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00:23ДИНАМИЧНАЯ МУЗЫКА
00:45Evening all, hello and welcome to the qualifying notebook from the 2026.
00:51It's Kimi Antonelli's first three Grand Prix polls in a row notebook.
00:58Just look at this, this is fantastic chaos.
01:00We've got the man mounting the security, Kimi keeping,
01:04and then everybody just coming in and getting their selfies with Kimi.
01:07This is good.
01:08And look at the grin on his face.
01:11Drive to Survive, of course, are here with a 10-foot boom pole.
01:14Pete, above you.
01:15There you go.
01:16Always, then, you're never alone, are you, without a 10-foot boom pole in Formula One these days.
01:21Someone's always listening.
01:23There's nothing sacred, I ask you.
01:25Anyway, it looks like Kimi's not actually saying that much, apart from to Jolion Palmer.
01:31And what did you say to him?
01:33So, well done.
01:35I could have predicted.
01:36I'll get that on Drive to Survive.
01:38Are you trying to get on Drive to Survive, JP?
01:40That's why I'm coming in with a big statement, and then I'm getting collared by you.
01:42So, what's more important, Drive to Survive on Ted's Notebook?
01:47There's no only one answer to that.
01:48This is a big profile, Scott.
01:49I know your game.
01:50That might make it.
01:51That might make it on Drive to Survive.
01:54Well done, JP.
01:57No, but it is well done, isn't it?
01:58Oh, he's gone.
01:59He's gone, hasn't he?
02:00He's gone upstairs.
02:01He's gone up to Paddock Club.
02:02So, this is what they have to do.
02:04Maybe we can see them on the balcony.
02:05Oh, sorry, sir.
02:07Maybe that's what they have to do, such as the demands of...
02:11Where's it gone, Pete?
02:13Such are the demands of what happens after qualifying that the guys get out of the car.
02:20They're buzzing with adrenaline.
02:22They have to go and do adrenaline-sapping interviews with the likes of me.
02:26Well, I don't do the pen.
02:27The likes of Rachel and everybody else.
02:30Then they have to do...
02:31Well, they don't have to, but they're very kind to do some analysis of their laps on the Skypad,
02:36which Kimi has just done with Karun, which you can see in our pre-race coverage tomorrow evening.
02:437 p.m., everybody.
02:44And then they go up to Paddock Club, wave to everybody.
02:46And finally, they might have a chance to go back to the garage, see their engineer, Peter Bonington in this
02:50case,
02:51sit down and say, well, we found something, didn't we?
02:54We found something today.
02:56Because what a funny day it was.
02:58Oh, sorry, madam.
02:59What a funny day it was for Kimi Antonelli.
03:01You know, you go well in the sprint race, but then have a bit of a boo-boo,
03:05a bad start in the sprint race, not his fault,
03:07but then have a bit of a boo-boo with track limits,
03:09and then go and get yourself a five-second time penalty that drops you two places.
03:14It means that Max Verstappen and George Russell finish ahead of you in the sprint race if you're Kimi Antonelli.
03:21Reset.
03:21Turn that around.
03:22Work with your engineers.
03:23Figure out what went wrong.
03:25And then go back and wham!
03:27It's the speed that he's got.
03:29He's figured out how to do it.
03:31Maybe the wind conditions, maybe the track conditions, maybe the hotter conditions
03:36advantaged Mercedes, although they hadn't earlier in the weekend,
03:38and disadvantaged everybody else.
03:40But he found his mojo and then stuck it on poles.
03:44So, incredibly, three Grand Prix poles in a row, if you can remember back that far.
03:48Let's go through Mercedes' story.
03:51Safely into Q2, of course, both of them.
03:53Kimi Antonelli was actually P2 in Q2.
03:55George Russell was P6.
03:56But a great lap from Kimi, a 27-7 in Q3 on the first run.
04:02And given that he actually messed up his second attempt at Turn 1 at the right of the beginning
04:08of his final attempt in Q3, that left the door open for Max Verstappen to strike.
04:15So, nervous moments for the Italian youngster, the world championship leader.
04:20As Max could have said, ah, give me an opportunity like that, Kimi.
04:24Mess up your last run in Q3 on your fresh tyres.
04:27Give me a chance.
04:29I don't need asking twice.
04:30I'll be like a rat up a drainpipe.
04:32But in the end, Max did improve, but only enough up to share the front row with Kimi Antonelli.
04:38And he held on.
04:39The first lap was good enough.
04:41Let's talk about George Russell.
04:43And, well, I've said it already today.
