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00:00...чарging and when to use the boost and when not to, looking after your tyres is still pretty important too.
00:05So did Lewis just take a bit of the edge off his tyres in the first part?
00:09Yeah, possibly. You know, it is a really tough section on these cars.
00:13There's a lot of change direction, where it's very loaded as well, especially in Turn 7 Dunlop.
00:18So it's, you know, for the tyres, it's eating them up quite badly.
00:23So that's the top 10. As it stands currently, just outside the top 10, Max Verstappen in P11.
00:28His record when starting outside the top 10. 26 starts, 2 wins, 7 podium finishes.
00:35That's what he's going to have to aim for tomorrow, starting outside the top 10 in the Japanese Grand Prix.
00:40And he's talking to Rachel Brooks.
00:43Hi, Max. We were looking at your car and it looks like it's really hard to get the front turned
00:49in, get it loaded up to turn in.
00:51But it sounds like you're having a lot more, you're having a lot more issues than that, many more issues
00:56than that.
00:56What's going on?
00:57Yeah, well, the car never turns mid-corner, but at the same time, this weekend also, again, we just oversteer
01:04a lot on entries.
01:05So, yeah, it's really difficult, unpredictable.
01:09We thought we'd fix it a little bit.
01:12Yeah, we thought we'd fix it a little bit in FP3. I mean, there's still a lot of uncertainty in
01:18the car, but now in qualifying, it was, again, for me, undriveable.
01:21So that's something that we need to look at. I mean, also, I'm driving with a different error package this
01:27weekend, but it seems like that's not working.
01:28So that's also not very good.
01:31Did you say jumping on the straights, was it?
01:33No, in the corners.
01:34In the corners?
01:35Yeah.
01:36So when you say undriveable, can you help us explain to the fans in what sense that is?
01:42Things that I cannot explain in detail here that we know are there, sometimes a bit worse than other times,
01:48and I think in qualifying, it just came back to a point where, yeah, it became undriveable.
01:53All right. Thanks, Max.
01:55Everything they try and fix at Red Bull might cure one problem, but you get the feeling, Jensen, that it
02:00induces another issue.
02:02Yeah, you know, he's so used to putting front end into a car, and that gives the car overall downforce
02:07previously, but it seems that they're adding that front downforce, and it's really hurting the rear.
02:14So trying to balance this car seems to be quite difficult for Max.
02:16So good morning to you. If you're just waking up in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, we've got
02:22four minutes of this Q3 session to go, and it's all looking good for Kimi Antonelli currently.
02:27George Russell, his teammate, has been a consistent three-tenths down and is struggling with rear-end grip in his
02:32car.
02:33McLaren have jumped to third and fourth and have gone ahead of the two Ferraris who had an earlier pace
02:38advantage over the Papaya team.
02:41Leclerc fifth, Hamilton sixth, and Bernie Collins, you've been looking into Lewis's problems and troubles.
02:46Yeah, just trying to have a quick look to understand Croft, and he actually looks faster than Charles Leclerc in
02:51most of the corners, and does seem to get a slightly better exit initially.
02:56Then he seems to lose, particularly in the last two straights, so maybe some of that early deployment out of
03:01the corner is actually costing him later in the straights.
03:05So we think we had, Jenson had a conversation with Oli Berman at one point about last week, potentially how
03:11quickly you get on the brakes and on throttle, then damaging you later on in the straights.
03:15So maybe something from that side for Ferrari to look at for Lewis.
03:19And then quickly across the two Mercedes drivers, Russell Carr looks much more stable in the high-speed now in
03:25that first run of Q3.
03:28The only thing that was challenging Russell, I think, was that section three, turn 12, 13, out of the hairpin.
03:34So maybe a slight mistake in the hairpin that then cost him through that next section.
03:38Thanks ever so much, Bernie.
03:39It is a bit counterintuitive to a Formula One driver.
03:42You want to get on the power as early as you can, but now patience is rewarded.
03:46It is, but you are getting the power down quicker, so you're getting up to your maximum speed quicker.
03:52You might lose more speed, but you've got up to the speed quicker, so it's a tricky one to know
03:57the best way around it.
04:01So, Suzuka qualifying.
04:03How important.
04:04Since 1991, the winner has come from lower than the front row here on only three occasions.
04:10Fernando Alonso in 06, Kimi Räikkönen from 17th in an amazing race in 2005, and Valtteri Bottas from 3rd in
04:182019.
04:20We've also had, in 35 previous races here, 16 front row lockouts for five different teams.
04:27We are on for a 17th front row lockout in 36th Grand Prix here at Suzuka, unless the rest can
04:34challenge.
04:34And here's the man they've got to challenge once again, it's Kimi Antonelli on provisional pole.
04:41The youngest Grand Prix pole setter in the history of the sport.
