00:02On board now with Piastri a little bit wide, he is on the bubble, he's down in
00:0715th place and that was so close to track limit, Piastri finds the seventh fastest
00:12time, but was it legal all the way around? Oh big spin there for Alex Albon trying
00:18to match his teammate in the drop zone and the man who will celebrate a hundred
00:22Grand Prix starts has an issue all over the road as he tries to apply the power
00:26and Albon goes around as his teammate advances as it stands, Hülkenberg knocks
00:32out Pierre Gasly and Liam Lawson is the next driver we'll be focusing on, we go
00:37on board with the New Zealander making adjustments on the steering wheel, this
00:41is turn 19 for the man who can now call himself a full-time Formula One driver
00:47and Lawson trying to get ahead of Yuki Tsunoda, trying to get through into SQ2, he's
00:52done both of them as it stands, 13th fastest time.
00:55That was an incredible recovery from Albon, I mean, obviously lap time not worth anything
01:00as we see Alonzo slot into eighth position, but that, it spun so quick, he was back around
01:06and back on the gas so quick, oh just too much apex curve, got onto that orange block of the
01:14apex curve, they don't want the drivers cutting too much, they put those as a deterrent and
01:18that's exactly why, I mean look for a high-speed spin, that's 130, 135 mile an hour minimum speed
01:27corner, to have a 180 degree spin there and come around with nothing worse than flat-spotted
01:32set of Pirelli's is a bit of a win if I'm honest.
01:35Big, dramatic development, look, Oscar Piastri in the drop zone, Pierre Gasly found a time, he improved and one of
01:44the McLarens finds themselves in the bottom five, this is Oscar Piastri going over track limits and exiting SQ1.
01:54And we saw it as it was happening live, here we are turn 19, he just gets that little bit
02:00of oversteer
02:01late in the corner and it kind of forces him to open his hands up a little bit, let's look
02:05for that left front tire going over, it's hard in the sun but, oh yeah, easily, easily called.
02:11The McLaren man's exit is the headline of a dramatic session, Ocon also out, Albon had the spin
02:18and on the back row, Bottas a former winner of this Grand Prix and Joe Guarniou, we're on board with
02:24Yuki Tsunoda, this is his first effort in the session, they've chosen to do
02:28just the one run, Stroll, Alonso, Lawson and Tsunoda, still to cross this line, over the line we go with
02:35Tsunoda who eliminates Pires as it stands, Gasly is down to 12th, where does Liam Lawson go?
02:41Alonso, he of his now, one corner remains around this 3.4 mile racetrack and the driver returning to Formula
02:501 finds himself behind Perez and behind Tsunoda with the checkered flag out, so Perez in the drop zone, Perez
02:58finding himself across the line only now and really tough moment, let's see if Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll can
03:05get themselves
03:05into SQ3, that's Alonso too wide. Yeah, he was wide at the apex, Alex, just did not get the front
03:12of the Aston down where he needed it to and that put him wide on the exit, it's not a
03:16fast enough lap anyway, but that lap will be deleted almost certainly.
03:21And Stroll completes the 5 heading out, this was the time deleted for Fernando Alonso, it drops him down the
03:30order to 15th position, he set no legal lap time in the session,
03:34trying to ring the speed from the Aston wasn't there, and Alonso and his team mate Stroll are out, along
03:40with Gasly, Lawson and Perez, who doesn't make it into the top 10 shootout.
03:46Why are we so early? I don't want to go down, no worries. Is everyone still in the pit in
03:50the garages?
03:51A few still in there.
03:53This is Turn 19 in SQ3, and we've got a yellow flag out in Sector 2, that can only be
04:01Franco Colapinto, because there's only three cars on the racetrack at the moment,
04:06and we're watching the two Mercedes, and so Russell goes over the line with a 32.8, Hamilton was really
04:13fighting the car, we saw it on board, left-hand side of your screen,
04:17so it didn't look dialed in, we've progressed in this session, of course, from the medium to the soft, it
04:23can affect the car balance enormously,
04:24going from one compound to another, and Hamilton has been fighting his Mercedes, you see, still making adjustments through Turn
04:3319,
04:33this is the last corner on the racetrack, under four minutes to go, and we have Lewis Hamilton across the
04:39line, where does he stack up compared to George Russell?
04:42He looked like he was fighting it, he was fighting it, he's half a second back, that is the moment
04:47that brought out the yellow flag, around goes the Williams,
04:50and he finds himself trying to catch the moment of the rear stepping out, unable to do so, and that
04:57is his attempt done.
05:01Come on, guys.
05:04That was not good.
05:06Yep, copy Lewis, yeah, understood.
05:09Can anyone challenge George Russell?
05:12Lewis Hamilton is further back, Sainz across the line, he goes to second, couldn't find the pace from earlier in
05:18the day.
05:18Next up is going to be Lando Norris, second in the Formula One World Championship, second in the order.
05:24He's beaten Sainz by six thousandths of a second.
05:28And we now find ourselves with Charles Leclerc out of the 20th and final corner.
05:32He will come across the line, and so once it was Sainz, then it was Norris, now it's Charles Leclerc
05:37in second place.
05:38And is this an opportunity for Max Verstappen to finally be on the front foot for the first time since
05:45June in Formula One?
05:47He had a chance in Spa, that car was quick, he had to take an engine penalty.
05:51Have Red Bull found the answers, found the updates, and given him a chance.
05:55He has been losing time in this final sector so far this weekend.
06:00But this is the most important moment of the weekend so far.
06:03It's Russell versus Verstappen.
06:05That's a clean route through.
06:07We've got Magnussen in sixth, Tsunoda is in seventh, Max Verstappen attempting to return to the front of the field,
06:13and that's the lap time to do it by twelve thousandths of a second.
06:19Verstappen finding the improvement to get past Russell, but finally for Max Verstappen,
06:24he finds himself at the top of the timing page once again.
06:41Max Verstappen is the driver they're all trying to catch when they barrel into turn one tomorrow.
06:48He's back on top, he's once again the driver to beat in Formula One.
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