04:45I'll probably say it tomorrow, but we'll see what happens.
04:47Bogey track for car number 63.
04:51And he just doesn't like the way you don't have much grip.
04:55And it's very slippery out there.
04:56And Kimi Antonelli, with his natural verve, if you want to call it that, can sort of slide the car
05:00on all four wheels and get it to go around here very quickly.
05:05Whereas George tends to be more of a precise driver.
05:07That's the reason he said.
05:09And the reason he doesn't go quite as fast around here.
05:12But at P5, when Kimi has pole, that's a problem for George Russell.
05:17George really needed for his championship, if you're George Russell, to come here to dominate the weekend, to win the
05:24sprint race,
05:25to get 25 points in the Grand Prix, and then reassert himself over Kimi Antonelli.
05:31He hasn't got that.
05:32He hasn't got anywhere close.
05:33So worrying times early on in the season for George Russell.
05:38And, listen, you know, I know it's a very long season, but P5 when Kimi is P1, that's a problem
05:46for George.
05:47Right.
05:48Should we do McLaren?
05:49And then I'm sort of half fancying an early break, Pete, because we're going to go and relocate into...
05:56I mean, it's very busy around here, obviously.
05:58There's lots going on.
05:59We've had a band here.
06:01They're not here at the moment.
06:03We've got a Roland 700 EX, and we've got all the old bongos on here.
06:09Very nice bongo set up here, Pete.
06:11Thank you.
06:13Thank you.
06:15Thank you.
06:20Take that, Kid Creole.
06:22It's the only bongo player I can think of.
06:25It's probably an 80s reference there, someone.
06:28Right.
06:29Ah, hello.
06:30Are you all right?
06:30Someone noticing me playing the bongos there in a very bad way.
06:35Who's a famous bongo player?
06:40I can't think.
06:41Anyway.
06:41Right.
06:42Let's do McLaren.
06:45And I know it's the coconuts with Kid Creole, wasn't it?
06:48I've got the wrong percussion.
06:50Anyway.
06:51Right.
06:51Let's do McLaren, shall we?
06:54Lando Norris 4th.
06:56His old race number.
06:57Oscar Piastri 7th.
06:58A nervous Q1 for Oscar Piastri.
07:01Scraped through on a used tyre by two-tenths of a second.
07:04Lando P4.
07:05But then we turned out, we found out, that Oscar had a power unit issue in Q1.
07:10Then Lando had a problem with the boost system, the boost button, which they traced in the software and fixed
07:17in Q2.
07:18But the real answer as to why McLaren can go from winning the sprint race with a 1-2 and
07:24Lando Norris being on pole for the sprint race in qualifying on Friday
07:27to suddenly being 4th and 7th is that that was kind of McLaren's limit.
07:32They didn't change the car much and everybody else improved.
07:35Add to that those little glitches on the boost button and on the power unit for both drivers.
07:42Add to that the weather conditions changing.
07:45And, you know, that meant that they are back down to earth with a bit of a bump.
07:50Lando said this is more or less where we should have been for a start.
07:53It's just that everybody had problems in sprint qualifying.
07:55But we didn't.
07:57But, you know, given how the clean air and getting a good start and Lando and Oscar controlling the sprint
08:04race earlier today was so crucial,
08:06for them to do that for 4th and 7th might be a very hard task tomorrow.
08:11So we will see how that goes.
08:15What did McLaren do in the four weeks to improve their position so much, notwithstanding their 4th and 7th on
08:23the grid?
08:23Well, they combed through the data and went through the harvesting and deploying strategies.
08:30Now, of course, not being the works Mercedes team, McLaren didn't have quite the depth of knowledge that Mercedes had
08:36coming into the season
08:37as to when to deploy around the lap and then when to actually when to harvest, when to recharge your
08:44battery.
08:45And then when the best points are around these laps to actually press the button and use the quick boost
08:51of electric power
08:52around various corners.
08:54Mercedes knew that.
08:55That's why they were leading so far in the advance.
08:58But the four weeks allowed McLaren to sit down, go through the data, see what Mercedes were doing.
09:03And they would have had that data on GPS, it's all freely available to everybody, and figure out what they
09:10needed to do.
09:11And that's what they did.
09:12And, of course, they put the burners on their aerodynamic development and their production.
09:20And the new floor, things like the new floor, that meant that they were suddenly in business and back in
09:27business.
09:28If you're talking about back in business, though, there is no one more back in business than Max Verstappen and
09:34Red Bull Racing.
09:34So, welcome back, Max.
09:37And he could have got pole with the opportunity that Kimi Antonelli gave to him by making a mistake on
09:44his last attempt.