04:44The man who was born on the day that Sebastian Vettel made his FP1 debut, Turkey, in 2006.
04:51And he took the record off Sebastian Vettel in Shanghai last time out.
04:54How's he looking through the S's on this lap, Jensen?
04:57Oh, it's very edgy. This looks quick.
05:00You know, I think now he's like, you know what, I can give it 101% to really see what
05:05I can achieve with this car.
05:07I've got the banker in, and he's a little bit up on his quickest lap.
05:10Yeah, just a touch-up on his quickest lap, but not the best first sector that we've had so far.
05:14And his teammate George Russell does go that little bit faster.
05:18Russell's problems come, and they start here.
05:20And they've started here for Antonelli, a lock-up into the hairpin.
05:23He did. He ran wide from the apex, and then you're just waiting to get on throttle there until you
05:27turn the car.
05:28Lando Norris not improving through the first sector.
05:31Lewis Hamilton has been shown a black-and-white flag for going too slow in the pit exits, in the
05:37pit exit road.
05:39So the stewards have already had a little look at Lewis on that one.
05:42So, Norris not improving.
05:45Hajar out of it in terms of the first sector.
05:48Antonelli with that lock-up, that has cost him in the middle part of the lap.
05:52But he's still in touch, and he's still on provisional pole.
05:55And quicker than George in the middle sector.
05:56And they're not all improving out there currently.
05:59The wind has dropped down.
06:00The temperature of the track has changed a little bit.
06:02Are conditions working against the drivers I don't know.
06:05Kimi Antonelli on provisional pole.
06:07And it's a 1.28.7 that they're having to aim for.
06:10And George Russell hasn't managed it.
06:12And he ends up four tenths down.
06:14It could be two poles in two races here for the young Italian Kimi Antonelli.
06:19Lando Norris driving to the line, takes the shortcut, ends up P4 still for him.
06:26Can Oscar Fiastri put his McLaren onto the front row?
06:29Possibly no.
06:30He stays four tenths down.
06:31P3 for him.
06:33Charles Leclerc goes fastest in the first sector.
06:35That's where the challenge to Antonelli is going to come from.
06:38Italian driver on pole.
06:40Italian team chasing him.
06:42And Ferrari only won pole at Suzuka in the last 20 years.
06:46And that was Sebastian Vettel in 2019.
06:49Hamilton stays down in P6.
06:51It's down to Charles Leclerc.
06:53Yeah, beautiful first sector for him.
06:55He's coming into Spoon now.
06:57Oh, he's got a little bit of understeer there.
06:59But the car, oh no, big snap of oversteer.
07:01Oh, that's the time gone.
07:03You lose so much time down the straight with a snap of oversteer like that.
07:06Let's see what he is, what he's done.
07:07Get your exit wrong.
07:09And then you are a sitting duck, really, in terms of the timings down that straight.
07:13He's lost three tenths, Charles Leclerc.
07:15And I'll be thinking, no, not again.
07:17Last time out in Shanghai, he lost half a second down the straight, didn't he?
07:21And that cost him dearly in China.
07:23Gasly goes seventh fastest ahead of Hadjar and Bortoletto.
07:26Charles Leclerc's P4.
07:28It's a fiftieth, the pole position for an Italian driver in Formula One.
07:32Kimi Antonelli has done it again.
07:35And Kimi Antonelli, what a lap.
07:37Three tenths on his teammate, George Russell.
07:40Very, very impressive.
07:41And he has looked impressive.
07:43It has to be said throughout the second and third part of qualifying.
07:47And however much the struggles have been evident for George Russell,
07:50he has just shone through.
07:53And that 128-7 might have taken some beating anyway.
07:56It's a second pole then for the young man.
08:00And a first Mercedes front row lockout at Suzuka since 2018.
08:06It is a seventeenth front row lockout in 36 Japanese Grand Prix's here.
08:11Nice work, Kimi.
08:12Pole position, mate.
08:14Let's go, man.
08:15What?
08:17It's a shame the last lap because it was a good one.
08:20But, yeah, good.
08:23I'm happy.
08:24It was a good quality.
08:25Happy.
08:26It was a good quality.
08:27Yeah, good, clean session.
08:28Yeah, apart from that one lockout that he's going to reflect on.
08:33I know.
08:34Just put it on pole.
08:35Yeah, just quite all the celebrations.
08:36Yeah, sorry about the lockout, everybody.
08:38It didn't matter in the end.
08:39Both of his laps were good enough for pole position.
08:42Yeah.
08:42Very impressive.
08:44Absolutely.
08:45Arvid Lindblad down in tenth.
08:48Gabriel Bortoleto alongside him on row five.
08:50Isaac Hajar alongside Pierre Gasly.
08:53Norris and Hamilton sharing row three.
08:57Charles Leclerc will be sitting in P4 thinking,
09:00that could have been.
