00:00so because he wants to try and leave two new sets of soft if he gets to q3 exactly that's
00:06what they're fighting for at red bull uh will they have enough lap time to see them through to
00:13to optimize those four sets of tires or will they have to use two sets in q2 charlotte claire goes
00:20slightly behind max verstappen that bodes well for red bull and for verstappen on their first
00:26runs and lewis hamilton only fifth fastest on the medium tire now he's got plenty of time to get
00:32back in put a set of softs on but is that an indication that the medium might not be the
00:36one
00:36to be on because super cup is always worse in qualifying by the way because you have that
00:41extra half megajoule to app to use so it goes from eight and a half to nine megajoules per lap
00:46so hence
00:47you have to find that extra power from somewhere the extra recovery from somewhere so he goes top
00:52of the timesheets for now he did have the fastest middle sector as well until that was what happened
00:57to lewis hamilton on his lap on the medium tires return 80 goes into nine whoa that was almost a
01:04full
01:05spin there but um yeah the line that he took through eight was fine and then just lost the rear
01:10end
01:10midway to the exit of that corner i think so we can last it feels good the car just uh
01:15has snapped
01:1760 on the braking
01:20corner that's really lost time yesterday to russell in q3 and a nice tidy lap there i believe on older
01:26tires and six and a half tenths up in piastri yeah so putting nearly seven tenths ahead of the
01:32mclaren and now he was about a tenth up on george russell through the first two sectors yesterday in
01:38sprint qualifying george russell was a lot stronger in the final sector and history's repeated itself
01:43right there best place to do it's the end of the straight and uh and you just refill the battery
01:48for the next time you want to put your foot down like here towards the line and you finish a
01:52qualifying
01:52lap with absolutely nothing left in the battery but philando norris nearly three tenths off the pace
01:59of george russell so far charles leclerc next across the line goes quickest max verstappen in the short term
02:05is that those behind him whilst putting in personal best sectors are not coming up with
02:11the times that max verstappen is hadjar goes seventh fastest verstappen goes fourth fastest and set the
02:16fastest final sector how does that driver bring the car's neck like that and and get performance out
02:23of it it's it didn't look like that car should be worthy of being up in p4 that is down
02:28in that bottom
02:29six had a great dream start didn't he with eighth place in melbourne he's up to 11th there that's
02:36another fine lap there from arvid limblad uh next across the line lance stroll stays down in the bottom
02:42six uh second from bottom from him in the aston martin whilst fernando alonso is a couple of places
02:48ahead so aston martin once again both out in q1 and franco colopinto who got into q2 in melbourne
02:55i think has done it very much here as well portoleto goes seventh fastest good lap from here
03:00anex album parking is williams
03:07now he's not had much to say positive about the car so far the car just squirming around
03:13ever so slightly and feed the car in try and carry as much minimum speed as you can
03:18through that final corner of 16. so it's a 132.9 he's about three and a half tenths up on
03:24his best
03:24time from q1 george russell's been faster throughout this lap and goes quicker by about half a second
03:31seems to have quite the margin on his teammates well that continue on into q3 i wonder hamilton with the
03:38fastest middle sector leclerc goes second fastest ahead of kimmy antonelli by about five one hundredths of a
03:45second but can lewis hamilton now challenge george russell get the fastest time no by three tenths of a
03:50second he slots into p2 aggressively you want to minimize that wheel spin and uh any twitchiness from
03:59the car at the rear now through that final corner he goes what's it going to be as a cross
04:02line good
04:02enough for p5 ahead of verstappen's lap like for like on new tires of course that i think's the important
04:08thing there mclaren ahead of the red bull charl leclerc goes quickest though 132.4 for a man a bit
04:14more
04:14advanced on the progression scale in this session lewis hamilton stays third fastest this stop to
04:21the final corner here we are with arvid limbladz and gabriel bortoletto as on our driver tracker there
04:29he is in the gravel and trying to get going again but if you are on a lap and a
04:35double waved yellow
04:37is being shown that's it your lap time gets deleted so oh that's if you're passing that zone so for
04:44arvid limblad absolutely no chance for him and he's out bortoletto now manages to get going
