Formula 1 Season 2025 Episode 15

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00:03:08Do the teams at the front bias their setups into a race pace knowing that Formula One is in this incredible situation where it is ultra competitive?

00:03:19Do you risk lining up if you're one of the big four teams with a maybe an eighth position with it all to do given how tough it's been to pass on the evidence of the sprint race?

00:03:34And as if by magic, there's the winner of the sprint race.

00:03:38Timing is beautifully right now in the gallery.

00:03:40Lewis Hamilton was emotional yesterday to take a sprint pole.

00:03:44He was delighted to get that first Ferrari win on the board.

00:03:48He did so.

00:03:49Creates a little bit of history.

00:03:50But Lewis Hamilton will want even more.

00:03:53He's got six pole positions around this circuit.

00:03:57He's got six wins.

00:03:58He's now got a sprint win.

00:03:59He's now got a sprint pole.

00:04:01Shanghai, as he said in the press conference afterwards, has been good to him.

00:04:05And what was interesting for me is when he was talking in the press conference afterwards, he said in Melbourne, he turned up to Ferrari and he looked around.

00:04:13He observed and he tried to understand how they operated because in his view, and even when he's 40 years of age, he's saying in his view, there might be something I could learn, something I could understand.

00:04:24He comes into round two.

00:04:26He said he approached it differently.

00:04:27He came in with a list of things that he wanted addressed.

00:04:31He's had a better feel since the first and only practice session.

00:04:34He's taken sprint pole.

00:04:35He's taken the sprint win.

00:04:37And now, Jolyon Palmer, we do it all over again.

00:04:40Reset to zero, 18 minutes on the board, and we find ourselves with Grand Prix qualifying ahead of us.

00:04:47Yeah, and I think reset to zero is the big thing, isn't it, really?

00:04:51The amount of times last year we had someone being a hero in the sprint, and then the race weekend would just go away.

00:04:57Hamilton is one of them.

00:04:58Last year, led the sprint race, didn't win it, but had a great showing and was knocked out in Q1 later that day last year.

00:05:06Daniel Ricciardo in Miami, hero in the sprint.

00:05:09It all went away from him.

00:05:11Max Verstappen in Qatar struggled in the sprint, won the race at a canter, the Grand Prix in the end, from pole position or the front row of the grid.

00:05:19So it can all change.

00:05:21Let's see what's going to unfold here.

00:05:22That's Jolyon Palmer, former Renault Formula One driver, who had a couple of races around this circuit.

00:05:30The first ever Grand Prix held around here was back in 2004, which means also DC's had a couple of races around this circuit as well.

00:05:39Gentlemen, where did it rank in your favourites?

00:05:42Was it at the higher end or the lower end?

00:05:44I'm going to go middle end in that it was challenging in its own way.

00:05:51Long, long corners normally are a little bit frustrating for race drivers because Grand Prix cars, they come alive at high speed.

00:06:02And you want to be steering down a 180 mile an hour corner, making that decision.

00:06:06Do I stay flat?

00:06:07Do I lift?

00:06:08Which you don't really get as you enter turn one here.

00:06:11And then it just gets progressively slower, which means less downforce and more tricky to control the car as you get into turn two.

00:06:18But I just think brilliant to be in China.

00:06:21We're going to have a true world championship.

00:06:24We've got to be in all the major places.

00:06:26Yeah, it was right down the lower end for me, to be honest.

00:06:30I did see that up knowing where he was going as well.

00:06:33That's my fault.

00:06:34I have to say, I wish it had been resurfaced like this for when I was driving though,

00:06:38because I think it would make the track a lot more enjoyable to drive.

00:06:41Smoothing it out, adding a load of grip as well.

00:06:44Not to say it's easy, those long corners are still so difficult and I didn't get on with them.

00:06:50Well, I had two miserable Grand Prix's here, but I'm really pleased to be here commentating now.

00:06:54It's interesting.

00:06:55I think the smoother surface has played a part because the current drivers in the field seem to enjoy this place

00:07:01in a way that maybe others didn't in the past and we'll see what we get here.

00:07:08The car's getting faster, of course, every year.

00:07:09That never hurts.

00:07:11More grip, more power.

00:07:13And a green light at the end of the pit lane.

00:07:15Q1 is underway.

00:07:17Plenty of drivers trying to turn the page on their weekend so far.

00:07:21This is the strange combination of having a race before midday, local time,

00:07:26and then almost reversing back in the weekend to go back to low fuel,

00:07:31one-up pushing to the limits, DC.

00:07:33But isn't this brilliant for the drivers?

00:07:35Because every session has consequence.

00:07:38Fridays when you're working on your programs and everyone's got their own strategy of fuel level,

00:07:43engine modes and the likes, we're all left wondering, well, who's hot, who's not?

00:07:48We know who was quick this morning.

00:07:50We know who in a 19-lap race, all on the same tyres, was able to manage that on that day as best they could.

00:07:59What we don't know is now armed with all that information, who is the fastest one-lap specialist?

00:08:04Because I think qualifying is a lot more important here than maybe you would think,

00:08:09given how wide open this racetrack is.

00:08:12Well, given what we saw earlier on, Hamilton getting that clear air from pole and then commanding the race,

00:08:17I think we've got two things, haven't we?

00:08:19If we just did sprint qualifying yesterday, stopped it at the checkered flag and told them all to go again,

00:08:24I bet we'd have a completely shuffled-up order because of how close it is.

00:08:27On top of that, we've now had the teams being able to change the cars in a couple of hours since the sprint.

00:08:34So everyone can learn their weaknesses, learn what they want to do for the race.

00:08:38So the pack's going to be even more shuffled, I'd have thought.

00:08:42That is the weird thing about Formula One, a sport that prides itself in the highest of tolerances,

00:08:50or the smallest of tolerances, in the highest level of engineering.

00:08:53There's so many variables in putting a lap together.

00:08:57Where are the surface temperature of the tyres? Where are the pressures?

00:09:00Do you have dirty air ahead? Is the wind gusting?

00:09:03You know, these guys are like the Princess and the Pea, just the tiniest of little change.

00:09:09You know, sand under their derriere and the seat, and it changes their whole connection with the car and the racetrack.

00:09:15And not to diminish Hamilton's achievements, because he's been sensational this weekend,

00:09:19and the best of Lewis Hamilton, Doohan.

00:09:23Jack Doohan off the road.

00:09:25The alpine driver who had contact at the hairpin at the end of the sprint race

00:09:30finds himself with a moment off at the start of qualifying.

00:09:34That would have been his first push lap in the session.

00:09:36So that was in the middle sector, I think, for Doohan, through the faster corners.

00:09:40We'll wait for a replay on that.

00:09:41But just finishing the final Hamilton, it was 18,000th that he took pole by over Verstappen.

00:09:46Piastri was third within a tenth.

00:09:48And for all the things that can go right or wrong, it doesn't take much different today.

00:09:53And he's not starting from pole, he can't control the race.

00:09:55And that's what everyone's got to try and get their gear into.

00:09:57Not least this guy, Lando Norris, who could have had a completely different weekend up until this point,

00:10:02had he not locked up at Turn 14.

00:10:04Small mistakes have big consequences now.

00:10:06Yeah, I don't think there's ever a point where people go,

00:10:09well, look, we'll not worry about qualifying, we'll focus on the race.

00:10:14You know, the most extreme version, I guess, would be Monaco, where you focus on qualifying.

00:10:18And then if you manage to be quick enough to be at the front,

00:10:21then that's a pretty good indication you're going to be able to be competitive in the race.

00:10:26But I think you're absolutely right.

00:10:27What we've seen this morning, track position, absolutely key.

00:10:30They will be aware of how difficult it was to keep the tyres alive in dirty air.

00:10:38All the drivers, as DC points out, always aiming for the front row.

00:10:41We have a really nice balance in modern times of Formula One

00:10:45with four teams providing machinery capable of challenging for pole position.

00:10:52Lewis Hamilton has set the early pace.

00:10:54He's driving with supreme confidence right now.

00:10:57And he is in a McLaren sandwich.

00:10:58Oscar Piastri, who missed out on sprint pole by eight hundredths in a second,

00:11:02is ahead of Hamilton.

00:11:04And then it is Norris in third, Gasly in fourth, Ocon in fifth.

00:11:07This is Jack Doohan working his way into the middle part of the lap,

00:11:13out of nine and spinning backwards through ten.

00:11:16Yeah, that just has a sort of look and feel to what we saw in Melbourne.

00:11:20Tyres clearly just not quite there.

00:11:22At the lower speed where the downforce has come off the car,

00:11:26it seems to be rolling onto the grass is not ideal to sort of compound the difficulties.

00:11:32You see Charles III doing a Lando Norris at turn 14.

00:11:36So, Jolene, just explain what it is with these cars in quality

00:11:40as we see him pumping the brake, creating his own EBS.

00:11:43Why does it seem to be this momentum of the rear coming round as the speed comes off

00:11:48that we've seen Melbourne and then now they're with Jack?

00:11:50Well, I think it's even more now because everyone's got to set the car up

00:11:54so it's on the nose, so it's not understeering to try and protect the front tyres.

00:12:00And it was a bit the case in Melbourne.

00:12:01Front tyres were quite vulnerable with the high speed there,

00:12:03but this is another issue here.

00:12:06So, everyone's been thinking about, particularly talking early on about

00:12:09if you set the car up for a race or qualifying,

00:12:12to set the car up for a better race, you have to take load off the front left,

00:12:16which is to induce some more rear instability effectively.

00:12:19You can't have the perfect balance of just more grip everywhere.

00:12:23You have to find a trade-off.

00:12:24And I think that is to have a bit more oversteer,

00:12:27to fight the rear more, maybe over one lap,

00:12:30but then over many laps, it'll sort of even itself out

00:12:32and you won't chew through that front left quite as much.

00:12:35We're joining Verstappen as he goes to set his opening lap time.

00:12:40Tenth down in the first sector.

00:12:42It seems to be, and we saw that certainly in the sprint quality yesterday,

00:12:45not as comfortable rolling into the lower speed corners.

00:12:49Ferrari seemed to be most comfortable there.