09:01It could have been good enough for a front row potentially.
09:04Certainly could have been good enough to go ahead of Oscar Piastri.
09:07Yeah, he's put himself in a position now that it's,
09:10you know, their starts are very good in the race.
09:12But to challenge Kimi on pole position from P4 is going to be very tricky.
09:16Mercedes will be very happy that Ferrari is in fourth and sixth.
09:20Well, we have seen two Mercedes go from fourth to first already this season on the grid.
09:25They do get something of a lightning start.
09:29Don't put it past Charles Leclerc to be right in there going into turn one.
09:34And then we've got a race on our hands once again.
09:37And Oscar Piastri will start from third on the grid once more here in Suzuka.
09:42It's where he started last year, of course, finishing third,
09:45which he's done a couple of times here.
09:48I feel that we've seen a different Kimi this weekend.
09:51He's always been extremely quick, but the consistency is there.
09:54He's driving within himself.
09:55He's not overdriving.
09:56And to see how good he's been all the way through the practice sessions
09:59and the consistency in qualifying we saw there really is impressive.
10:03Yeah, the young man who said last year that he reflected on his mistakes for long periods
10:10is now reflecting on success.
10:13The difference that that makes Charles Leclerc not happy with this moment at all.
10:18He was so frightened of the car there.
10:21Yeah, I'm surprised he didn't lose more time through that section.
10:24That is a big snap of oversteering in an F1 car.
10:28That cost him three, four tenths right in that very moment.
10:33Meanwhile.
10:35That was still, oh, that was George's second lap, wasn't it?
10:40Yeah.
10:41Clunks the kerb quite hard, which threw the car just way too far in that back end there
10:49to the left-hand side.
10:51And that's where George is losing time on that one.
10:54Yeah, Kimi Antonelli, you know, he had that FP1 session.
10:58The parabolical he crashed for Mercedes when, you know, all the pressure was on him.
11:03He was going to be the next big thing.
11:04And he openly admitted that he reflected on that for way too long.
11:08But now he's got his success in the memory bank.
11:12And Jean-Alaissi, with a microphone in his hand,
11:14wanting to talk to him as a pole setter in a Grand Prix once more.
11:19Let's hear from the top three.
11:22Kimi, what a pole position.
11:24Tell us from the inside.
11:26Yeah, I'm super happy with the session.
11:29It was a good one.
11:30It was a clean one.
11:31And I felt very good in the car.
11:34And every run I was just improving and improving.
11:38And it was a shame for the last lap because I locked up in turn 11.
11:41But it was a good one as well.
11:43So I'm not really happy with the session.
11:45And I will focus on to tomorrow.
11:46We enjoy a lot from outside.
11:48Thank you so much.
11:50George, you have a hard time now in the team.
11:54Yeah, he did a great job again.
11:56Really strange session for us.
11:57I mean, we were both very fast all weekend.
12:00We made some adjustments in after FP3.
12:03And then at the beginning of qualifying, we were nowhere.
12:06So we need to kind of understand.
12:08Very lucky again to be in P2.
12:10You know, the last two weekends, it's kind of both gone wrong come qualifying.
12:13But the race is tomorrow and still a lot to play for.
12:16Oscar, finally, a good start of the weekend.
12:20Yeah, I mean, I think qualifying has been okay this year.
12:22But yeah, nice to get into the top three.
12:25I think this weekend we've looked good.
12:27And I think we've executed well.
12:29You know, we clearly don't have the pace or the grip to match Mercedes still.
12:33But we're getting closer, which is the most important thing.
12:35Well done.
12:37Kimi, you will wake up the whole Italy tomorrow morning.
12:42Everybody will watch you.
12:43But we are in Japan and you see the fans.
12:46Say something to them.
12:47Yeah, I mean, the fans here in Japan are pretty incredible.
12:51You know, there's so much passion.
12:53And, you know, racing in such an historic track is an incredible feeling.
12:58You know, the track is unbelievable to drive with this kind of cars.
13:01And plus, you know, the fans give us a little bit more of a boost going on when we're on
13:06track.
13:07So thank you so much for coming.
13:08And yeah, arigato.
13:18Huge congratulations then to Kimi Antonelli.
13:23What a day for him.
13:24The crucial question is, can he convert that second career pole to a second career win tomorrow?
13:31We'll have George Russell breathing down his neck and a revitalized Oscar Piastri.
13:37So these are the times you need to join us tomorrow.
13:40Set the alarm.
13:41Because we've got all the build-up to the Japanese Grand Prix from 4.30 in the morning.
13:46You may want to pull an all-nighter for the race start of 6 a.m.
13:50And all of this to look forward to in the build-up.
13:57It's not a normal Sunday drive.
13:59It's not a let's grab a latte and cruise situation.
14:03It's 22 warriors strapped to ground-bound rocket ships.
