00:00It's becoming an all-too-familiar sign, isn't it?
00:02A stricken Aston Martin not out on track in the pit box.
00:06What's going on here with George Russell?
00:08So George stopped, and I thought he was trying to force his way in.
00:12Has he clipped something? Has he tried to get out of the garage?
00:15Because they're replacing the front wing and the nose.
00:17As you can see, it's a really tight exit of the garage.
00:22And of course, with damaging your front wing now, Crafty, what else do we have?
00:26Good active aero.
00:27And if that gets damaged, you might as well park the car.
00:30You said he nudged in somewhere.
00:32Did he clip?
00:34There he is.
00:35Oh, he did, yeah.
00:36He clips Arvid Lindblad in the racing bulls.
00:40And as he was trying to go forward, and that's why they would have replaced the wing.
00:45This guy has just hit my front wing.
00:47This guy has just hit my front wing.
00:50Hang on a minute.
00:52Was there a gap there?
00:53You've got to get parked.
00:54Well, it's all about his wheel going over the white line.
00:57It's when there's a gap.
00:58I look like he's going to stop it.
01:01It's the same as quality.
01:04Let's have another look, shall we?
01:05Have a listen as well.
01:13It went into neutral.
01:14Yeah.
01:15So get off the racing line.
01:24And this is how it looked for Lewis Hampton.
01:28Oh, my goodness.
01:30Chicago, crazy slow on the pitch straight.
01:32Crazy slow on the pitch straight.
01:36Am I right in thinking that Franco could have done himself and everyone else a favor by moving over to
01:42the right a little bit?
01:43And that's why we have the flashing rain lights to warm drivers of a car going slowly under a kind
01:49of super clip situation.
01:50Oh, this is Max stopping.
01:52Oh, that happened to the racing balls of Arvid Lindblad in FP1.
01:57Just drop down.
01:58The revs drop down, drop down.
01:59And then the car stalled.
02:01Same power unit, of course.
02:03Exactly.
02:03Yeah.
02:04So now you swing it to the right hand side before opening up turn 13.
02:08The car just love how they move around.
02:10It's great to see.
02:12And again, through the final corner.
02:13Oh, and there you go at the top of your screen.
02:15So there the stewards have noted, or race control at least, have noted exactly what we were commenting on before.
02:22This looks neat from George Russell.
02:25Just as you said that, the fight begins in the final corner.
02:30What's it going to be?
02:31One.
02:32Well, that cost it.
02:33Yeah.
02:33Sorry, George.
02:34So placing me inside Haas where there's a possibility of a pipeline and a road map back into a Formula
02:401 seat was most important.
02:42What have you made so far of these new cars, these new beasts this year?
02:47Quite strange.
02:48I'm sure you would know it.
02:50Her name was Elsie, but I'm not quite sure.
02:51What's that going to be up to?
02:53So this is turn five.
02:55Oh, that's usually flat out that corner.
02:59It's not been yet.
03:02And that's what's scary about this track.
03:04Maybe down at 10 kg fuel, we're going to be flat at 6 kg fuel.
03:09Hang on, Fernando's looking side to side here.
03:14Is he just getting out of the way?
03:16I hope so.
03:18But that doesn't sound good, does it?
03:20Oh, dear.
03:22Oh, that's really slow, isn't it?
03:26Oh, he's getting into it.
03:28So he had a problem with the power unit when it fired up this morning that was different to the
03:33problems that they've been experiencing before then.
03:36That just sounds horrible, doesn't it?
03:38I'm answering the question.
03:39Indirectly no commenting.
03:41Look at this moment for Antonio Hayek to have 10.10.
03:44We spoke about this before as well.
03:47The car's sparking away.
03:48But no, I mean, we were saying the days of sandbagging might be more of a thing of the past.
03:54They're notoriously difficult to slow down as well.
03:57We see a lot of inconsistencies so far with these new power units and new regulations.
04:02And, yeah.
04:03Turn three is also just, you know, you're not straight line braking.
04:07It's bumpy, as you can see, that car right there.
04:10Great shot in the slow-mo as well.
04:11You really get to see exactly the movement at the front axle as it's going over those bumps.
04:15And, yeah, once it locks, it's so hard to unlock them.
04:19Maybe he didn't stop the car.
04:21You know, going over the bumps, couldn't put the brake pressure on.