00:12:51Middle sector, well, not too bad.

00:12:5527.5, Russell Cump is the fastest person at this phase,

00:12:59so he's about a tenth down on Russell.

00:13:01And speaking of the Brits,

00:13:04Lando Norris has had his time deleted.

00:13:06So that first run in Q1, he went beyond the white line at turn nine,

00:13:11and he has his 1.32.0 deleted.

00:13:14No lap time on the board.

00:13:15Again, story of Norris' weekend.

00:13:18Good pace, just no consistency across the entirety of the lap,

00:13:22and the lap time's in the bin.

00:13:23He's struggling badly to put laps together,

00:13:25so that's the same corner as Jack Doohan had his spin early on,

00:13:29as Verstappen lowers the benchmark again by another tenth.

00:13:32Good final sector for him.

00:13:34Norris more than anyone.

00:13:35We know he's got speed.

00:13:37He's always a threat to go top or going top,

00:13:39but he's making a lot of mistakes.

00:13:42Final corner of the racetrack, Kimi Antonelli.

00:13:45Sensational debut for him one week ago,

00:13:49and dipping a wheel in a corner that has bitten rookies in the past.

00:13:53Yeah.

00:13:54Your voice told that story,

00:13:55even if you weren't watching the actual visuals.

00:13:59It's such a knife edge, isn't it,

00:14:02when you see a Grand Prix car.

00:14:03That was that running beyond track limit.

00:14:06What's a little bit harsh there is,

00:14:07it clearly doesn't give you any performance gain.

00:14:10Yeah, and with the way that the circuits are generally going now,

00:14:13we're getting more and more gravel to the edge of the tracks.

00:14:16We're moving away from just big expanses of asphalt runoff.

00:14:20So we saw it last week as well, didn't we,

00:14:22with people running through the gravel,

00:14:23but actually losing our lap time.

00:14:25We're not needing necessarily to be quite as harsh

00:14:27with the rules on many circuits,

00:14:30but they are the rules.

00:14:31So Norris loses the lap.

00:14:33I have to say it was super marginal,

00:14:34just understeering his way through nine.

00:14:36So exactly the opposite of the issue that Doohan found.

00:14:38So Doohan going again.

00:14:42Sainz trying to find some balance.

00:14:44Isaac Hajar with the fastest middle sector of anyone so far.

00:14:48Driver who had his Formula 1 debut in the sprint race earlier on

00:14:51after failing to start the Australian Grand Prix.

00:14:55Finds himself in fourth place.

00:14:57Doohan completing his first lap,

00:14:59having had the spin on the exit of turn number nine.

00:15:03Tsunoda puts two racing balls, fourth and fifth.

00:15:05So they're all trying to take what they've learned

00:15:08through the session so far this weekend

00:15:11and the 19-lap race that we had earlier.

00:15:13And Doohan sets the 13th fastest time.

00:15:16Sainz was a driver who didn't understand

00:15:18the balance of his Williams earlier on,

00:15:20in sharp contrast to what we've seen with Alex Albin,

00:15:22who has been comfortable behind the wheel drive.

00:15:25He finished 11th earlier on in the sprint race.

00:15:28Good enough to go ahead of Fernando Alonso and into sixth.

00:15:31There's a lot of spotlight on Liam Lawson,

00:15:34a young New Zealander working the wheel through turn 16,

00:15:38not glued to the road in the way that he would want.

00:15:40And he's 15th with first effort.

00:15:42He just looked very tentative into that final corner there.

00:15:45Plenty of coast as he came off the brakes.

00:15:48Couldn't commit to a turn in particularly well.

00:15:50But the important thing for Lawson is just to get a banker lap in

00:15:53and then try and find something more on the second.

00:15:57I have to say, it's not a great banker

00:15:58because he's right on the cusp of being knocked out.

00:16:00And that's not including Leclerc and Norris,

00:16:02who were right at the bottom of the time.

00:16:04So now he is in the bottom five again.

00:16:05So it's not really enough that he's done there.

00:16:07A banker needs to be within a few attempts of Max Verstappen.

00:16:10A second, there isn't a second between any of these drivers.

00:16:15And therefore, if there is a second,

00:16:17he's either had a tentacle issue around the lap

00:16:20or it's frightened money.

00:16:23It's, you know, he's driving fingertips scared

00:16:25and he's not relying on the instincts

00:16:28that's brought him to this point.

00:16:30Yeah, I mean, he needs to get through for his own confidence

00:16:33this session, I think.

00:16:35Having had the learnings of yesterday,

00:16:36the brief learnings of an SQ1,

00:16:39but then the laps in the sprint,

00:16:41he has to be getting through into Q2 this time.

00:16:44And he knows the pressure's there, I think, now.

00:16:46Yeah, look, it's not just about getting through for confidence,

00:16:49it's getting through for career.

00:16:51The spotlight of performance

00:16:53is on these guys every weekend now.

00:16:57Nice lap for Oliver Behrman,

00:16:59moves into seventh position.

00:17:01Hülkenberg was a driver who was very happy

00:17:03in the early stages of Friday,

00:17:06lost the pace when others stepped forward in sprint qualifying.

00:17:10He's in eighth at the moment,

00:17:11Alonso is in ninth and tenth.

00:17:13Then we go into the danger zone with Bortoleto,

00:17:15who has been the lead selber

00:17:17in both of the qualifying sessions so far this year.

00:17:19Stroll in 12 minutes,

00:17:20Ocon Casley and Sainz on the bubble.

00:17:22In the drop zone right now,

00:17:24Antonelli, Lawson,

00:17:25Doohan and the driver we're riding on board with.

00:17:28This isn't what you call epic lap at the moment.

00:17:32It's sort of tantalisingly close enough

00:17:34to appear like he's trying to do a lap,

00:17:36but in terms of performance,

00:17:38it's looking like it's growing

00:17:40towards being a second off for Stampton's time.

00:17:44Yeah, losing a lot of time in that first sector,

00:17:47Charles Leclerc,

00:17:47in comparison to Lando Norris,

00:17:48who's just gone through it four tenths of a second quicker

00:17:51with the fastest so far.

00:17:53Only tenth for Charles Leclerc.

00:17:54A lot of time left on the table, though.

00:17:56He's going to want to hurry around to the pits

00:17:57because that's not enough for Leclerc either.

00:17:59Not enough for him at the moment.

00:18:01Same set of tyres.

00:18:01He's going to have to put on a new set of boots

00:18:03and improve on that one.

00:18:05Norris is going better,

00:18:06was going better through the first sector.

00:18:10Still a bit of movement through that final corner.

00:18:13DRS open.

00:18:14Lando Norris looking for a time

00:18:15that can take him through.

00:18:16Sixth for the British driver.

00:18:19And in the background,

00:18:19Antonelli going again

00:18:20because he needs to

00:18:22and he finds the third fastest time.

00:18:23That's exactly what the young Italian teenager needed.

00:18:26It's not a brilliant up for Norris either.

00:18:27We just joined him for the final corner

00:18:29having a bit of a snap through the apex.

00:18:31He dropped a few tenths to Isaac Hadjar

00:18:33in the middle sector.

00:18:34Hadjar is the fastest of all.

00:18:36We might find out why here at turn six.

00:18:40He's running out of road

00:18:41and he's running out of traction

00:18:42coming out of that corner.

00:18:44Yeah, they seem to be comfortable

00:18:45to what I would call overspeed the entry phase

00:18:49and compromise a bit the line on exit.

00:18:51Didn't sound like he lifted

00:18:52as he ran over the curb

00:18:54but it's certainly not ideal for traction.

00:18:56Norris can't be safe with that.

00:18:57I know he's just jumped up into seventh place.

00:18:59Oh, yeah.

00:19:00Sorry, Julian.

00:19:00You saw there.

00:19:01He turned in,

00:19:02lost the rear,

00:19:03opened the steering

00:19:03and big hesitation.

00:19:05Yeah, so that's why he can't feel safe.

00:19:07This is Lawson's lap

00:19:08going a little bit pear-shaped

00:19:10at the second corner there.

00:19:12All part of the first turn, really.

00:19:13One and two together.

00:19:14Slowing it through the right.

00:19:16Then you're scrabbling around

00:19:17on the exit as well.

00:19:18So that's why that's messy

00:19:19and he's 19.

00:19:20Norris in seventh

00:19:21is two tenths inside the drop zone.

00:19:23Yeah, it's so tight.

00:19:25That's modern Formula One.

00:19:26Just when we had that on board with Lawson,

00:19:28everyone wants to see

00:19:30how that first sector should be driven.

00:19:32You just need to go on board

00:19:33with any of Lewis Hamilton's laps.

00:19:35He doesn't fight the car.

00:19:36He doesn't try and over-hustle it.

00:19:39You know, he's got the patience

00:19:40to let the car roll

00:19:42as the speed comes off.

00:19:43And that's key to him

00:19:44being quick through there.

00:19:46Liam Lawson does have a chance.

00:19:47He was noted by race control

00:19:49for failing to slow under yellow flag.

00:19:51He's been cleared of that.

00:19:53No further investigation required.

00:19:55So if he can find a lap time,

00:19:57he will go through.

00:19:57But momentarily,

00:19:59a bit of concern down

00:20:00in the Red Bull garage.

00:20:01The only yellow flags

00:20:02we've had so far

00:20:03have been for Liam Lawson spinning

00:20:05at turns nine and ten.

00:20:07Very slow coast across the line.

00:20:10There are a number of drivers

00:20:12not seeing anything waved

00:20:16out of the commentary box window.

00:20:18But the drivers really backing off

00:20:19on that main straight.

00:20:20So Leclerc was on a new set of tyres

00:20:22when he did his time.

00:20:24It just wasn't a great lap.

00:20:25So he's doing a double call

00:20:26to give himself a chance.

00:20:28I think there's a big threat

00:20:29of a top-line driver going out here

00:20:32with the mess that we're seeing,

00:20:33the tight times.

00:20:34Norris scampering back to the pits,

00:20:36is he?

00:20:36Or is he staying out there?

00:20:38It's tricky for everyone.