14:10There's obviously been a lot of talk about the regulation changes.
14:13I can understand it can be frustrating.
14:15But can you also see it in a positive way?
14:17It's a new challenge.
14:18And I would also say if you can figure it out, then you can get on top of it and
14:22make it a benefit.
14:26Lewis Hamilton will stand on the podium as a Ferrari driver for the first time.
14:32Third place here in Shanghai.
14:34I've been trying to get that podium for a long time.
14:36It felt like I never had to work so hard just to get a podium.
14:40I was very, very grateful and it felt like the first even though I've been fortunate to have had quite
14:45a few.
14:50So a packed morning for you tomorrow.
14:52Packed weekend of sport as well.
14:54Across all of our channels, it's the start of the IPL season.
14:57Royal Challengers Bengaluru take on Sunrisers Hyderabad.
15:00That's at 1.50.
15:02And then tennis, Yannick Sinner is one victory away from a sunshine double of wins at both Indian Wells and
15:08Miami.
15:09He'll become one of only seven men to have ever completed that feat if he beats Yurila Hechka.
15:14And then world number one, Irina Zabalenka takes on the number four seed Coco Gough in the women's final at
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15:21Both on Sky Sports Tennis.
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15:32It's summoned on the most sacred fairways in golf at Augusta National Golf Club.
15:39And coming up later, Jamie Dornan hosts Saturday Night Live UK with musical guest Wolf Alice.
15:46It's one you really don't want to miss.
15:48That's at 10 o'clock tonight on Sky One.
15:56But back here in Suzuka, it's 19-year-old Kimi Antonelli, who's put it on pole.
16:04Three-tenths ahead of his teammate George Russell.
16:07We'll analyse it all after this short break.
16:20Welcome back to Japan, where Kimi Antonelli has secured the second pole of his career.
16:27Both his laps in Q3 were good enough for them both.
16:30Let's hear from his team boss now.
16:34Well, Toto, many congratulations wrapping up the front row of the grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.
16:38A, have you noticed a change in Kimi since he won the first Grand Prix?
16:42And B, is there a confidence about him?
16:47Is there a bit of a confidence about him?
16:48Yeah, I think when you hear his radio communications also in the intercom in the garage, it's just calm.
16:56Not putting himself too much under pressure.
16:58Putting that one lap in, that was very good.
17:02Bono told him, put a banker in.
17:04And then he pushed it a little bit hard on the last one, and it wasn't so good.
17:07But, yeah, it's really pleasing to see.
17:09Okay, can you tell us what's going on with George?
17:13Yeah, I think we did probably a set-up twerk on the other side.
17:18Something we did, we expected to have less impact than it had,
17:23and it put the car in the nose, so too much oversteer.
17:26And that made it very difficult for him.
17:29Is that to protect any sort of sets of tyres for the race, or is that something you can change
17:35for tomorrow?
17:35No, it's probably the opposite.
17:37I think he needs to carry this into the race now, which is certainly a disadvantage, but these things happen.
17:41I've never thought of George as the one who likes twerks or twerking, so he'll have to get over that,
17:46I think.
17:47I hope I used the right word.
17:49I mean, we did a mistake instead of twerking.
17:52I think it was a... I mean, twerking is never a mistake.
17:55Maybe he did a tweak to the car that was bad, and I think a twerk might be something else.
18:00Anyway, we'll leave...
18:01Maybe it was just a change that ran wrong.
18:04Anyway, a good day for Mercedes.
18:06Thank you very much, Toto.
18:08Yeah, a great day for Mercedes.
18:10Their first front row lockout here at Suzuka since 2018.
18:14So no wonder Toto is smiling.
18:15He might be somewhat surprised that it was that way around, though.
18:18Kimi Antonelli putting it on pole again.
18:21It might have been a surprise a month ago, but I think we've seen through the free practice sessions, he's
18:26had the upper hand.
18:27He was quicker than George yesterday.
18:29He was quicker than George in FP3.
18:31And all through that session, it just looked like George was struggling to have a good feeling with the rear
18:37of the car.
18:37He just couldn't have the confidence to lean on the rear of the car.
18:40He was complaining a lot about whether there was an aero issue or some sort of a problem.
18:45But in the end, you know, we saw the last one.
18:47His first sector was strong, but he just didn't seem to have that final confidence to lean on it that
18:54extra little bit.
18:54And as we've talked many times before, Bernie, it is all about confidence here at Suzuka, isn't it?
18:59Yeah, it's all about confidence here.
19:00But I think Kimi Antonelli's had the upper hand maybe the whole way through this weekend.
19:04Through each practice session, he seems to be a little bit ahead of George.
19:08Now, I think through the qualifying, I think there was something with George's car that obviously they've corrected for the
19:13last run in Q3.
19:15But because he was struggling significantly, like much, much more than I would expect George to.