09:45He was very close in the end.
09:47It was only a tenth.
09:48But, yeah, he was on it all throughout all of qualifying.
09:51He was P3 in Q1 when Isaac Hadja was P5.
09:55Max was P1 in Q2, so that was a real warning shot to everybody.
09:59And then P1 became P3 initially in the first runs in Q3, but he improved to P2.
10:07So he shares the front row with the next big thing in Formula 1, supposedly, Kimi Antonelli.
10:14He is going to come back out of the same door he came out of.
10:17So that's kind of why I'm hanging around Antonelli for more chaos, Pete, if you want to go and loiter
10:22between there and Red Bull.
10:24But if you look at the back of the Red Bull garage, and you look at all the success they've
10:28had with those laurel reeds, you know, Max is back.
10:32Red Bull are back.
10:33To a certain extent, we'll see what happens in the Grand Prix.
10:35Big question for me, does this mean Max likes these cars and likes these rules?
10:40Now, I would say no, because he said, he was quite clear about it when he was giving his frank
10:46assessment of the new rules and the more reliance on energy harvesting and battery overtaking.
10:57He said, look, even if I was winning races, this wouldn't mean that I like it.
11:01So I think we have to say that he would still feel that now that he's potentially in a position
11:07to win races, he might not still like it.
11:10But that certainly wasn't something that was asked to him.
11:14But I think that we have to assume that he still holds his personal opinions about the regulations, notwithstanding the
11:21fact that we changed the regulations.
11:23We've had a little, oh, look, there's GP just behind you, Pete.
11:27Notwithstanding that we've changed the regulations, we've had a little tickle, as he calls it, and there is less of
11:34the having your lap compromised by having to charge the battery than in the previous races.
11:40You are looking at here on the right-hand side, not Greg on the left, unless something really interesting has
11:46happened, McLaren's chief racing officer from 2028 onwards.
11:52He will be wearing the papaya, well, I don't know whether McLaren will still be wearing, having papaya shirts in
11:582028, so far away.
12:00But he will be changing shirts, definitely the end of 2007.
12:04Yes, that is next year, but maybe before that, if Red Bull can find a replacement.
12:10And how do you replace the irreplaceable?
12:14Who do you replace GP with?
12:16And that is a very, very big question.
12:18It's a personal relationship.
12:19I asked Max about this earlier in the weekend.
12:22What is it that's so valuable?
12:24Oh, Pete, just imagine if you were by McLaren at this point, and you could get a shot of GP
12:29passing McLaren.
12:29That would be a go, yay, good old Pete.
12:32There we go.
12:33There's a shot for the, for the.
12:38It's like a news piece coming together.
12:42GP Lambiazzi with his new team, McLaren.
12:45There you go, did you get it?
12:46Good, good lad.
12:48I mean, yeah, to try to get another engineer that has the same natural affinity with their driver, the strength
12:56of which that Max has with GP, might be a hard ask, but hey, they can do it, and Max
12:59is up for finding an engineer who can take GP's place.
13:03Here you go, you're rewarded with where Kimi goes next, and finally he goes to see his engineer, and yeah,
13:11that's good.
13:11Finally, you can go into the garage, see the engineers, find out what's going on, get the door shut on
13:16your face, and we can move on.
13:18Good.
13:18All right, we've done 12 minutes or so, shall we just do Ferrari?
13:23Come on, yeah, let's do a Ferrari.
13:24Well, I'll tell you what happened with Max Verstappen.
13:25He almost got pole.
13:27The light at the end of the tunnel, he says, the Max Arena wing is an interesting story.
13:32It turns out that when everyone was going crazy when Ferrari had done the Mac Arena wing, somebody or lots
13:37of people within Red Bull and Milton Keynes had said,
13:39ha, just you wait until you see what we've got in development.
13:43It turns out they had one that had an even bigger opening and allowing more air through, dumping more drag,
13:49being more effective than the Mac Arena wing.
13:52And they must have been laughing into their computer screens in Milton Keynes when Ferrari weren't even able to race
13:58it for the first two races of the year, their Mac Arena wing.
14:01But interestingly, Laura McKee's saying, look, with other priorities of having to get the car better, the Red Bull better,
14:08we had to put our Max Arena wing on the back burner,
14:11and only now could we actually put it into production and get it to a race.
14:14So well done, whoever thought of that.
14:16It seems like some clever people, both in Ferrari and in Red Bull, thought of it at the same time
14:21over the winter and thought,
14:22do you know what?