00:20:39On board with Hamilton.

00:20:42And is he going to defy

00:20:43what I said about him?

00:20:45There you go.

00:20:46Commentary curse.

00:20:47Any of the laps

00:20:48but that one.

00:20:48That one.

00:20:49It's all right.

00:20:50We'll edit it out.

00:20:51It's fine.

00:20:52You don't need to be

00:20:53a hardcore racer

00:20:54to see oversteer

00:20:56when the gloves appear

00:20:57at the top of the cockpit.

00:21:00That is massive opposite lock.

00:21:02It's a very long first turn.

00:21:05So many drivers

00:21:06getting that snap of oversteer

00:21:07all the way through.

00:21:09Now that's the engineer,

00:21:11Ricky,

00:21:12that you hear on the radio.

00:21:14Once speaking to Carlos Sainz,

00:21:15now speaking to Lewis Hamilton.

00:21:17They were arguing

00:21:18over track position

00:21:18in the background.

00:21:19They're still arguing

00:21:20over track position

00:21:21in the background.

00:21:22Lewis Hamilton,

00:21:23Gabriel Bortoleto,

00:21:24Fernando Alonso as well.

00:21:26Drivers under pressure.

00:21:28Everyone really has

00:21:29to step forward here.

00:21:30The current drop zone

00:21:30is Ocon, Gasly,

00:21:32Sainz, Lawson and Doohan.

00:21:34So Doohan was the lead

00:21:35Alpine in sprint qualifying

00:21:36but Ocon has just not

00:21:38got on well with that

00:21:39Haas at the start of the year.

00:21:40Gasly went out

00:21:42in the first part of qualifying

00:21:43and then seemed much happier

00:21:44in race trim,

00:21:45didn't he, earlier on?

00:21:46But Alpine staring

00:21:47at a double Q1 exit

00:21:50across the weekend.

00:21:51We know about Liam Lawson.

00:21:52Can he find a lap time

00:21:54to change the narrative

00:21:55of his season?

00:21:56And if Carlos Sainz

00:21:57didn't understand

00:21:58the Williams yesterday,

00:21:59he doesn't seem

00:22:00to have the answers.

00:22:02Driver who had

00:22:02good underlying pace

00:22:04over one lap in Melbourne

00:22:05down in 18.

00:22:06George, just so it is clear,

00:22:08we do need this next lap.

00:22:10Yeah, they've got one lap.

00:22:12Everyone has one lap here

00:22:13and Formula One

00:22:15covered all cars

00:22:16by just over a second.

00:22:18Russell, Leclerc and Norris,

00:22:20three of the front runners,

00:22:22have all done a lap

00:22:23on new tyres already.

00:22:23They're on the same tyres

00:22:24and that's why he's being told

00:22:25there by his engineer

00:22:26Marcus Dudley,

00:22:27you've got to do it this lap.

00:22:28They've been going round slowly

00:22:29waiting for the final one,

00:22:31cooling the tyres

00:22:32but they don't have

00:22:33the bite of a new set of tyres.

00:22:35They've already used them.

00:22:37So Verstappen is in the pit, mate.

00:22:39Everyone else is out there

00:22:40either learning

00:22:41or looking over their shoulders.

00:22:43you have to improve your time

00:22:45right now

00:22:46and that means finding a balance

00:22:48around the 16 turns

00:22:49of Shanghai International.

00:22:51The track runs to 3.3 miles,

00:22:535.4 kilometres.

00:22:54Alonso's gone early

00:22:55and you can see

00:22:56how much he's improving.

00:22:58His time is being compared

00:22:59to Max Verstappen right now.

00:23:01The track will take

00:23:02a sizable step forward.

00:23:03Yeah, has everyone

00:23:04started their lap

00:23:06as we just get

00:23:06to the final seconds?

00:23:08Is anyone not going to

00:23:10get across the line?

00:23:12Ocon just crossing the line now.

00:23:14And he needs to

00:23:15because he's in the drop zone

00:23:16and he does not want

00:23:17to have this narrative forming

00:23:19of Oliver Behrman.

00:23:20So Behrman didn't get over the line.

00:23:22Hülkenberg finds himself

00:23:23in seventh at the moment.

00:23:25Alonso and Charles Leclerc

00:23:26are pretty similar

00:23:26through the first sector.

00:23:27How does it develop

00:23:28through sector two?

00:23:30Two-time world champion

00:23:31across the line

00:23:31to sixth place.

00:23:33So Behrman's in huge trouble.

00:23:34That's a real error

00:23:35from Haas not getting him out.

00:23:38Charles Leclerc now

00:23:39finds himself

00:23:39into turn 16.

00:23:41He's not looked comfortable

00:23:42all the way through.

00:23:43He's been the second

00:23:44slowest Ferrari

00:23:44all the way through the weekend

00:23:46and now he's second

00:23:47in the order.

00:23:48Lap when it counts

00:23:49for the man from Monaco.

00:23:50Charles Leclerc into second.

00:23:52Yuki Tsunoda

00:23:53goes past our commentary box

00:23:54and he's fastest

00:23:56in a racing bull.

00:23:57Next to George Russell

00:23:58who's dropped down

00:23:59to 14th position

00:24:00told by his engineer

00:24:01that this is the lap

00:24:02that he needs it.

00:24:03He too delivers

00:24:04up to second place.

00:24:06Norris shuffled down to 12th

00:24:07but he's just behind

00:24:08and should be about

00:24:09to leap up the order as well.

00:24:10Hajar goes to the top.

00:24:11The times are shuffling

00:24:12like a pack of cards.

00:24:13Isaac Hajar

00:24:14didn't take the start

00:24:15a week ago.

00:24:16He was momentarily fastest.

00:24:18He's been replaced

00:24:19by Lando Norris

00:24:20at the front.

00:24:21Drivers under pressure

00:24:22found a lap time

00:24:23including Carlos Sainz

00:24:24who improved enormously there

00:24:26when he needed to.

00:24:27His teammate goes

00:24:28into sixth position.

00:24:29In the drop zone

00:24:30and heading out

00:24:30is Gabriel Bortoleto.

00:24:32Gasly is down there.

00:24:33Went out in sprint qualifying one.

00:24:35Doesn't want the same thing again.

00:24:37He's on the brink.

00:24:38He's in 15th.

00:24:39Hamilton is not on the lap here.

00:24:42Finds himself down in 11th.

00:24:44Lawson is down in 19th.

00:24:46Make that 20th.

00:24:47Estevan Ocon finds the time.

00:24:49Gasly improved

00:24:50but he's now demoted again

00:24:52by his old teammate.

00:24:54Behrman didn't get a chance

00:24:55to respond.

00:24:56Doohan goes out.

00:24:57Bortoleto goes out.

00:24:58And once again

00:25:00when you get the stopwatch out

00:25:01inexplicably

00:25:03it's Liam Lawson

00:25:04in the Red Bull

00:25:05who's at the back

00:25:05of the pack.

00:25:07He improved

00:25:08all three sectors.

00:25:09Lawson

00:25:10we saw the end

00:25:11of his first lap

00:25:12on board

00:25:12and it didn't look

00:25:13like he was absolutely

00:25:14on the ragged edge.

00:25:16This was the fighting

00:25:16to get the lap in.

00:25:18This was the fighting

00:25:18to get on with it.

00:25:20And Behrman

00:25:21who was the lead Haas

00:25:22ahead of Estevan Ocon

00:25:23before that first run

00:25:25dropping down

00:25:25to 17th.

00:25:27In the end

00:25:27Pierre Gasly missed out

00:25:28by six hundredths

00:25:29of a second.

00:25:30That's the difference

00:25:31between going through

00:25:32and going out.

00:25:33Yeah.

00:25:33There was the biggest

00:25:34of car parts

00:25:35in the pit lane

00:25:35and in the end

00:25:36if you were way down

00:25:37the end of that line

00:25:38you start running

00:25:39out of options.

00:25:40Not getting across

00:25:41the line

00:25:41before checkered flag

00:25:42that's inexcusable

00:25:44communication

00:25:45between engineer

00:25:46and race driver.

00:25:47Yeah.

00:25:47For a team

00:25:48that had a back row

00:25:49lockout in Melbourne

00:25:50albeit pulled Behrman

00:25:52into the pits

00:25:53to start

00:25:53just need to get

00:25:54the cars on track

00:25:55to be able to do

00:25:56the lap

00:25:56and actually Behrman

00:25:57has been the quicker

00:25:57of the two

00:25:58but he's out.

00:25:59Gasly will be fuming

00:26:00to be out in Q1

00:26:02as well

00:26:02after yesterday.

00:26:03Both Alpine's

00:26:04not making it through.

00:26:05The one I'm just bemused

00:26:07by is Lawson.

00:26:08Yeah.

00:26:08This is a psychologist's

00:26:10textbook scenario

00:26:12to do analysis on.

00:26:14Well part of the reason

00:26:15that he was put in

00:26:16the Red Bull

00:26:16is because of his

00:26:17bullishness

00:26:18and we saw that

00:26:19when he jumped in

00:26:19last year

00:26:20as he looked like

00:26:20he was taking

00:26:21no prisoners

00:26:21in the midfield

00:26:22wheel to wheel

00:26:23with Perez

00:26:23and his feisty

00:26:25aggressive mentality

00:26:26that the Red Bull

00:26:28management thought

00:26:29was going to suit

00:26:30them for that

00:26:30second car

00:26:31but I just

00:26:32can't explain

00:26:33how he could be

00:26:35seven tenths away

00:26:36from Max Verstappen

00:26:38doing one lap

00:26:39on a used tyre

00:26:40in that session.

00:26:41Max didn't have to

00:26:42go back out

00:26:42he was safely through.

00:26:44Last year

00:26:45Liam Lawson

00:26:46outqualified

00:26:476-0

00:26:48by Yuki Tsunoda

00:26:49the driver

00:26:49who is third

00:26:50in that session

00:26:52behind Isaac Hadjar.

00:26:53What a difference

00:26:54six days make.

00:26:57Tears of anguish

00:26:58for Hadjar

00:27:00in Melbourne

00:27:00the second fastest

00:27:02time in Q1

00:27:03in Shanghai.