19:20And through that last Q3 runs, he was much, much closer, but just not enough to get Kimi.
19:25And we are seeing a very confident Kimi Antonelli.
19:27And he's got to feel confident going in tomorrow, just going to start right.
19:30So do you put that down to the fact that he has got that maiden win under his belt?
19:34I don't know.
19:35It's hard to tell.
19:37You know, only he can maybe answer that.
19:39But raw speed hasn't been a problem for him, has it?
19:43It's been consistency.
19:44It's been about delivering consistent speed and race performances.
19:48And maybe it's just another year, maybe a bit more maturity.
19:51You know, a year of F1 is a long time in the real world, you know.
19:56So I'm sure he's grown a lot.
19:59And, you know, this is a track which is about confidence.
20:02And if George didn't have, on a qualifying lap, think of it, you're, I'm going to hold it my hands
20:07there.
20:07Think of it, that's the edge of the cliff.
20:09And you're constantly trying to balance on that edge.
20:12The more confident you are of leaning over the edge and not falling off it, the quicker you'll go.
20:17Oh, and George is sort of one step, one step away from the edge, I feel, in that session.
20:22Whereas Kimi was just willing to hang out with her.
20:25Beautiful metaphor.
20:26We need to get you a little cliff too.
20:27I need a little cliff.
20:28No, no, no, no, no, no.
20:29Don't be taking it.
20:30You're risk averse, remember?
20:32And what about Oscar Piastri?
20:34I mean, he mentioned there in his post-Quali interview that actually it hasn't been about Quali for him so
20:40far this season.
20:41It's about racing, or lack thereof.
20:43And what can he do tomorrow?
20:45Is he just being a bit cautious about it?
20:47Yeah, well, I think the last few events haven't been entirely his fault.
20:51You know, maybe Melbourne a bit more, Shanghai definitely not.
20:54So he's just going to hope that that car can all go together well.
20:58He's had a, don't want to say, a reliability good weekend so far.
21:03Don't jinx it.
21:04He's done it now.
21:05He's hoping that that continues.
21:06Everyone's cursing you at McLaren right now.
21:08He's hoping that continues, you know, the problems have been much more on London North's side.
21:12So all he can do is his normal race preparation, get into what his car setup's going to be in
21:18terms of the front wing angles, get into what the strategy's going to look like, just do his normal prep
21:23in terms of all of those things that we do on a normal Saturday night.
21:26I mean, one thing I just thought of when you were speaking there was he's not done a formation lap
21:30yet.
21:30I know he did the sprint.
21:32But, you know, we've seen in the first couple of weeks, even the procedures that these drivers now have to
21:37do on the formation lap is different.
21:40So, yeah, it's, you know, I hope he gets a clean run and can at least get to the end
21:45of the Grand Prix.
21:46And, you know, he's in a good place to get a podium.
21:48I'm going to give you a clean run down to the Skypad.
21:50Let's all go together.
21:50Shall we take a little stroll, moving the crowd away from your bit of kit, because we're going to talk
21:57Ferrari.
21:58Okay.
21:59Over to you.
22:00Let's take a look.
22:01This is the final part of qualifying.
22:05We'll let the clip load up.
22:07It will do in a second.
22:09There we go.
22:10So this is Charlocher on the left and Lewis Hamilton on the right.
22:13Leclerc was complaining on the radio that he didn't sound very happy with the way that last lap played out.
22:21I mean, through the Technas, he was very, very quick.
22:24In fact, in the S's in sector one, he was the fastest of anybody through there.
22:29But we'll just get into sector two because he was actually slower compared to his previous lap.
22:34And there, you can see a little bit down at the hairpin.
22:36I'll just go back there.
22:36And you know what?
22:38Let's just watch the clear here.
22:39Watch his hands.
22:40As he comes into the hairpin, watch his hands.
22:42They're just rear of the car.
22:45That rear instability.
22:46And Jensen and I saw this a lot in free practice.
22:49In fact, two of his best laps, he had a similar sort of problem there with the rear movement.
22:55Now, watch when he comes up to a spoon curve because he goes in.
23:00Let's stay into the first part of it.
23:03Carry a lot of understeer.
23:04Gets onto that curb.
23:05Then when he comes in, he's leading on the rear.
23:07And this, in some ways, is similar to what we saw with Ollie Bearman in free practice.
23:12As it loads up, it just gives way.
23:15It just sort of falls over on the rear.
23:17Now, unfortunately for him, when you get that big, big snap there,
23:24he's had to hesitate on throttle.
23:25He comes out a bit slower.
23:26And he's just compromised his run all the way.
23:30And I'll show you just at this point, there's a timing intermediate.
23:34And when we looked at the data, he was seven kilometers an hour slower at this point than Lewis Hamilton.
23:40That shows you the effect it had with that big moment up at the spoon curve.
