00:01The track evolution, the grip at this point of the weekend, it's going to be superb.
00:06Everyone is finding an improvement, so no mistakes possible.
00:10Talk of an improvement, Valtteri Bottas has gone from the drop zone to fastest in the field.
00:16And the track really is ramping up now.
00:18If you don't achieve your best lap time at this moment, you could be out.
00:22As Tsunoda tries to get through and he gets up to 11th.
00:26What a lap, Valtteri Bottas.
00:28The driver, who hasn't got a point all year, is currently top of the pile.
00:31That's going to be in the way.
00:33George Russell finds himself trying to get out of the way of Liam Lawson,
00:37who goes up to 11th ahead of his teammate, but Russell could be in trouble there.
00:41And Gasly is trying to complete the lap.
00:43The car squirming all over the road was his teammate.
00:46This is Gasly, fourth fastest for Alpine.
00:50And this now is the checkered flag flying with Albon, the driver at risk.
00:54He's not the only one.
00:55George Russell is there as well, as Charles Leclerc goes fastest.
00:59Joe Guan Yu in 16th.
01:00He is done. He is out.
01:02So is Colopinto.
01:03You've got Duan there.
01:04You've got Alonso there.
01:06A great attacking lap from Fernando Alonso to get to 15th.
01:09What can Hamilton do across the line?
01:10We will see in a few moments, because Russell has gone into ninth position.
01:14But what about Lewis Hamilton with this significant emotional moment leaving the team?
01:18And he comes across the line and Hamilton can't find the time.
01:21The man saying goodbye to Mercedes is out in Q1.
01:28Okay, on board with Kevin Magnussen, who made it through.
01:31Ah, he tries to get out of the way and sends the bollard onto the racing line.
01:35There you go.
01:36So there's that bollard.
01:38Well, that is going to have a huge detrimental effect to the balance and performance of the car.
01:53Yeah, I was trying to get out of the way of Lawson and I went as wide as I could
01:56without
01:56going off the track.
01:57Otherwise, I got my lap deleted.
01:59No further investigation for Russell and Lawson.
02:03Albon, Joe, Lewis Hamilton, Franco Colopinto and Jack Doohan are the drivers to fall at the first hurdle.
02:13Gasly trying to get into the top ten.
02:15He's used to that by now and he goes into third.
02:17That's a major moment for the Alpine team, trying to mark off the Haas team in the battle
02:22to finish sixth in the Constructors' Championship.
02:25George Russell is only sixth.
02:26Mercedes just do not have the overall pace.
02:28But Sergio Perez moves into seventh.
02:31It's Tsunoda Sainz and the driver at risk is Liam Lawson at the moment to tenth position.
02:35Goes Lance Stroll.
02:36Fernando Alonso will be next over the line.
02:39He's improving as well.
02:40This is going to be a personal best lap for the two-time world champion, but is it enough
02:44to get through sixth position for Alonso?
02:48Then Russell, then Perez, then Tsunoda, then Sainz is now the driver at risk.
02:53Carlos Sainz is also on a personal best at this stage.
02:56He's going to need to be because Charles Leclerc comes over the line and goes fastest of anyone
03:00so far.
03:01And now Sainz is in the drop zone, one lock-up away from the exit.
03:05Liam Lawson of New Zealand racing for RB, trying to demote his teammate.
03:10As Sainz goes into second place, Tsunoda's into the drop zone.
03:14Tsunoda's also improving.
03:15They're finding time out there.
03:17Magnussen is the only driver who is definitely out at this stage.
03:21Bottas needs a mighty final sector if he's to break the top ten.
03:25That's a time deleted for Charles Leclerc.
03:27A time deleted for Charles Leclerc.
03:29He's gone over track limits at turn one and he is now out to change the game entirely.
03:34Lawson can't displace his teammate and it's Yuki Tsunoda on the brink.
03:39Valtteri Bottas needs one of his best ever final sectors.
03:43The man leaving Formula One at the end of this weekend needs something special.
03:46He's currently in 15th, Tsunoda's the driver of risk, he got it!
03:51He got it at the end!
03:52What an incredible amount of lap time Valtteri Bottas found at the very last!
03:58Good luck, good luck!
04:01That's as fast as she goes!
04:04Eliminated drivers in Q2.
04:05Yuki Tsunoda, Liam Lawson, Lance Stroll, Charles Leclerc and Kevin Magnussen.
04:12Verstappen is being compared to a Haas.
04:14He was behind a Haas in the Qatar sprint.
04:17Can he get ahead now?
04:18Oh, he's dropped it out of the final corner!
04:20And he's still going quickest!
04:23How did he do that?
04:25He kept his foot in!
04:26Can you believe that?
04:27As we were stepping back in the commentary box,
04:30imagining that was at least a spin.
04:33I thought he was heading to the wall!
04:36In the battle for Pol, who's at the head of the field after run number one,
04:40second place for Piastri.
04:41He's missed out by four hundredths of a second.
04:44And now Lando Norris trying to beat his teammate,
04:47trying to beat his great rival for this title earlier in the season, Max Verstappen.
04:51It's Verstappen at the front for the moment.
04:54Norris gets close, but misses out.
04:57And if you thought four hundredths was tight,
04:59four thousandths was the difference between Verstappen and Norris.
05:04And now Norris, six hundredths up on Max Verstappen through sector number one.
05:10The pressure is being put.
05:12Hülkenberg goes to pole!
05:14Absolutely extraordinary!
05:17Nico Hülkenberg in the Haas, in a dry session,
05:20with everyone needing to respond, has provisional pole position.
05:24Words I never thought I'd hear you say,
05:28especially at this stage of a qualifying session.
05:31And let's see whether the McLarens can come back.
05:34Piastri over the line.
05:35He takes it away by eight hundredths of a second.
05:37Norris is improving.
05:38And what can Verstappen do?
05:40He's in the hunt as well.
05:42Everyone will get a chance to respond behind the wheel.
05:45Piastri gets ahead of Hülkenberg,
05:47who's looking for his best starting position of the year.
05:49Anything in the top five does that.
05:52Gasly couldn't go with him.
05:53Alonso goes to sixth place.
05:55Sainz will hope to be in the mix.
05:57Working the wheel through the sixteenth and final corner of the racetrack.
06:00He goes to second place.
06:02It's Piastri, Sainz and Hülkenberg.
06:03The top three separated by eight hundredths of a second.
06:06At least they were.
06:07That's the lap time Lando Norris was looking for.
06:10It's provisional pole.
06:11And Verstappen's not on a good lap, relatively speaking.
06:14Let's see if he can pull a mighty final sector.
06:17No improvement sector one or sector two.
06:20Russell is the next car over the line.
06:22He's into seventh place.
06:23Verstappen looking for a less dramatic exit to turn 16 this time.
06:28Here he is.
06:29Checkered flag waving.
06:30Can he take it away?
06:31He can't.
06:32And it's a McLaren front row lockout.
06:35Max Verstappen does not improve his time.
06:37He's out qualified by Nico Hülkenberg who gets his best starting position of the year.
06:43But it's McLaren seeking the first constructors title since 1998.
06:47Who lock out the front row.
06:50And Lando Norris has an eighth pole position of the season.
06:54He's celebrating once again in Formula One qualifying.
06:58The last qualifying hour of the year.
07:01Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Carlos Sainz will fill the top three places on the grid.
07:07He's so quiet.
07:08He's so quiet.
07:09Where's 돈 yesterday at Hudson?
07:09imagination, angel!
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