00:27:06Right the perplexing

00:27:07thing is

00:27:07you've got Hadjar

00:27:08second

00:27:09Tsunoda third

00:27:11so Lawson

00:27:12sitting there

00:27:12in the Red Bull

00:27:13that he was chuffed

00:27:13to get called up to

00:27:14and he must just

00:27:15look at his former

00:27:16team and think

00:27:16what am I doing

00:27:17in this car?

00:27:18He's

00:27:19this is a

00:27:20it's a

00:27:21bad luck

00:27:22you've been promoted

00:27:22it doesn't make

00:27:23any sense

00:27:24or are you

00:27:24thinking he's

00:27:25going to go back

00:27:25to racing bulls

00:27:26and say

00:27:26I'll have that

00:27:27back please.

00:27:29Too stressful

00:27:29guys

00:27:29just a state chill

00:27:31I was confident

00:27:32with the

00:27:32and it just puts

00:27:34too much pressure

00:27:35on us all.

00:27:38Too stressful

00:27:39sums up the

00:27:39weekend so far

00:27:40it's been manic

00:27:41out there

00:27:41with these sprint

00:27:42formats

00:27:43George Russell

00:27:43just giving a note

00:27:44of operation

00:27:45to the team

00:27:45there.

00:27:46Yeah

00:27:46it's difficult

00:27:47when cars

00:27:48are just circulating

00:27:48some of them

00:27:49on outlaps

00:27:49some of them

00:27:50have already done

00:27:50flying laps

00:27:51like Russell

00:27:51he's trying to

00:27:52find his own

00:27:52space

00:27:53and sometimes

00:27:54he can be

00:27:54flapping in the

00:27:55garage

00:27:56the drivers

00:27:56obviously

00:27:56just need

00:27:57a bit of

00:27:57calmness

00:27:58OK

00:27:59let's go to

00:28:00Alex Brundle

00:28:01for a look

00:28:01at the headline

00:28:02of Q1

00:28:03interesting one

00:28:05isn't it

00:28:05gents

00:28:05you've got

00:28:06the RBs

00:28:06up there

00:28:07setting purple

00:28:07sectors

00:28:08up in the

00:28:09top three

00:28:10and then Liam

00:28:10Lawson

00:28:11as you've

00:28:11said

00:28:11really languishing

00:28:12I'm just

00:28:12in the paddock

00:28:13here

00:28:13waiting for the

00:28:14drivers who are

00:28:15out in Q1

00:28:15to rock up

00:28:16but let's have

00:28:17a look

00:28:17through the lap

00:28:18of Lawson

00:28:20and see what

00:28:21we can spot

00:28:21here

00:28:21so Neil and

00:28:22tidy out of

00:28:23the final

00:28:23corner

00:28:241.1

00:28:25seconds

00:28:26adrift

00:28:26and of course

00:28:28out in the

00:28:28first part

00:28:29of qualifying

00:28:30slightly tentative

00:28:31through that

00:28:32first apex

00:28:32and to me

00:28:34it just looks

00:28:34like he's

00:28:35just behind

00:28:36the speed

00:28:38that he needs

00:28:38to be taking

00:28:39through just

00:28:39the attack

00:28:40that he needs

00:28:41to be taking

00:28:41through that

00:28:42first apex

00:28:43of the lap

00:28:44the word

00:28:44you use

00:28:45JP

00:28:45through the

00:28:46final corner

00:28:47was tentative

00:28:48and the whole

00:28:49lap looks

00:28:49tentative

00:28:50again rolling

00:28:51out of a

00:28:51throttle

00:28:51rolling into

00:28:52the brake

00:28:52there's not

00:28:53that brake

00:28:54impact

00:28:54and the

00:28:54chassis

00:28:55thrown forward

00:28:56like you

00:28:57see when

00:28:58Verstappen is

00:28:58attacking that

00:28:59braking zone

00:29:00down at

00:29:00six

00:29:00carries decent

00:29:01speed into

00:29:02seven but

00:29:03then look

00:29:03slightly out of

00:29:04position on

00:29:05his way into

00:29:05turn eight

00:29:06and a bit of

00:29:07an inkling

00:29:07through the

00:29:08middle of eight

00:29:08you see the

00:29:09little shimmy

00:29:09on the steering

00:29:10wheel there

00:29:11he's just not

00:29:12comfortable in the

00:29:13balance

00:29:13as he makes

00:29:14his way through

00:29:14the exit of

00:29:15turn ten

00:29:15there not

00:29:16happy to

00:29:17crank the

00:29:17steering wheel

00:29:18again and

00:29:19really lean on

00:29:20the outside

00:29:21rear tyre but

00:29:22the line is

00:29:23just not quite

00:29:24super sharp for

00:29:26Lawson all the

00:29:27way around the

00:29:27lap and I

00:29:28think it is

00:29:28indicative of a

00:29:29driver who is

00:29:31feeling the

00:29:31pressure firstly

00:29:32but also just

00:29:34doesn't appear to

00:29:35have total

00:29:36confidence every

00:29:37time he turns

00:29:38the steering wheel

00:29:38which we've been

00:29:39talking about it

00:29:39all weekend in

00:29:40these long

00:29:41corners you have

00:29:42to have the

00:29:43confidence that

00:29:43as you load

00:29:44the tyre more

00:29:46and more and

00:29:46more the rear is

00:29:47not going to

00:29:48just snap on

00:29:49you late in

00:29:49the corner this

00:29:50is the final

00:29:50corner that we

00:29:51saw with him

00:29:53when we when we

00:29:54jumped onto his

00:29:54lap and saw him

00:29:55cross the line and

00:29:56as you can see

00:29:57he just again not

00:29:59happy to crank not

00:30:00happy to crank the

00:30:01steering wheel little

00:30:02bit tentative you

00:30:03know and it's a

00:30:04driver who every

00:30:06time he's attacked

00:30:06that car every

00:30:08time he's gone for

00:30:08it there's been an

00:30:10error there and I

00:30:11think it's playing

00:30:11out in that

00:30:12qualifying performance

00:30:13thank you Alex

00:30:18appreciate the

00:30:19analysis there and

00:30:21a poignant graphic

00:30:22and a poignant

00:30:22message on the

00:30:23Aston Martin

00:30:25remembering one of

00:30:26Formula One's great

00:30:27characters Eddie

00:30:28Jordan who passed

00:30:30away earlier in the

00:30:31week

00:30:32Max Verstappen is

00:30:35the sole remaining

00:30:36Red Bull in the

00:30:37session Liam Lawson

00:30:38is finding himself

00:30:40with the slowest

00:30:42time in both

00:30:43sessions as well

00:30:44and the driver

00:30:46from New Zealand

00:30:47who has worked so

00:30:49hard to get to

00:30:50Formula One

00:30:50enduring a really

00:30:52tough time at the

00:30:54moment and

00:30:55searching for

00:30:56answers we talked

00:30:58about how difficult

00:30:59that second Red Bull

00:31:01seat has become

00:31:02at Lawson after

00:31:04just 11 Grand

00:31:06Prix promoted to

00:31:07the senior team

00:31:07given the chance

00:31:08Alex Alvin was

00:31:09given an opportunity

00:31:10after 12 races and

00:31:12had a season and a

00:31:13bit before he was

00:31:14dropped Sergio

00:31:15Perez was brought

00:31:16in Perez obviously

00:31:18winning races with the

00:31:19team he won five

00:31:19Grand Prix with Red

00:31:21Bull but again the

00:31:22performance disappearing

00:31:23new race engineer

00:31:25again for Liam

00:31:27Lawson at the

00:31:28moment the engineering

00:31:29side of the garage and

00:31:31the driver unable to

00:31:32find a way out of Q1

00:31:34this is Q2 we have a

00:31:37green light at the end

00:31:38of the pit lane we

00:31:39have 15 cars remaining

00:31:41the five to four

00:31:42Gasly, Behrman, Behrman

00:31:44was an operational

00:31:44error Doohan makes it

00:31:46two Alpines out in

00:31:48two Q1s across the

00:31:50weekend SQ1 and

00:31:51original qualifying

00:31:53Q1 and then Gabriel

00:31:54Bortoleto first time

00:31:56in his time three

00:31:57sessions with the team

00:31:58he's been the slowest

00:31:59of the Sauber drivers

00:32:00Liam Lawson who we've

00:32:02spoken about

00:32:03looking for answers and

00:32:05looking for space on the

00:32:06racetrack plenty of

00:32:07drivers queued up right

00:32:08now waiting they're all

00:32:09slowly making their way

00:32:10out of the pit

00:32:12so at the end of Q1

00:32:14there the big guns all

00:32:16got through

00:32:16Hamilton was sliding

00:32:18down towards 11th position

00:32:19and there was a point

00:32:20where I wasn't sure if

00:32:21he'd definitely be safe

00:32:22that's how how things

00:32:23can change

00:32:23he he had a

00:32:25similar run at it

00:32:26as everyone else

00:32:27got some laps on the

00:32:28board and now can have a

00:32:29reset look like he was on

00:32:30a scrub set of tires

00:32:31as he was or is about

00:32:33to uh to be released

00:32:35from the garage at

00:32:36Ferrari but it's

00:32:37it's just a scramble

00:32:38isn't it at the end

00:32:39especially when everyone

00:32:39waits for the last

00:32:40moment there

00:32:41now you can reset

00:32:42look at some look at

00:32:43some data make some

00:32:44tweaks to the car

00:32:45and try and collect

00:32:46your thoughts with

00:32:47five five cars out of

00:32:48it already you get a

00:32:49bit more space

00:32:50well I challenge you

00:32:51to name any other

00:32:53championship that the

00:32:54grid is this tight

00:32:55one week championships

00:32:57don't have the grid

00:32:58covered by a second

00:32:59yeah q1 has become

00:33:01unbelievably difficult

00:33:03because the standard

00:33:05required there's no

00:33:07allowance we talked

00:33:09about this a week ago

00:33:10when you used to have

00:33:11pole positions decided

00:33:12by over a second

00:33:13and now we've got the

00:33:14entirety of the grid

00:33:15almost glued together

00:33:17it means that big names

00:33:18are always at risk the

00:33:19same applies for this

00:33:20session as well we've

00:33:21lost one red ball and

00:33:23if we were in many

00:33:25other years we'd expect

00:33:26that to be the case

00:33:26this is red bull's

00:33:27second decade of

00:33:29competition they're

00:33:30celebrating 20 years

00:33:31they've had the

00:33:32championships four

00:33:33drivers championships

00:33:34with sebastian

00:33:35vettel four of them

00:33:35with max Verstappen

00:33:37Verstappen this year

00:33:37trying to be only the

00:33:39second driver in the

00:33:39history of the

00:33:40championship along with

00:33:41michael schumacher to

00:33:41win five in a row

00:33:43but at the moment

00:33:44they can't find a way

00:33:45to get that second

00:33:45red bull into q2

00:33:48yeah it is a mystery

00:33:51and the debate will go

00:33:52on do red bull build