23:45So, unfortunately, with Sharpe, yes, he's ended up ahead of Lewis.
23:49Yes, he's ended up fourth on the grid.
23:50But I think there was a little bit more time there for him.
23:53So, yeah, that was the story of Charles Leclerc.
23:56And shall I wonder back?
23:57Oh, you've gone away.
23:58Oh, hello.
23:59There you are.
23:59And you've gone, but not that far.
24:00And we're just here.
24:01We're just here.
24:02Jensen, what were your thoughts on Ferrari today?
24:05Did you expect more?
24:05They did seem to fade through Q3.
24:07I think it just didn't get the lap to go.
24:09It looked a little bit tricky to drive, as Karin just pointed out with Charles, the hairpin.
24:15The rear of the car breaking away.
24:17And then you can't get into the apex and you're just waiting the whole time.
24:20And then he had the big snap on the exit of Spoon.
24:23So, yeah, there was definitely more there.
24:26But it looked not an easy car to drive.
24:28It was very different to watching Kimi out there.
24:30Very diplomatically put, because he cursed a little bit on the team radio.
24:34Lewis Hamilton, though, interestingly, in contrast to the previous couple of weekends, he's been struggling with a car all weekend.
24:40Did you expect more from him today than P6?
24:43Not necessarily more than P6, I would say.
24:46He has been struggling a lot of the weekend.
24:48I think that he actually had a better qualifying than what earlier in the weekend showed.
24:52Just behind his teammate there in that P6 position, like you say.
24:55We heard, like you say, Charles Leclerc complain.
24:57And when you look at the compare between the Ferrari and that Mercedes, for example, a lot of the lap
25:04time loss is in straight line, which indicates to me that it is engine deployment or how the battery is
25:09managing the energy around the lap.
25:11So maybe that matches what, you know, Fred Vasseur has been saying, that that Ferrari power unit is behind the
25:17Mercedes.
25:18So I think that's a bit of their frustration there.
25:21It's not necessarily the car.
25:22You know, Jenson and Corinne have gone through the struggles that they've had with the chassis in certain corners.
25:27But also then they're losing on the streets relative to the Mercedes, which is power unit.
25:31Do you not think some of it is, though, because they're losing on the exit?
25:34Yes.
25:34So some of it will be, but even still, even if they have a similar exit speed, you still see
25:40the traces diverge down the street.
25:42So they still lose down the street, which I guess could be more downforce, but it doesn't look like that
25:47in the corners.
25:48Yeah, it was interesting.
25:49I asked someone at Mercedes about that because Charles was quickest in sector one.
25:54And their theory is that the Ferrari's got, it's just carrying more downforce and more drag.
25:58But the truth probably lies somewhere in between, doesn't it?
26:02We don't, we don't ever fully know.
26:03But what I'm interested to see is where that form goes between the two of them.
26:07Because we saw last year in Melbourne and China, Lewis was as quick, if not a little bit quicker.
26:13Charlotte, China was quite downbeat, saying, you know, I'm not very good at this track.
26:16He's come here and he's taken a step.
26:19Is this a repeat of last year or is Lewis able to bring it back and match him?
26:23And that's what I'm interested to see when we go to Miami and beyond.
26:26Did you expect more from Lando Norris today?
26:29No, he's had a tough weekend, hasn't he?
26:30He's hardly done any mileage in the practice sessions.
26:33He's been a bit behind all through.
26:36And honestly, I think he is sort of where I expect him to be.
26:40OK, well, let's hear from him now.
26:41He's in the pen with Rachel.
26:44Hi, Lando.
26:44You've had a lot of time in the garage this weekend.
26:46Did that affect your rhythm for qualifying?
26:48Or do you think he's still got the most out of those laps today?
26:53It's a very difficult question to answer.
26:55I mean, it's certainly impacted our ability to test things, try things, get comfortable with the car early on.
27:03Also do high fuel running and prepare for tomorrow.
27:04Like, I've done no high fuel running, so it's certainly just been difficult and tricky.
27:10And I've been playing a lot of catch-up this weekend, even into qualifying.
27:15I don't want to say all of the gap today was simply that.
27:18I certainly don't feel like I was on top form and got everything out of it.
27:23And I made a couple of mistakes in my final lap.
27:26As it did, it seemed like everyone went a little bit slower by a couple.
27:30So, yeah, I think I did a good job.
27:34Like, I'm happy with P5.
27:36I was very close to Charles and it was a small gap, so, you know, it hurts a little bit
27:40more knowing the gap was that small.
27:41But otherwise, I feel like I did a good job.
27:44Could it have been better?
27:45Yes.
27:46It also could have been a lot worse, you know.
27:48So, I'll take it on the chin and then I'll prepare the best I can for tomorrow.
27:51It did look yesterday as though you'd closed the gap a little bit to Ferrari and you'd found some performance
27:57or some solutions.
