00:01Liam Lawson a couple of moments before this is how the RB driver skated off the road to bring
00:08out the yellow flags here's the second car to struggle locking up this time Joe Guanyu I mean
00:14identical carbon copy of what we saw from Lawson there gets it spun around Lance Stroll doing a
00:18very similar thing just taking to the grass the red flag is out George Russell is only 18th Franco
00:26Colopinto appears to be into the barriers and the Argentine favorite with so much support around
00:32this circuit set the really tricky task of going out on the full wet tire and he finds the barrier
00:38to bring out the red flag and our first interruption the most important thing is that he is okay
00:44and it was always going to be tricky for him to master these conditions sorry mate you can hear
00:51that he's understandably downbeat on the radio but that was always going to be a tricky learning
00:57experience and devastation for the Williams mechanics these are incredible conditions the drivers now
01:04have to master to find their best lap when it matters and the world championship is on the line
01:09in the drivers category Philando Norris and Lewis Hamilton sends Norris to the drop zone with the
01:16checkered flag out and this now has to be a massive improvement in sector two and sector three or Norris
01:23is out you saw how difficult it was for Hamilton to get the power down out of 12 just chasing
01:29it let's
01:29hear his radio damn car man it's not just the cards the conditions he's in right now personal best for
01:35Norris and sector two Albon goes to the front of the field Lawson is improving Verstappen is in 12th
01:42but he's got a personal best first sector Russell goes to second so much can still change Norris has
01:48he fired up those tires when he needed to Gasly goes to fourth Norris goes to 14th Hamilton is now
01:54the
01:54driver at risk Hamilton is now in the drop zone Liam Lawson improves to 14th position and Max Verstappen
02:02was trying to eke out more time there but he finds himself in 12th Norris has gone over the line
02:08O'Connor's gone up to third Joe Guan Yu is still on a lap but he only improves his lap
02:13time
02:14Verstappen is the fastest driver out there and no one behind Norris has an improvement at this stage
02:21Hamilton finds himself out in the first part of qualifying along with Oliver Behrman
02:27Franco Colopinto who hit the barriers Nico Hülkenberg and Joe Guan Yu
02:33fastest driver through the first sector is Lance Stroll who has won Formula 1 pole position to his
02:39name set in conditions just like this back in the Turkish Grand Prix of 2020 over the line we go
02:46with George Russell in second but is it the Ferrari or Carlos Sainz who has brought out that flag the
02:53answer is yes heavily into the wall goes the Ferrari grip level is good you see not a lot of
02:59standing
02:59water then he used to go downhill oh wow on the power down the hill in almost a straight line
03:05oh my gosh sorry guys
03:08Norris is improving on Alonso's benchmark time Alex Albon fastest of anyone in the session so far
03:14and Max Verstappen will be looking over his shoulder he's in the drop zone now thanks to that effort from
03:19Charles Leclerc who goes up to third and Lance Stroll is static on our driver tracker there is a yellow
03:26flag
03:27out there is Lando Norris at the head of the field can Alex Albon complete this lap Lawson's improving
03:33Verstappen in the drop zone so is Liam Lawson this is not the yellow flag part of the circuit minute
03:38to
03:38go across the line for fourth position for Alex Albon really delivering in these wet conditions so is
03:45Liam Lawson up to fourth place for him Bottas in the drop zone along with the two red bulls Max
03:51Verstappen needs
03:52a lap the pendulum swung the other way so the red flag is out the red flag is out with
03:5746 seconds on
03:59the clock Lance Stroll found the wall the third car to find the barrier today he was trying to recover
04:06but the red flag is out that is not enough time to restart the session this could be the moment
04:13that
04:14changes the world championship not for Lance not for Aston Martin no one would have predicted
04:19Verstappen Perez and signs out in Q2 but my word that is what we have
04:29Esteban Ocon takes provisional pole with Oscar Piastri improving behind the second lap on the
04:35intermediate tyres with the temperature in them always seems to improve Piastri surely going to take it away
04:41and does so provisional pole with seven minutes to go Albon gets ahead of Piastri that's a superb lap from
04:49Alex Albon it's good enough for second right now as Alonso brings out the red flag this is on
04:57board with Fernando Alonso let's listen in a big hit into the barriers okay mate yeah sorry and the man
05:06who
05:06went past 400 Grand Prix appearances last week finds himself with an uncharacteristic error in the rain
05:15we have eight cars still on the racetrack but only just a huge cheer from the crowd as they saw
05:22Charles Leclerc find himself trying to hang on to it and now a huge cheer from the grandstand because Alex
05:28Albon I can see out of the commentary box window has hit the barriers and the driver in second position
05:35in the
05:36standings reports that he's okay but that is a massive accident to bring out the fifth red flag of the
05:43day this
05:44is the moment that sent the tight driver locking wheels spinning the car and into the barrier
05:50did the brakes fail we're checking oh Alex are you are you okay yeah
05:56Yuki Tsunoda's going very quickly further back he's giving it everything a driver who in conditions today
06:02has seemed inspired Liam Lawson isn't too far away if you can keep that gap to Lando Norris Lawson
06:09improbably could improve to the top three maybe even the front row Yuki Tsunoda's going even quicker
06:16this is remarkable stuff for the fire interface team Lawson to the line Lawson to second position
06:22extraordinary but if you think that's extraordinary wait for Yuki Tsunoda to come out of the spray
06:29to climb the hill and he misses out by 19 thousandths of a second Ocon goes again Tsunoda on for
06:38his maiden front row
06:39Ocon equals his personal best qualifying in Formula One and whilst we have names that
06:46we didn't expect the man chasing down the world championship lead is faster still it's surely an
06:54improvement to the front that will stay pole position for Lando Norris still attacking at the
07:01end George Russell second position for Russell what a final sector for George Russell when it mattered
07:07Charles Leclerc tries to take it away and cannot sixth position for him Oscar Piastri looking to try and
07:15improve and this final runs he's not had the pace the checkered flag is out and I cannot believe what
07:22we've just witnessed at the end there Russell improved to deny Yuki Tsunoda a front row Ocon was fast in
07:29all
07:29the conditions and Liam Lawson has a top five start in Formula One out front though the man who was
07:36given
07:36an enormous opportunity nearly knocked out in Q1 at the end of the qualifying hour it's pole position
07:44for Lando Norris and Super Sunday in Sao Paulo might be underselling it
07:50you
07:51you
07:51you
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