00:33:54a car for one driver

00:33:55and actually saw

00:33:57christian honor being

00:33:58challenged on that this

00:33:59weekend what is it that

00:34:00max wants from a car and

00:34:02he explains that it's just

00:34:03so much front end he

00:34:05asked him more and more

00:34:06and more front end and

00:34:08well as julian knows well

00:34:11a nervous rear is one of

00:34:13the most difficult things

00:34:14to deal with if that's not

00:34:16your thing and it wasn't

00:34:18my thing so you know it

00:34:20just makes it so tricky

00:34:21when you commit at speed to

00:34:23know how far is the

00:34:24rear going to move and

00:34:25with the size of these

00:34:26cars and the momentum that

00:34:29then moves in the role

00:34:30before you actually get that

00:34:31sort of set point you

00:34:33know there's always that

00:34:34point from when you input

00:34:35the steering to the car

00:34:37taking it set and it may

00:34:39only be a few milliseconds but

00:34:42it's the difference between

00:34:43absolute confidence absolute

00:34:45commitment and absolute fear

00:34:47drivers are out there setting

00:34:50their first laps in the

00:34:51session george russell going

00:34:52out early and george russell

00:34:55assuming the role of team

00:34:57leader looking at his

00:34:58teammate first of all to set

00:34:59the time and then russell's

00:35:01a few meters back on the road

00:35:02kimmy antinelli is the first

00:35:05mercedes to cross the line

00:35:0618 year old from northern

00:35:09italy drs open and goes as

00:35:13you would expect with the

00:35:13first push lap ahead of

00:35:14esteban ocon and a direct

00:35:16comparison between rookie and

00:35:18experienced hand and there's

00:35:20two tenths of a second between

00:35:21the two of them on the first

00:35:23runs in q2 but the racing

00:35:25bulls have found a balance

00:35:27haven't they because they're

00:35:27right in the mix when it comes

00:35:30to taking on the mercedes this

00:35:32is visor cam through the

00:35:33final corner let's see what

00:35:34sort of time it is for isaac

00:35:36hajar and it fell away at the

00:35:38end there he'll be

00:35:39disappointed because his

00:35:40teammate going really nicely

00:35:42in the first two sectors of

00:35:44the racetrack yuki sunoda who

00:35:46got points earlier on sixth

00:35:48place for him holding off

00:35:49kimmy antinelli and

00:35:52antinelli was there all race

00:35:54long japanese driver has one

00:35:55corner to go and now he is

00:35:58going to show us the pace of

00:35:59that car and the pace of that

00:36:01car is quicker than one of the

00:36:02mercedes in the field second

00:36:03place for him that great visor

00:36:06cam that we had with hadger

00:36:07also gave us driver

00:36:09disappointment cam head shake

00:36:11as he went across the line

00:36:12saw the time and as you

00:36:13mentioned it fell away just in

00:36:15the end he's a driver that

00:36:16absolutely thrives on his

00:36:19emotion as we saw in the long

00:36:22walk back in melbourne you

00:36:24don't have to guess with isaac

00:36:25hajar you know how he is

00:36:27feeling lando norris has said a

00:36:29scorching timeout there go four

00:36:31tenths of a second faster than

00:36:32oscar piastri and charlotte

00:36:34claire's going to show us what

00:36:35his ferrari has got applying a

00:36:38little bit of opposite lock as

00:36:39he got the power down out of 14

00:36:42driver who was on the back foot in

00:36:44q1 earlier on and he finds himself

00:36:47down in seventh there's hamilton

00:36:50charlotte claire out of the box

00:36:51miles off the benchmark time set by

00:36:54the two mclarens max estafen is

00:36:56going to join this party right now

00:37:00with the third fastest time and he

00:37:02is four tenths of a second off

00:37:03lando norris's best norris's lap is

00:37:05scorching that's the fastest lap

00:37:06ever done around this circuit that

00:37:08he's just pumped in for us it's in

00:37:10all three sectors he's hooked it up

00:37:12and we just see if he can keep it

00:37:14hooked up now for the rest because

00:37:15that pace looks unmatchable at this

00:37:18stage the the caveat is russell

00:37:21wasn't on a new tie there and nor were

00:37:23the two ferrari so that's why they're

00:37:25a little bit further down than the

00:37:26rest but norris compared to piastri

00:37:29and verstappen a long way clear and

00:37:31finally puts a lot together i guess

00:37:33unsurprisingly hamilton with that

00:37:35confidence coming from the sprint

00:37:38victory again being lead in terms of

00:37:41pace at ferrari look at no point this

00:37:44this weekend through free practice or

00:37:46anything else has really looped on top

00:37:49of his ferrari chasing a balance and

00:37:52chasing an understanding incredibly

00:37:55strong qualifier usually 26 times he's

00:37:58taken pole position in his formula one

00:38:00career second most in team history only

00:38:03behind michael schumacher as they are

00:38:07say yeah finding themselves heading back

00:38:10to the pit lane so the order for you

00:38:13lando norris ahead of oscar piastri

00:38:14mclaren 1-2 then it's verstappen russell

00:38:18sunoda antonelli hamilton alban again

00:38:21alban in the top 10 charles claire again

00:38:24chasing the balance but as jolien

00:38:25pointed out for you no fresh tires for

00:38:28the ferraris so we've got an incomplete

00:38:29picture which finishes with hulkenberg in

00:38:3110th and it's stroll in 11th ocon hajar who

00:38:34had a mistake on his lap time fell away so

00:38:36he knows what his teammate is paid for and

00:38:39he knows what he did in q1 when he was

00:38:41ahead with the second fastest time last two

00:38:43spanish pair of alonso and science

00:38:46hamilton then stranded in the pit lane

00:38:48because he's just been pushed onto the

00:38:49way bridge

00:38:50the dreaded way bridge random can be

00:38:53pulled in at any time during the entire

00:38:55weekend but sometimes it can upset your

00:38:57run plan

00:38:58absolutely it's frustrating of course

00:39:01it's just a necessity of the fia to make

00:39:04sure that cars are running legal at all

00:39:05points during qualifying and of course

00:39:08they get to do that after the race but

00:39:10as a driver you want to get back to the

00:39:12test download with your engineers have the

00:39:15tire pressures checked as well all of these

00:39:17little touch points that just give you the

00:39:18confidence you're building the session the

00:39:20way you would like it to be and actually

00:39:22that didn't take too long for hamilton that

00:39:23was pretty efficient there from uh from fia and

00:39:26the mechanics to to get him fired up but it's

00:39:29also not ideal that he gets pulled in when he

00:39:31needs to do a lap on the next one it's

00:39:33easier if you're norris and you've just done a

00:39:34great lap to just relax a little bit you know

00:39:36you're safely through whereas lewis will want to

00:39:38be doing what nika holkenberg's doing and looking at a printout of how he can find a bit more time and uh and and go quicker now needs to unlock that little bit we know he can do it because he's done it already this weekend but the pressure of one lap coming up for both ferraris

00:39:52it's a wonderful pressure though it's the magic moment you do not get a faster

00:39:59opportunity as you mentioned some have been out on scrub tires as they're just

00:40:03finding their way into this middle part of qualifying but when we get to the final

00:40:09top 10 shootout there is no more beautiful feeling on a racetrack

00:40:14few tires max engine track as good as it's going to get

00:40:20that that's not a pressure that's a pleasure

00:40:23we're going to see some more flying laps now

00:40:27these are the fastest ever laps of shanghai international circuit

00:40:31a venue used for the first time in form one history back in 2004

00:40:36a new surface it is grippy it is fast it is smooth

00:40:40and it's great for us because trackside we're able to see the drivers

00:40:44on the edge i feel like we've been here before early in the weekend with lando norris miles

00:40:49clear of everyone it's just can he carry it all the way through the session now and deliver the

00:40:55underlying pace story of mclaren's weekend clearly that car is fast but it's been all over the road

00:41:01and difficult to contain for the three miles of shanghai yeah i think that the drivers talk now about in

00:41:07this modern era formula one a lot of aero performance coming from the underside of the car

00:41:13getting it in the window where you've got the tires optimized the surface temperature

00:41:18where you end up with your pressures depending what you've decided for your outlaps

00:41:23there's so many variables that if you do hit that sweet spot

00:41:26you then get what is a sizable lap time difference at this point i don't expect it to be as much once

00:41:34it all comes out in the wash at the end but this is a great confidence inspiring opening lap from

00:41:41norris there and piastri is probably sitting there looking at the data going okay i can see where that

00:41:48performance is coming from and there's probably somewhere on the lap where he's thinking i'm not

00:41:52sure i can do that he's gone back out on a scrub tire now piastri so he's not gone for a new tire

00:41:57as we jumped on board with him there cruising around an outlet because the temperatures are so

00:42:01hot now keeping those tires cool and the outlap is key but he obviously wants to try and figure out

00:42:05how he can do something different from the cockpit before q3 the mclaren's should be safe with what

00:42:10they've done unlike plenty of the others towards the bottom end and antonelli like he was starting that

00:42:15lap but will bail and go for another one had a moment in the first turn and gets out of the way because

00:42:20his teammate is about to charge through another driver getting to the end of the first turn having

