00:02Lando Norris goes over the line in fourth, less than a tenth of a second, separating the top four on
00:07the road.
00:08Lewis Hamilton wants to get out of the bottom five as he crosses the line.
00:11He goes to 11th, and now it's Hülkenberg, Alonso, Albon, Ricciardo and Joe in the bottom five.
00:19You can go over the line and start a lap all the way to the checkered flag being waived,
00:24but Alex Albon now trying to take the best from his tyres at the end,
00:27trying to get through into the next stage of qualifying for the sprint race,
00:32and he goes to 15th, which leaves him vulnerable.
00:34If Hülkenberg can fight back, he's got the time to knock out Alex Albon.
00:40Fernando Alonso over the line with the 11th fastest time.
00:42Daniel Ricciardo moves up to 14th position.
00:46Sargent, Bottas, Albon, Gasly and Joe.
00:49Here comes Logan Sargent trying to respond.
00:50He does respond as off the road we go in the background with Yuki Tsunoda.
00:55The yellow flag is out for that driver, and Pierre Gasly finds himself trying to push on as well.
01:02He's going to avoid it, I think.
01:04Gasly might be able to finish this time here, so Hülkenberg is out.
01:07So is Bottas, so is Albon, and now Gasly's trying to get himself into the next stage,
01:13along with his teammate as well, but it's Gasly in 19th.
01:16Needs a lap.
01:16You can see the gravel in the background there.
01:18Gasly finds the time, and now it's Tsunoda on the brink.
01:22Daniel Ricciardo is eliminated, and it's Esteban not going to find his way through.
01:27This is going to be the replay of it.
01:29Into turn 9, so on his final lap, he ended up right on the cusp.
01:32Oh!
01:33That'll do the flat spots then.
01:35Yeah.
01:36Ricciardo is all good, Bottas.
01:38Understood.
01:41Ricciardo, Hülkenberg, Bottas, Albon and Joe fall at the first hurdle.
01:48Absolute commitment here.
01:50This is actually the body language of the car.
01:53It was all looking so beautiful, and then that will have cost him a little bit of time.
01:58And Esteban Ocon, a couple of corners from home.
02:00This is what turn 10 looks like on board.
02:03And then stand on the throttle across the line.
02:06Where can you go?
02:07You can go ahead of Stroll.
02:09But you'd expect that given Stroll's moment at that corner.
02:12Tsunoda is the next one over the line.
02:14Gasly's going better from 13th without a time on the board.
02:18Alonso's going nicely as well.
02:19Magnussen has the fastest first sector of anyone in that short first sector.
02:22The only Haas remaining.
02:24And Sargent's in the mix as well.
02:25It's a short lap, and they're all gunning it on this final one.
02:28So, Gasly over the line, behind his teammate, but ahead of Stroll and Tsunoda.
02:33Alonso at a track where he's never really enjoyed this configuration.
02:37He's behind his teammate, even though his teammate had that moment.
02:41That's a strange one.
02:42He must have had an error himself on that lap.
02:44Magnussen with the fastest first sector of anyone so far.
02:47Sargent is 14th.
02:48We have one driver yet to put a time on the board.
02:51Kevin Magnussen finished as high as 5th here in the Grand Prix in the past.
02:56And he gets to the brink of the top 10, but he's half a tenth down.
03:00We had a big slide in the last corner.
03:02Yeah, that looked lively.
03:04Yeah.
03:04Yeah, he already lost the back end as he was going through the apex.
03:08Great job from Alpi.
03:10Again, both cars into the top 10.
03:12They're becoming consistent top 10 runners.
03:16Let's get cracking, mate.
03:17Everyone's going to send it now.
03:18Better leadership from the cockpit.
03:20George wants to go.
03:21George Russell not shy about sharing his opinion.
03:25Look at this.
03:26That Alpine, that looks like Gasly right at the back of the field.
03:29Look, Leclerc is pulling off.
03:30There is a problem for Charles Leclerc.
03:32And the yellow flag is flying in the pit lane.
03:35They're coasting out of the pit lane.
03:37And the winner of the Monaco Grand Prix has come to a halt.
03:40As everyone else is out there, has he found a reset?
03:43Looks like he has, but he's going to be getting tight now.
03:47Meanwhile, we're not looking at the outlaps.
03:49We're looking at the push laps.
03:50Lewis Hamilton, a two-time winner around this circuit.
03:53They went out early.
03:55You heard George Russell say it's time to get on with this.
03:57You can see why.
03:58Some drivers are not going to get a chance.
04:01And Hamilton's not going to be too far away from making his way past those pushing on an outlap.
04:07Yeah, sorry, Alex.
04:08I just saw he was drifting into turn three, as it's called, on this lap.
04:13And that's cost them some time.
04:14Yeah, he did a really good first sector.
04:16Best of the weekend so far.
04:18Just beat now by Piastri by 200s.
04:20But rolled off the brakes there up their hill into the apex of turn three.
04:23Just slithered wide.
04:24And that'll cost Hamilton, I thought, quite a lot of time on the run down.
04:29Right, Hamilton will be the first driver to cut the beam.
04:33Charles Leclerc is around turn number nine.
04:35Leclerc's going to be in trouble.
04:37Everyone else did get over the line.
04:39Wait to see the checkered flag logo next to Charles Leclerc's name.
04:42It means he hasn't got there if he comes across the line.
04:46And Hamilton puts a 1.05.270 on the board.
04:51The snap is the fastest man now in the first sector,
04:54but it's very close between him and Piastri.
04:56Russell goes ahead of his teammate by two tenths of a second.
05:00Charles Leclerc did not make it.
05:01There's the checkered flag logo.
05:02He's the first driver to take the flag.
05:04Now, Oscar Piastri in the McLaren.
05:06Goes ahead of Russell.
05:07Goes ahead of Hamilton.
05:09And it's a 1.04.9.
05:11Can Lando Norris beat that now?
05:12As he looks to take his third sprint pole.
05:15And he's two tenths of a second ahead of his teammate.
05:19McLaren front row as it stands.
05:20Into the mix comes Carlos Sainz in the Scarlet Ferrari.
05:25He is into fourth position.
05:26Can Verstappen respond?
05:28You've got a few seconds to wait for your answer.
05:31Verstappen gets ahead by less than a tenth of a second.
05:35It's hundreds once again.
05:37But it's Verstappen who repays the favor
05:40after Spanish Grand Prix qualifying.
05:42When Norris was ahead of him by two hundredths,
05:45nine hundredths separate.
05:47Verstappen from Norris.
05:48They're on the front row again.
05:49This time it will be for the sprint.
05:52Perez is in seventh.
05:53Ocon eighth.
05:54Gasly in ninth.
05:55And Charles Leclerc didn't get a chance
05:58to set a lap time after a problem in the pit lane.
06:01What the hell happened, guys?
06:04We took the anti-stall.
06:05Thank you, but the anti-stall kind of stopped the engine.
06:09The engine switched off.
06:11I don't know if you noticed.
06:13There was no engine.
06:14Ignition went to off.
06:16So I had to redo the whole thing.
06:19Copy box.
06:20We'll talk about it inside the garage.
06:23And Max Verstappen, who has won the Grand Prix here as low as fourth.
06:27One year he dropped down to ninth on the opening lap.
06:29Still came back to win.
06:30But it's the front of the field for him.
06:32It's pole position.
06:33And the Orange Army, they are cheering once more.
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