04:50again it's franco color pinto who we're looking at here can he do it oh by five one thousandths of
04:57a
04:57second he misses out hulkenberg thought he was close color pinto was close and isaac had just like
05:05yeah not close enough boys wow that was close wasn't it for for hadjar i really thought that colin pinto
05:11was going to do that there he looked like right something's not right major understeer says george
05:17russell who was third fastest uh in that session you've got to feel a bit for arvid limbladz who
05:23was looking pretty handy but he came across the double yellows his lap time got deleted as he went
05:29through this sector and the double yellows were out because gabriel bortoletto did that
05:35i've seen a few drivers touching that curb before turning into the final corner and it can upset
05:40the car i wonder if that's just what happened there for him it's not a hugely heavy braking zone
05:46there's a big old big old knock to the left rear of that of that car and the rear wing
05:51that will
05:51probably need changing but um yeah poor old bortoletto i think just maybe took a bit too much of that
05:57kind
05:58of entry curb on the right hand side that's all it takes when when these drivers are right on the
06:03limit like that yeah see the i think it just unstabilized the car did well to catch it but it
06:09sent the car into a tank slapper and that gravel trap's not quite big enough to slow it down in
06:15time
06:15which accounted for the oh george russell stopped right looks okay now it's not um to check boost
06:23i've got a massive engine break in here
06:28and he's also said on the radio i've got no battery i've got no battery toto wolf looks a
06:34little bit stunned by that and you can hear the capacity crowd here in shanghai uh well absolutely
06:41stunned as george russell sits motionless in terms of his car in the middle of the track marcus
06:49dudley as race engineer will be giving him instructions but he has got it going again
06:53to that and he starts a lap i cannot chip the ears stuck in fast
07:00well that's gonna be a long painful run back to the pits isn't it and the young italian then
07:05round the final corner this is the time they all have to beat for pole position it's a 132
07:11three he's gonna declare who has never been on pole here in shanghai before started the last two
07:17grand prix in sixth position here did it for the sprint race as well and he is on the front
07:21row but only
07:22the front row by about three tenths and hamilton has a lot to make up after a disappointing middle
07:28sector for him across the line with lewis hamilton and it's p3 only to the pits and he is being
07:34pushed
07:34back into the garage and is this where lewis hamilton lost his time in the middle part of the lap
07:39well we had an oversteer moment there before and the similar kind of thing happening once again
07:43really fighting that ferrari through the apex of turn nine and then in between
07:49nine and ten and it just hemorrhages lap time when you have that kind of most such an important
07:55corner or series of corners on the track what happened to leclaire in 11 and 12 looked good on
08:01through 11 but they're just struggling to get on power
08:05here comes kimmy antonelli can he extend his advantage out in front yes he can it's a 1 32 zero
08:12to go and get pole position and lando norris is the first to cross the line and chase it down
08:18can
08:19norris do it for mclaren for a second year in a row piastri last year not norris this year only
08:25p3
08:25his teammate still on the front row charles leclaire then for ferrari can he come to the party it's the
08:32front row only for charles leclaire and there's three tenths of a second difference between kimmy
08:38antonelli and the rest hamilton crosses the line and he goes to the front row six-time pole sitter
08:44here in shanghai and he's on p2 at the moment isaac hadja was p3 on the grid in melbourne last
08:49week he's
08:50p7 currently ahead of his teammate max verstappen who's the next driver to cross the line and verstappen
08:56replaces hadjar in that p7 carlo fisichella in 2009 for force india the last
09:02italian to take pole for a grand prix is an antonelli's day is it russell's day it's kimmy
09:08antonelli on pole position the youngest pole sitter in grand prix history george russell on the front row
09:16it is a mercedes front row lockout but it wasn't smooth sailing for the british driver all the
09:22problems came his way at the end his teammates taken advantage that in the circumstances was a
09:29fine lap by george russell but let's give a round of applause he was on pole for the miami sprint
09:34last
09:35year now he's done it in a grand prix kimmy antonelli nice work me that's a pole position mate yeah
09:42let's go
09:42man
09:43you
09:43you
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