00:42:25the correction of oversteer and knowing the lap is gone bail out call the tires recharge and go

00:42:31again antonelli currently finds himself in sixth position but with the ferraris yet to bolt on

00:42:37a new set of soft tires george russell heading through the fast up through seven and eight

00:42:43yeah just listening on board they're absolutely flat as he went through the left of seven

00:42:48clicks it down the gears and as the speed comes off the car becomes a bit more tricky

00:42:53to position and manage but uh definitely as he uh done 24-2 in that first sector which is

00:43:01a little bit three tenths down um so more performance to come and uh likewise in the middle sector so this

00:43:07is still really about feeling where the car is at the magic is stuck okay so maybe that is what

00:43:17happened to uh to antonelli then the uh the old brake magic brake magic i haven't heard that for a

00:43:22couple of years button on the steering wheel affects the temperatures and affects your performance

00:43:29certainly through a turn like turn one from turn one to turn 16 george russell needing a lot of time

00:43:35to comfortably book his place in the next part of qualifying he's on for about second after two

00:43:41thirds of the lap time falling away he remains in fourth lewis hamilton fastest middle sector of

00:43:47anyone so far everyone has had a chance to reset the cars park ferme has been lifted they've had a

00:43:55chance to change to implement what they learned in sprint qualifying and the sprint race earlier on

00:43:59and hamilton is still rapid yeah but considering he's done the fastest middle sector it shows what he's

00:44:03lost in the first and he was fighting the car coming through 12 and 13 as well where leclair is

00:44:08right now on the left-hand side of your picture hamilton with two corners to go picking it up and this

00:44:14will be a handy improvement still for him to launch him towards the sharp end charlotte claire down in

00:44:19tenth position driver at risk as we progress from q2 to q3 hamilton up to sixth place again not a lot being

00:44:29found in that third sector at the moment charlotte claire is pushing on joe guanyu is the third

00:44:34driver for ferrari this year he's been cheered all the way around this racetrack with fan appearances

00:44:38and charlotte claire goes ahead of lewis hamilton up to sixth place both of the ferraris looking like

00:44:44he'd run out of grip come the final this final corner here that we join ocon there was no obvious

00:44:50signs of any issue under braking at the hairpin maybe a bit squirterly as you mentioned julian through

00:44:5511 12 13 ocon's giving himself a chance haja gets the lap that he needs he's up to fourth the ferraris are

00:45:03not safe hamilton's dropping down with that lap and so many drivers further back are looking to improve

00:45:08if we're looking at three of them on the bottom of the times this is antonelli ocon's in the drop zone

00:45:12so is hulkenberg the aston martin pair of stroll and alonso and signs hoping for a lap that just

00:45:18works in a way that no other has so far this weekend antonelli felt the need to go again after a mistake

00:45:24through turn number one had to bail out of it can he get near his teammate can he get anywhere close no

00:45:30he's at risk alex albin is currently in 10th but antonelli is vulnerable in ninth position

00:45:35fernando alonso is rotating his aston martin through the final corner not enough pace though the astons are out

00:45:42thirteenth and fourteenth and now signs is across the line and he still can't find a tune from that

00:45:49williams his teammate has managed to get into 10th position but he is out in the second part of

00:45:55qualifying ocon hulkenberg alonso ahead of stroll and the man you are looking at carlos signs the five

00:46:03to fall alex albin makes it through kimmy antonelli is ahead of him the ferraris didn't have great

00:46:10overall pace but they booked their place in q3 and this is on board with the man who finished sixth in

00:46:16the formula two championship last year yeah carried massive amount of speed on the first phase and then

00:46:21as you can see the ripples the bumps later in one blending into two just couldn't hold the car and

00:46:27started correcting that was the first lap with antonelli wasn't it is then he went again and was

00:46:32actually just five thousandths away from the best lap that he's that he's done that's been enough to

00:46:37take him through that is precisely the difference between him and albin who snuck through once again

00:46:42in 10th position and the ferraris hamilton pole yesterday of course fastest middle sector of

00:46:48anyone sneaking through by a tenth okay well that doesn't really we need to get on to alonso's

00:47:01engineer to ask him to expand on that we what was crazy was it traffic was it uh just generally getting

00:47:06everything into the window and well as we go on board now it's albin a lot of questions going into

00:47:14the year would he stand up to be challenged by a driver that's won grand prix and on the basis of

00:47:21well two qualifying sessions so far so good he was really relishing having a chance to prove himself

00:47:27up against a four-time grand prix winner he's done so much work behind the scenes to evaluate where he

00:47:34needs to improve he says that off track he's seen signs come into that team and been reminded that you

00:47:40need to keep on challenging that you don't just accept that how it is is how it is and he's been

00:47:45very motivated by signs appearance signs is still trying to unlock the balance of that car trying to

00:47:50understand how the williams operates compared to the ferrari but albin has had a fire lit underneath

00:47:55him he's in q3 again yeah i love your turn of phrase when you go he's trying to find a tune on that

00:48:01williams i'll i'll try not steal that too often it's a it's a great expression where in the same way

00:48:07the great musicians find something with their yeah he's just stuck in a whisker

00:48:12go on go on

00:48:15yeah come on three hundredths is a luxury margin on this weekend yeah punching the air as well

00:48:23it doesn't matter what the time difference is as long as it's in your favor so he gets through and

00:48:29he's delighted to do so but how about the turn of pace from the racing bulls isaac hajar said in the

00:48:35thursday press conference he was so relieved this was a back-to-back he said the most important

00:48:39thing for him is he got another opportunity after he was so disconsolate in melbourne he's turned up

00:48:46and again after two parts of qualifying he's the lead racing bull yeah that car is clearly working

00:48:53well and what was painful to watch in melbourne that emotional long walk back not the only driver

00:49:00to make a mistake there much more experienced guys dropped it during that challenging grand prix but

00:49:06he's bounced back uh clearly felt the change oh could have pushed more

00:49:14well that's the sort of thing you want to hear a driver that realizes there's more potential there's

00:49:20more opportunity well we have our top 10 order set before we get to q3 let's get some analysis with alex

00:49:27brundle nice to hear the fight from uh from last year's uh formula two championship runner-up we've

00:49:33had the three rookies that are out in q1 uh through the pen lawson obviously looking dejected doing a

00:49:39bit more calm they know the situation uh down at alpine with the rear wing change they have to make

00:49:44and at least gasly is more experienced teammate was out in q1 as well portoletto looking angry you've

00:49:50got to remember that that's the first time in his grand prix career he's actually found himself out

00:49:55in the first part of qualifying agree with you guys what a session it's been for rb so far

00:50:01sonoda actually ends that session fastest uh in the middle sector and i want to take a look at it

00:50:08and just see where that car is plugged in if we can because i'm sure it's it's pretty impressive

00:50:13norris fastest in the first in the final down towards turn six then car follows uh the steering

00:50:19wheel nicely for sonoda all looking calm at the moment and i think that they're keeping the tire in

00:50:24through this middle sector we saw a couple of onboards from the ferrari where they're really

00:50:28starting to overheat the rear tire as they head in towards turn nine and ten lovely balance there for

00:50:34sonoda follows the steering wheel down towards uh the apex at nine and then takes off see how he can

00:50:38lean on the rear tire out through 10 and then can be aggressive on the brakes down towards uh 11 and 12

00:50:46and then sonoda uh making his way through the exit so brilliant stuff from them that really really

00:50:52boding well not only for qualifying performance with both cars through to q3 but also to maintain

00:50:58the performance of the tire through a race distance because of course sector two where all the corners

00:51:03are no slip means no tired egg no tired egg means speed on grand prix sunday

00:51:08it is time for the third part of qualifying and it has been a weekend of fine margins we're getting

00:51:19used to that in modern times in formula one but intriguingly it is max verstappen instantly out to

00:51:27queue up first sometimes he wants to be last sometimes he wants to be first there's carlos sainz

00:51:32who will not make q3 in this round of the championship the second at 24 in 2025 and he

00:51:41watches his teammate take his place going through and punching the air tells you all you need to know

00:51:47about how motivated alex alvin is and that's the sort of shot that you see ending up in drive to

00:51:53survive isn't it when you see a shot of carlos sainz watching on with his teammates still taking part

00:51:58when he's off to be weighed yeah it is exactly as you see there that your teammate is the great

00:52:04misnomer his success is your failure and vice versa and you can have and you hope to have a good working

00:52:11relationship but do not be under any illusions that there's pleasure to be had in being the second

00:52:18driver in the team that p15 for carlos sainz that is his lowest ever start around this circuit he's raced

00:52:25here seven times before in shanghai a reference for you mclaren have not scored a top three start

00:52:31in grand prix qualifying here since lewis hamilton left the team at the end of 2012 this time last

00:52:37year they hadn't brought the update that transformed their season that won them the constructors

00:52:43championship by the time that we got to abu dhabi we have 12 minutes on the board we have many

00:52:48contenders for pole it's going to be a strong lap to take the second pole position of the year

00:52:54a reminder for you hey the graphics team have got it as well oscar piastri he's done it in the sprint

00:52:59format but never when it comes to the grand prix look at those eyes not even blinking absolute focus

00:53:07they're armed with all the information that their team can give them all the engineering knowledge

00:53:13all the track knowledge they know how the track will evolve as you go through the session track

00:53:19temperature stable as we go into the later part of the afternoon here and as i said earlier it's a

00:53:26pleasure to qualify a formula one car there is pressure of course when i said there wasn't of course

00:53:32there is but that pressure reduces when you're confident confident that you the car will go where

00:53:38you think you want it to be on the racetrack you're not fighting it and then if you can get a lap of

00:53:44perfection of course the lap time delivers so fascinating stories everywhere we look max

00:53:50estappen got within two hundredths of a second of sprint pole yesterday even though he's having to

00:53:54hustle that car in the way that others aren't this is a replay of a few moments ago first two cars out

00:54:02max estappen george russell heading into turn number one russell not interested in waiting and he takes his

00:54:09place at the head of the queue yeah all of those little things have a an effect as well russell

00:54:14obviously wanted to hustle hustle hustle on excuse me and max building his lap in a slightly different

00:54:21way russell now at turn 12 the staff and just arriving as we see there into turn 11.