27:58Do you feel the same way today or not?
28:01We did yesterday.
28:03It's always hard to know how much other people, you know, when they turn up the engine and that kind
28:06of thing.
28:07So, we certainly felt better yesterday.
28:12This morning then felt quite a bit worse and we were a bit confused as to why we seemed quite
28:16a long way off.
28:17But then we seem to take a step forward again into quality now.
28:19So, it just seems a bit up and down for whatever reason.
28:22So, it's just sensitive.
28:24I think the cars are sensitive to, you know, wind conditions, temperature, all those things.
28:27And also, just, you never know what other people are doing.
28:31So, I think we're happy with the result as a team today.
28:34Thank you.
28:36Andrea, is it a measure of how much this is a better weekend for McLaren that you're actually mixing it
28:40with Ferrari in qualifying?
28:42Yeah, I think so.
28:44I think there's some indications of progress from a performance and overall competitiveness point of view.
28:52I think this progress comes from the fact that we are getting a little bit more out of the chassis
28:58through the setup, but mostly we are getting more out of the power unit.
29:03We have always talked about how difficult with this new generation of power unit it is to exploit, but we
29:10are getting more familiar with it.
29:11We are collaborating better with our HPP engineers, and I think this is rewarded by cashing in some lap time.
29:19Having said that, it's positive that in qualifying we are there with Ferrari, but Mercedes is still one step ahead.
29:25Okay, and between the drivers, good recovery from Lando and Oscar's just looked on it all weekend, really?
29:31Well, Oscar has driven very well throughout the weekend, and honestly, Oscar has been fast throughout the season so far.
29:40He just hasn't had the chance to show it, because in two races he was not able to take part.
29:45But I think Oscar is in really good shape, so hopefully tomorrow he will have the chance to show it.
29:51Lando, we have to say that as a team, we kept him on the back foot because we had some
29:56delays in P1, some problems in P2.
29:59This morning in P3 we needed to change the battery once again, so Lando is doing his best to minimise
30:05the impact of this disruption.
30:07He's doing well, very happy with Lando and Oscar, how they are driving.
30:12Hopefully, like I say, tomorrow we will be able to have a normal race and cash in some points.
30:17Well, some points. Podium, can you stay ahead of Ferrari?
30:21I think Ferrari have shown that they gained some relative pace in the race, so I will be positively surprised
30:31that we are in condition to compete with Ferrari for podiums.
30:35We have seen progress this weekend, so definitely we will be there.
30:39It's also racing, anything can happen.
30:41We will try and have a go at podium, of course, but we know that we have to improve the
30:48car and above all we have to bring some upgrades.
30:51That's the plan for the following race and then we can be more steadily fighting for podium and hopefully later
30:59on in the season for the victory.
31:01Thank you very much, Andrea. Thank you.
31:06Andrea doing very well to manage expectations there, but it speaks volumes for their season so far that all he's
31:11longing for is a normal race.
31:13Yeah.
31:13I mean, it tells you everything, doesn't it?
31:15Yeah, let's get two cars to the finish, get loads of data and see where we go from there.
31:19So, no, I think that's not a bad qualifying effort, especially from Oscar.
31:24You know, he says he's a chunk away from Mercedes, but it's just over three tenths.
31:29It's not that bad, you know, and they've been on the back foot a lot this year.
31:32So, yes, I look forward to them both starting the race tomorrow and finishing the race tomorrow.
31:38Hear, hear.
31:39Lando Norris, that's his best qualifying of the year in P5 and Oscar Piastri's P3 is the team's best qualifying
31:45of the year.
31:46So, I'm sure you echo Jekko's Jenson sentiment of just getting to that chequered flag or at least starting the
31:55race.
31:55Yeah, I do totally echo that.
31:57I would argue that the driver-engineer split, I would say four tenths.
32:00He says three tenths, but that's okay.
32:02That's okay.
32:03Point nine, point three, nine, four.
32:06He's got three in front of it.
32:06Classic driver versus engineer chat.
32:09As soon as he said it, I was like, here we go.
32:11Here we go.
32:12Yeah, you know, I think McLaren have, they've moved their qualifying performance on.
32:16That is clear.
32:17A lot of that, as Andrea said, there is the deployment, working with Mercedes to get the best out of
32:22that engine.
32:23They were a little bit as a customer team on the back foot with that.
32:26That step is there.
32:27Now, the next step is that reliability, you know, getting that car through the entire race, getting both cars through
32:33the entire race tomorrow.
32:34Because their race pace has actually, you know, not been too bad when we look at Shanghai or we look
32:39at Melbourne, sorry, for Norris.
32:41So, they've got to be confident, they've just got to, like I said, got to get the data.
32:46Absolutely.
32:46Okay, well, the man of the moment is Kimi Antonelli, because he's put it on pole once again.
