to third place.
05:44So Hamilton
05:44will try and respond.
05:46First of all
05:46Russell finds his way
05:47to the front row
05:48but it's Hamilton
05:49over the line
05:51and he can't match
05:51his teammates' time.
05:53Once again
05:54Russell
05:54is the lead
05:55Mercedes
05:56in Formula 1
05:57qualifying.
05:58Russell
05:59on the front row
06:00with that late effort
06:02across the line.
06:03Personal bests
06:04everywhere you look
06:05for those improving
06:06at the end.
06:07Russell got to the front row.
06:09Hamilton was in the mix.
06:10Alonso will start in fourth.
06:12It's Sainz
06:13ahead of Charles Leclerc.
06:14But when Max Verstappen
06:16found a clean lap
06:17he was in another league
06:19once again.
06:20By two tenths of a second
06:21Verstappen
06:22takes pole position.
06:24I think you're good mate.
06:26That's pole position.
06:27Two and a half tenths
06:28to Russell.
06:29Nice shot.
06:30Good job dad.
06:32Not easy to get the tyres
06:33in the window
06:33but
06:34good quality.
06:36Well done.
06:36Max Verstappen
06:37on pole
06:38for the Australian Grand Prix.
06:39George Russell
06:40in second place
06:42chairing the front row
06:43with him
06:43and then Hamilton
06:44Alonso
06:45Sainz
06:46Stroll
06:46Charles Leclerc
06:47Alex Albon
06:48Pierre Gasly
06:49and Nico Hülkenberg
06:50make up
06:51the grid.
06:51We'll see you next time.
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