00:54:27it's a bigger stop than maybe the camera angle affords us a view and then this constant roll through

00:54:35onto the uh the long back straight sector three out of 13 cambered there really you feel a grand prix

00:54:43car you feel the load building it is a wonderful feeling one thing we have seen in recent times is how

00:54:50much the wind can affect these modern formula one cars they are works of art they are incredibly quick

00:54:56you're about to watch the fastest times ever set around shanghai international but they're very sensitive

00:55:01dc and alex alban reporting on the radio that the wind has picked up lewis hamilton's q2 time

00:55:07was near six and a half tenths of a second slower than he's sprint pole time yeah well anyone who's

00:55:13flown will know what clear air turbulence feels like in an aircraft now you might think well what's that

00:55:19got to do with the grand prix car well the grand prix cars wings are just inverted instead of going along

00:55:24the runway and creating lift and taking you into the sky the faster you go it pushes the car into the

00:55:30tarmac but any turbulence any gusting wind has a massive effect in the overall load and a race car

00:55:37is like a set of scales if you have a tailwind it reduces the effect of the rear wing and it makes

00:55:42the scales tip on the nose and destabilizes the rear so you you're hoping that the racing gods will blow

00:55:49favorably upon you as you deliver the racing of the qualifying lap here's the man trying to repeat

00:55:55what he did last year and take grand prix pole position max verstappen was alongside his teammate

00:56:01sergio perez a year ago they locked out the front row part of a dominant run at the start of last year

00:56:08part of a fourth world championship campaign verstappen was on the front row for sprint qualifying

00:56:14yesterday didn't have the tire performance over 19 laps earlier today he said we're just not there

00:56:21in terms of the tire life compared to ferrari and mclaren but this is low fuel attacking laps and the man

00:56:28is trying to add to his collection of formula one pole positions verstappen rotating through the final two

00:56:34corners of the racetrack he will want pole number 41 today and this is his first effort in q3 across the

00:56:43line and he lines up with a 30.9 that's the benchmark for everyone to beat and antonelli brushes

00:56:50the gravel as he comes through losing a huge amount of time as well that's an opportunity for the likes

00:56:56of isaac hadjar one of the big four have had a wide moment hadjar goes ahead he manages to find a time

00:57:03half a second back from verstappen that's a good effort piastri is fast sector one and sector two yuki

00:57:10sunoda is behind his rookie teammate after the first push laps in q3 this is an absolutely scorching

00:57:18pace for a driver who has never taken a grand prix pole oscar piastri ahead of max verstappen

00:57:25provisionally to the front of the field the ferraris are next up and then it will be his teammate

00:57:31lando norris who was mighty quick in q2 lewis hamilton what a weekend he is having so far what a

00:57:38turnaround only third fastest behind the reigning world champion and the australian mclaren driver

00:57:44next up is charles leclerc who on the balance so far this weekend has been the slower of the two

00:57:49ferraris and the same applies once again he's three tenths of a second back from piastri what

00:57:55about lando norris though can he get on terms no he can't despite the fastest final sector so far

00:58:02he's nine hundredths of a second off mclaren won two but it's piastri ahead of norris yeah and the

00:58:07key to that time right now was that first sector piastri really built his lap strongly and i suspect if

00:58:15you put the best sectors between piastri and norris together we're going to get mid 30s and maybe even

00:58:23more there is so much time in that mclaren but you have to dance on the ragged edge george russell was

00:58:30doing the same thing through the final left-hander that completes the lap he splits the ferraris george

00:58:37russell behind his old teammate ahead of charles leclerc isaac hadja ahead of sunoda antonelli knows

00:58:44but if you can avoid the wide moment into the final turn there's more time as well and alex

00:58:49alban has separated the top 10 at the extremity of formula one qualifying by a second that's

00:58:55antonelli off the road time was deleted but the lap time was lost anyway yeah just a little bit late

00:59:00on turn into that final corner and you saw he was over the front tire and well had to lift out ran the

00:59:07gravel a little bit but the time it will not count but he now has a benchmark

00:59:14team for brussell 30.9 he's within a couple of temps of piastri but a couple of thousands is so

00:59:20difficult to find when you're on the limit lando norris trying to continue his run of being the lead

00:59:27mclaren on the grid last year in the head-to-head 20 times out of 24 races he was the lead

00:59:34mclaren piastri heads him with one run to go in q3 there's not much to find out there but we will

00:59:42expect the tires to be their best performance the track to be rubbered in the cars to be fastest

00:59:48it's a 130.7 the time to beat was always so impressive once you get into this final part of

00:59:56qualifying the track is as rubbered in as it's going to be this is where you really start to see what are

01:00:02the teams able to deliver maximum everything and now the top 10 is covered by a second where earlier

01:00:09in the first part of of qualifying the whole grid was covered by just over a second oscar piastri

01:00:16currently on provisional pole yet to take a pole position for a grand prix he has qualified on the

01:00:22front row seven times the most for any driver without a pole since the founder of his team

01:00:29bruce mclaren who was racing in the 60s set up this team team that david has raced for in formula

01:00:36one that returned to the top of the world with the championship win last year and they currently have

01:00:42a one-two at the head of the field norris will be desperate to keep piastri in the column of front

01:00:50row and not grand prix pole winners and piastri desperate to get his elbows out within the team

01:00:57and establish a pole position that then gives them so much opportunity in tomorrow's grand prix

01:01:03he had enough in melbourne of following the gearbox of his teammate wasn't happy at being pulled to

01:01:10cold told to hold station through the traffic and well he can right all those wrongs here

01:01:17he was absolutely distraught with how things unfolded in the final stages a strong second

01:01:25wanted the chance to race his teammate all the way to the end the intervention that rain shower changing

01:01:31everything the australian crowd cheering him back into the race somehow he recovered to score points

01:01:38with a great move on the last lap past lewis hamilton can mclaren convert what they have managed to put

01:01:46on the board with run one this is max estappen and the racing balls he's having to take avoiding action

01:01:55isaac hadjar joins the fast lane yeah well racing bulls are very much of course in it to win it but max

01:02:03probably as that sister team will be thinking all right get out of my way he's not far off he could

01:02:10easily improve up to provisional pole here as we've seen before two tenths of a second that is

01:02:17surmountable we are about to set our grid for the second grand prix of the year there is a comparison

01:02:24between max estappen and lewis hamilton the two racing rivals who started on the front row for the sprint

01:02:30race our first of the year earlier on 19 laps and it wasn't the type of performance that the stamp and

01:02:36wanted and he's currently chasing isaac hadjar around something about the way this car's lined up to

01:02:41suggest that might change by the time yeah there you go and isaac hadjar wisely gets out of the way

01:02:46yeah i was beginning to wonder whether max was going to see that as an opportunity given the racing bulls

01:02:51being competitive whether he would take a distant toll any help that you can get can make a difference but in

01:02:57the end well max poses on furrow he's going to have a completely clear track ahead to antonelli who's

01:03:04just about to launch his uh what will be if he gets a clean lap his only time lap of this qualifying

01:03:11session two minute warning on the board for q3 these are the final runs in grand prix qualifying to

01:03:18decide the top 10 for the second round of the year in the formula one world championship we're setting

01:03:23flying laps at shanghai international max estappen closes the drs and sends the car into the seemingly

01:03:30never-ending turn number one he's looking to improve by over two tenths of a second and put the pressure

01:03:36on the two mclarence tidy enough doesn't look spectacular but that's exactly how you want to get

01:03:42through one and two just keep the car rolling small improvement in sector that's enough that's all he

01:03:51needs the driver that missed out by less than two hundredths of a second is three hundredths of a second

01:03:56up on the first effort of oscar piastri through the first third of the racetrack the fast stuff of eight

01:04:03and nine falls away it's all about the 90 degree turns of nine and ten for staff and with a clean

01:04:09lap and he needs it at the moment second sector is not an improvement he's got a tenth of a second to

01:04:15find yeah it didn't look as if he was particularly bad in that middle sector but as you say hasn't

01:04:20improved which he gets that information that feedback every 10 meters his lap delta is being updated on

01:04:27his steering so he'll be watching that as he piles it down towards the big stop at 14 it's like a

01:04:35sledgehammer hitting the back of your head over 5g of deceleration no personal best for lando norris in

01:04:41the middle part of the lap antonelli improves up to seventh position but we're focusing on pole position

01:04:49leaning on the curb giving it everything can verstappen find his way to an improvement the answer's no

01:04:53he stays in third next up isaac hadjar in the racing balls climbs back past antonelli to p7 a great

01:05:02effort from him but what about lando norris he's got one corner to go and he's bailed out of it that

01:05:07middle sector wasn't enough he wasn't improving and now it's over to the ferraris piastri on provisional

01:05:14pole can hamilton snatch it away at the end there's no improvement for him and there's no one out there

01:05:19who's going to be challenging the man from melbourne who's pushing on trying to find something extra he

01:05:25does improve his time piastri on pole for a formula one grand prix the man from melbourne after the

01:05:35misery a week ago has found his way back and it's personal best in sector one and sector two for george

01:05:43russell it's an ordinary middle part of the lap for charles claire who cannot find the balance his

01:05:49teammate has had let's see whether he can find something in the final sector that changes all of

01:05:54that the answer is no the track is not there the drivers cannot find any performance can george russell

01:06:00change that narrative at the end and get ahead of his old teammate that will surely be his aim he comes

01:06:05across the line and he gets to the front row what a magic effort from george russell in the end he only

01:06:11missed out on eight hundredths of a second he split the two mclarens he's got to the front row and george

01:06:19russell finds a brilliant time but piastri's was even better for the first time in formula one it's

01:06:26grand prix pole for oscar piastri and he will lead the line for the second grand prix of the year yeah

01:06:35absolutely fantastic performance from piastri when others were struggling to find any lap time

01:06:41he pulled it together and cemented an even better lap and what about russell's lap as well that front

01:06:47rule is a story of brilliance i think that was the hairpin of my life yeah good stuff that so that is p1