32:54Can he turn that into a second career win tomorrow?
32:58It's the 50th pole for an Italian driver in F1.
33:01The pole sitter has won seven of the last eight Suzuka races.
33:05There's more on the way next.
33:14Welcome back to Suzuka, where Kimi Antonelli has put it on pole.
33:18But let's hear from the man that he replaced at Mercedes, four-time winner here, Lewis Hamilton.
33:23Lewis, from the data we saw, it looked like you were faster in the corners than Michelle, but slower on
33:28the straights.
33:28Is this an element of this year's racing that every driver sort of has to adapt to, or how are
33:33you feeling in the car, do you feel?
33:35I'm generally feeling, I was feeling pretty decent.
33:38I mean, it's just we're not very quick.
33:41I mean, compared to the guys, the Mercedes and a little bit of McLaren.
33:46Yeah, my first lap, I was up, and then I lost two and a half tenths just on the straights.
33:53I had a snap, and then it changed the deployment, and then that was it.
33:58And at that point, I was up.
33:59So I probably, if we didn't have that problem, I probably would have finished, I probably would have had fourth.
34:07But other than that, it's just the way this deployment situation is.
34:11In the races you've done so far, what have you learned that you can take into tomorrow's race to turn
34:15that P6 into a podium or better?
34:18I don't know whether or not we can turn it into a podium, but, I mean, our race pace has
34:22been pretty decent.
34:24It looks like McLaren have taken a step forward.
34:28Naturally, they've got the Mercedes engine, which is a long way ahead of us at the moment.
34:34And, yeah, we've got a huge amount of work to do.
34:36So to be eight tenths off or seven tenths, whatever it is, even if you bring an upgrade of a
34:46couple of tenths, three tenths, four tenths, it's still a long way off.
34:49So to close that gap, it's going to take a mighty push from everybody.
34:54Great. Thanks, love.
34:56Well, a tiny moment in qualifying at the moment seems to really cost drivers.
35:00You're not able to recover from it.
35:01Can you tell me why qualifying is so frustrating for you right now and what you're dealing with?
35:05It's very frustrating because coming Q3, at least myself, and that's how I approach qualifying since forever,
35:15you go into that last lap and you try things that are a little bit above whatever you've tried before.
35:21And when you do that, the system needs to re-optimize everything while you are driving, basically.
35:28And so that, for some reason, whenever I get to Q3, I start losing time in the straights.
35:32So I make time in the corners, I lose time in the straights.
35:34And this is very frustrating because you never really put a lap together because you're always compromising one thing for
35:40another.
35:40And that's a little bit frustrating, but it's the way it is for everybody.
35:44I feel for some reason that we are a little bit more exposed to that compared to maybe the Mercedes
35:48engine, which is something that we need to look at.
35:50I also know that the FIA is obviously trying to understand what other things we can do to fix those
35:56issues going forward,
35:57because it's still something that everybody has.
36:01But yeah, apart from that, I was actually very happy with my lap.
36:04I've had a moment in turn eight, but actually this doesn't have any implications in whatever I have had later
36:13on.
36:14Like engine, power unit-wise, it didn't have any influence.
36:16Do you feel then that your driving skill and your talents are being limited somewhat then at the moment?
36:23I mean, I feel like this would be quite arrogant to say it like that, but surely, I think for
36:29everybody,
36:30like going into Q3 is just not the nicest feeling because we want to be at the limit of those
36:36cars.
36:36And whenever you play with those limits, not only you pay the price of a small snap,
36:42but you also pay triple the price in the straights, and this is very frustrating because qualifying,
36:47it's all about us trying to find the limit and to play with the limits.
36:50And at the moment, whenever you play with the limit, you get destroyed in the straights.
36:55So you've got to stay right underneath it, which is an art in itself.
37:00And, I mean, all the good drivers need to make the difference anyway.
37:04But I think it's less rewarding for the drivers that like to really push over it.
37:12And most of the time in Q3, that's paying off, but not with these cars.
37:16Thank you, Charles.
37:16Thank you.
37:45Thank you.
37:57Thank you.
38:17и левел, что всё наше время.
38:19Да.
38:19Какая-то таймлайн мы говорим?
38:21Ну, это так же зависит от того, что именно
38:24в какой-то проблеме, или в какой-то университете,
38:27или в какой-то университете, или как это университет.
38:29Есть так много чего-то, и я не думаю,
38:33что мы просто не понимаем, что это было.
38:34О, hello.
38:35Hello, не так.
38:36Это окей.
38:37Я мог видеть Наталии на что-то,
38:38и я подумала, что, что застало?
38:40Она была в полном росте.
38:41Она была в полном росте.
38:41Она была в полном росте.
38:43Ты закончишься?
38:43Нет, нет, мы можем.
38:44Давай, давайте.
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