04:24Post bumps put a bit, you know, was holding a bit of pressure while turning.
04:27And when we see the lock-up.
04:28I hope he's on relative fuel compared to his teammate more experienced, obviously, Lawson.
04:33And we've got another lock-up into the tricky turn three.
04:37And you know what?
04:38We have to, as we did in Bahrain testing, it's not all driver, this.
04:43You know, it happens too frequently for us to keep leaning on the driver and say,
04:49Oh, you know, they've got to work out their braking zone or it's the bumps, blah, blah, blah.
04:53It's taken from the same make-up as the racing circuits.
04:57And they will have the tyres from Pirelli to test it on.
05:00But they can't put exact loads through it all the time.
05:02The Astro could go quickest here, by the way, as he crosses the line now and does by two-tenths
05:07of a second.
05:08It's tandem with Red Bull powertrains.
05:09It could be that a moment like Max Verstappen just had really does cost you a couple of rows.
05:15And there's another lock-up going into turn three, like turn one and turn ten in Bahrain and testing.
05:21This is becoming quite commonplace.
05:25Yeah, you know, drivers arriving into a braking zone at different speeds.
05:28The engine doing something different when they put their foot on the brake.
05:31And in terms of the engine braking, it's...
05:34Let's see how it plays out.
05:34It's Formula One.
05:35It's early days.
05:36The technology is awesome.
05:38And I think we just got to, you know, it's early days of very new regulations.
05:42See how things develop.
05:44We'll get there at the end.
05:45Is there any team, Zach, McLaren included, Lance Stroll, box, box, we have an issue.
05:52Uh-oh.
05:52That's a familiar radio message, I'm afraid, for him throughout the testing period and so far this weekend.
05:58We said earlier they haven't been able to run low fuel because Honda don't really want them to because they...
06:04Whoa, ten!
06:05Oh, something happened.
06:05Max Verstappen.
06:06Big off in ten.
06:07Turn ten.
06:08Big off.
06:08Managed to hold it and get back out on the track.
06:11And this time last year, that might have been careering even more to the barriers, but that has damaged the
06:16underside.
06:17Uh, the tea tray, the bits of carbon fibre have come off as well.
06:21That, uh, was quite a nervy, scary moment even for a full-time world champion.
06:30Here we go, Conti.
06:51Left, that I see fly off.
06:55It...
06:56No.
06:56It's a bit of the floor.
06:58Looks like a bit of the, the, the rear of the floor.
07:00But Ted is down there.
07:01He's going to see it come in under his nose, I'm sure.
07:04What would you do?
07:05Would you pit or would you carry on?
07:08Uh, pit, uh, change my Nomex underwear.
07:10Um, hopefully by that time, the car was fixed and I can get back out of it.
07:14Yeah.
07:15Max is carrying on.
07:17Uh, so therefore Nomex, no change for Max Verstappen.
07:23And he carries on.
07:24And that was Charles Leclerc having his own little grass-cutting moment.
07:27Uh, down at, uh, what, just under 18?
07:29Radio.
07:30Sergio Perez has stopped the car.
07:32Oh, no.
07:33They've got another issue, I'm afraid.
07:34He's not even had a chance to get a full lap in.
07:37And just before turn 12, Sergio Perez has had to pull over to the side and stop his Cadillac.
07:44What a frustrating, Ted Kravitz, afternoon for him and the team.
07:48And all the Cadillac mechanics.
07:50I mean, all these mechanics have been doing all-nighters with the delay to the freight,
07:53um, because of the, uh, the, the flight disruption worldwide.
07:57And, uh, they've been working so hard to get it ready for this session.
08:00So, uh.
08:01Very hard to drive and probably going to see with Isaac Hadjar, his teammate,
08:05into 13 under the brakes once again.
08:08You know, they're, they're unpredictable beasts to, to try and handle.
08:12And that's all part of a driver's skill,
08:14as well as the mental capacity you need these days
08:17to make sure you're ticking those boxes off,
08:20as from the engineers have told you to lift off in this zone.
08:23That's such a counter-intuitive thing for the driver.
08:27Question for you, then, as Charles Leclerc is the next one to lock up,
08:31going to turn three.
08:32On your dash, do you have a state of charge display
08:35where at least you know what your battery's got
08:38to be able to give you coming out of the corner?
08:41Yeah, I mean, absolutely you do.
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