01:06:56p1 well done mate pole position great job very nicely done thank you i've just had a little scream in my

01:07:03helmet so i'll uh not burst your eardrums but thanks everyone a bit of a journey to get there but

01:07:11well done very very good he's taken sprint poles and grand prix victory but this is his first true

01:07:21pole position piastri beats george russell his teammate the world champion and the man who won the sprint race

01:07:27earlier on and he's done it by the margin very nearly the margin he missed out on yesterday eight

01:07:33hundredths of a second and now there have been a hundred and seven drivers in world championship

01:07:41history to take a formula one poll you are looking at the most recent and his name is oscar jack piastri

01:07:49they're all chasing him into turn number one tomorrow yeah sitting in the car savoring the

01:07:55moment and lando well it's been a bit of a roller coaster this weekend doesn't it of emotions

01:08:02and in the end he wasn't able either in spring qualifying or main qualifying to get clean laps

01:08:09showing how difficult these cars are to just get and extract all of the performance and what a cool cat

01:08:18oscar piastri is he goes this is me happy this is me sad spot the difference he might scream into the

01:08:26helmet with joy but he won't let us hear it he'll tell us about it but he plays his cards close to his

01:08:32chest he is a rapid customer and now he will have george russell alongside him eight meters further back

01:08:40the top four separated by just over a tenth and a half under two tenths of a second between verstappen

01:08:48in fourth and a maiden pole position for oscar piastri who beat george russell who had that option

01:08:55yesterday didn't put it together i think he'll be very satisfied with uh that performance at the end

01:09:02no purple sectors but a personal best in all three to climb to the front row yeah oscar may have done

01:09:09the hairpin of his life but we'll hear from george and his own words but he's got to rate that as one

01:09:16of the laps of his life to pull that performance when no one else was finding lap time yeah absolutely

01:09:23excellent piastri russell norris then verstappen hamilton a dominant winner of the sprint race down

01:09:29in fifth sixth place for charles claire seventh for isaac hadjar who out qualifies his experienced

01:09:35teammate yuki sunoda then antoneli sunoda and alban i think oscar piastri said he was two tenths

01:09:43down before the hairpin we'll have to see that once again he was kicking up the dust on the apex on the

01:09:48way through before it's going to be some interesting tale being told to joelian palmer down in park ferme

01:09:59well lando you're back in the top three but i sense you're a little bit disappointed with that

01:10:03one not able to hook up the final lap how was it for you out there um yeah i mean always disappointed if

01:10:09i'm not on pole but uh oscar deserves it today he's done a very good job all weekend so i'm happy for him

01:10:15his first pole in former one so uh it's always cool um yeah just a couple of mistakes again uh

01:10:22kind of been my case this weekend but um the car is feeling a bit better today i've got a lot more

01:10:26comfortable with the car so uh a step in the right direction especially from yesterday where i was

01:10:31struggling a lot and even this morning i was struggling a lot um a much better direction that

01:10:35we're going in so uh yeah not uh not too disappointed and we're seeing so much pace from you so far this

01:10:41season but we are seeing a few laps not completed quite as you would want them a couple of areas

01:10:45here or there you allude to is the car really tricky to drive at the moment is it difficult to

01:10:49get it on the knife edge just absolutely spot on uh i mean yeah i've said that plenty of times so uh

01:10:56it is um it's so quick enough you know we never doubted that it's uh it's the quickest car it can just

01:11:02be a little bit uh feisty at times but um no today's is not so much that today was just uh mistakes from

01:11:07my side and um that's all and in terms of a race you had the sprint earlier didn't go your way at all

01:11:13but can you learn from that can you did you change the car much how are you feeling for tomorrow yeah

01:11:18we we changed quite a lot on the car because uh we were nowhere and um yeah we worked quite hard to

01:11:23make some improvements into quality and hopefully for the race tomorrow so uh we'll see all right good

01:11:29luck for tomorrow lando

01:11:41george what a performance on the front row in 2025 how was that for you it was uh feels incredible

01:11:48to be honest it was one of the hardest quality sessions i've done in a long long time and i was

01:11:53trying all sorts with with my preparation with the tires and nothing seemed to be clicking and

01:11:59did something totally different on that last lap and it just all came alive and that was was awesome

01:12:04and just yeah so so happy to be p2 what was the difference what did you do different oh i mean

01:12:10i was going fast on the outlap slow on the outlap prepping the outlap it was just and the last one was

01:12:15a bit of a roll of the dice and um i had a big moment at turn one but it just all came together and

01:12:20i was really surprised when i crossed the line i knew it was a good lap but to see that i was

01:12:25between the mclarens um yeah just yeah buzzing and looking forward to tomorrow and in terms of race

01:12:31space we saw earlier on you were honing in on the top three didn't quite get there but degradation

01:12:36looks really tough out there how are you feeling over the full distance yeah it's going to be tough

01:12:40i think um the medium tire and the sprint was really difficult obviously i think most drivers will

01:12:44start on that at the front of the field tomorrow and then the hard no one's ran all weekend so

01:12:49nobody knows right now if it's going to be a one or a two stop um we know the mclarens are going to

01:12:54be quick but i'll be doing doing everything to try and uh stay where we are or try and jump ahead of

01:12:59them should be a lot of fun good luck so much thank you

01:13:07oscar piastri grand prix pole position for the first time and what a way to do it two laps that would

01:13:16have had it there for you you just seem hooked up today uh i'm glad it looked like that because

01:13:21it didn't feel like that um i think yeah q3 um yeah just just found a lot of pace you know q1 and q2

01:13:27i was was genuinely struggling um and yeah the car just came alive in q3 and i think i came alive in q3

01:13:35so um no happy with um with what i did at the end um even still the laps were a little bit scruffy but

01:13:41um no very very i mean i'm just pumped to be on pole so uh very happy you've just done the fastest

01:13:48ever lap of this circuit new asphalt loads of grip obviously a car that's working well how much of a

01:13:54buzz is it to drive at these speeds um yeah it's it's a lot of fun i think with the the new surface

01:13:59it's extremely grippy um which for for us you know it's it's the best feeling in the world so um the only

01:14:07thing that comes with that is when you lose grip it bites uh that you i think you've probably seen

01:14:11a lot of snaps a lot of moments this weekend and um with with the surface we've got it's

01:14:16it's pretty tricky but um when you hook it up it it feels pretty mega so um i'll take the fastest lap

01:14:22of shanghai big smiles from you but there is still a race to do tomorrow still a grand prix win to to

01:14:28add to this pole position and you had the dress rehearsal earlier on car looked good but ferrari

01:14:33looked exceptionally strong as well how are you feeling obviously a bit of clear air for you

01:14:37hopefully at the start of the race yeah i mean i think that is hopefully going to be a help um i

01:14:42was going to make sure i keep that clean air but um i was pretty happy after the sprint i think um we

01:14:47did the most that we could have i was pretty happy with you know i would have been happier with one spot

01:14:52higher but how the the race turned out i you know couldn't have asked for much more um so i feel like

01:14:57we learned a lot this morning and looking forward to trying to put that into use tomorrow all right well

01:15:02congratulations oscar good luck for the race tomorrow well done

01:15:13thank you to joelian for making his way and it's quite a long way i'll be honest with you

01:15:16from the commentary box to park ferme to ask those questions of our new top three things change so

01:15:24quickly in formula one in 2025 from a front row that comprised of hamilton and verstappen to a front row of

01:15:32piastri and russell and lando norris a mistake on that final lap as well the same thing again and

01:15:39it's oscar piastri's side of the garage they're hugging each other outside of my commentary box

01:15:44window the 107th driver to take a world championship pole position and it's going to be a first ever

01:15:51pirelli pole position trophy for oscar piastri who was so upset with how things turned out

01:15:58one week ago and has turned the page in the best way possible russell with a great lap when it counted

01:16:08sneaking up and moving past verstappen norris and getting his way onto the front row for the first

01:16:17uh time this campaign and for a 50th time in his career but it's a first pole position for oscar piastri that

01:16:27is the headline on what has been a really interesting day ferrari on top in the sprint over 19 laps

01:16:35this was lando norris again heading to the hairpin again pushing on on the final lap

01:16:43and again heading wide getting on the curb losing time and in a few meters after this moment we joined

01:16:51him on board bailing out he knew no chance to improve beaten to formula one pole position in china by a

01:16:58tenth and a half this was yuki sunoda rotating the car it's going to be into turn 13 and any snap any

01:17:06moment oh that's a massive moment i was expecting an oversteer snap instead instead yuki scrubbing

01:17:13wide heading off now that's an unusual one we have heard from drivers that the tire temperature if it

01:17:22goes through the roof if you cannot control the temperature you will skate off at high speed looks

01:17:27inexplicable but something the drivers have been aware of the need to balance pushing around this lap

01:17:35with keeping the tire in the window absolutely vital and it's hajar who is in seventh sunoda who is in

01:17:43ninth let's go back to the front because we have a new pole position holder in formula one his name is

01:17:48oscar piastri for the first time in the grand prix qualifying hour he is on top he'll be joined on

01:17:54the front row by george russell it's a third place for lando norris who again for the second qualifying

01:18:00session in a row here in shanghai deep into the turn 14 hairpin max verstappen in fourth for red bull

01:18:07lewis houghton the lead ferrari ahead of charles claire fifth and sixth and then an amazing performance

01:18:13one week on from the disappointment from isaac hajar he's ahead of antonelli his teammate yuki sunoda

01:18:18and the 10th place driver alex alba esteban ocon is in 11th and then it's nico holkenberg in 12th

01:18:26fernando alonso is 13th ahead of his teammate lance stroll then it's carlos sainz who is out in q2

01:18:33gasly beharman duen fortleto and liam lawson were out in q1 as we lose the five slowest drivers in those

01:18:44sessions australia will be delighted to know for the first time since daniel ricardo in mexico

01:18:52they have a driver starting the grand prix from the front of the field oscar piastri

01:18:57ticks that box he'll want the win when formula one returns

01:19:11the first time that we can see you in the middle of the field as a of the field so you can see you

01:19:27can see you can see you

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