14:23Listen, there's no restriction in the rules as to how far this rear wing flap can open.
14:29So let's make it open like crazy in a kind of rotating way, which is what they have done.
14:34Quickly on Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton sixth, Charles Leclerc third, not bad, maybe not as great as they'd hoped.
14:40But P3 for Charles Leclerc, again, upgrades are working, but the car, the Ferrari is not loving the hotter conditions.
14:46Lewis Hamilton overheated his rear tires again over one lap, said Fred Vasseur, and may have to manage them in
14:53the rain, in the race.
14:54But it will depend if the rain comes or not.
14:58Right.
14:59I don't know if you're looking at the back of the garage.
15:01You probably shouldn't.
15:01I don't know what's going on in there.
15:03Probably you should be.
15:03You're a naughty boy.
15:04You shouldn't be looking.
15:05We've done lots of in the sort of undercroft.
15:08So just to explain what happens.
15:09This is, if you normally sort of come out of a Miami Dolphins NFL game and you come out of
15:14the stadium here,
15:15it is a bit weird that you walk straight in to the garages of the Grand Prix.
15:21But, you know, they are permanent and that's what happens.
15:23So, for the next bit, we will walk inside, shall we, the Hard Rock Stadium and, well, show you what
15:31the paddock looks like,
15:31if you haven't already seen it, from the inside where all the motorhomes and the, yeah, the really important people
15:39are.
15:39Right.
15:40More Notebook in a bit.
15:52All right.
15:53If that doesn't make a high, keep you there too long.
15:59And, okay, all right.
16:05Am I live now?
16:07That was strange.
16:08I could hear myself, I could hear myself pre-recorded some time ago and who knows what I said back
16:14then.
16:15So, good.
16:17I'll check I'm live now.
16:18All right, everyone in the sound department?
16:20Good.
16:20That was worrying, wasn't it, Pete?
16:22Good.
16:23Always assume all microphones are live.
16:25Do we need to do the shadow shot again?
16:27I think we're, I think we're probably okay.
16:30Right.
16:30Right.
16:31Let's carry on, shall we, with Williams.
16:33And P14, Carlos Sainz.
16:36And P16, Alex Albon.
16:39And Sainz with a 29.5 in Q1.
16:43A P9, better.
16:45Williams have found six-tenths from yesterday.
16:48Sainz in between the two Haas drivers with Alex Albon just behind.
16:52There is James Matthews, one of the bosses here at Williams.
16:55And, I mean, better, but still 14th and 16th.
16:59So, they have, you know, progress of a sort, I think, where the Haas are having a difficult weekend.
17:05But there is one positive thing about Williams.
17:09They poached someone important from Mercedes.
17:11They poached a top aerodynamicist, Claire Simpson, who is joining Williams as the head of aero development.
17:18In fact, I think she's already joined the team.
17:21This is her first weekend working in the UK.
17:26So, yeah, they're adding to their team as they look to improve here at Williams.
17:32Right.
17:32Let's do Racing Bulls, which is all the way over there in the corner, Pete.
17:36And we'll put a wide angle on this, and you can just see people do some sort of slow pan
17:41around the stadium because it is absolutely majestic.
17:46I mean, maybe not the biggest stadium you've seen.
17:48When we shot with Franco Colapinto, we went to a River Plate game in the Monumental in Buenos Aires, and
17:55that's 85,000.
17:57I don't believe this is 85,000 just from the look of it and from memory.
18:00I think this is about 65, 65 to 70.
18:03Does that sound about right to you, Pete?
18:04So, it's sort of a bit smaller than Old Trafford, I think you could put it that way, the hard
18:11rock stadium here.
18:12Right.
18:13Racing Bulls and – sorry, say that again.
18:19So, Racing Bulls, Alvid Lindblad and Liam Lawson, P12, better from Liam, into Q2,
18:28and quicker than both Haas and the Williams, but couldn't get into Q3.
18:34But much better day for Liam Lawson.
18:37I don't think he's in there.
18:38He must be in a briefing by now.
18:40But, yeah, got done by Niko Hulkenberg by three hundredths of a second.
18:45Alvid Lindblad, 17th on the grid with a fixed clutch after it not working the other day.
18:51And he is 17th.
18:55He scraped – he didn't manage to scrape out of Q1, just lost out by a couple of tenths of
19:01a second.
19:02But he is P17.
19:03Let's do Aston Martin quickly, just over here, Pete, on the left-hand side.
19:0618th for Fernando Alonso, 19th for Lance Stroll.
19:11And today, unlike sprint qualifying, they did representative laps.
19:14And because of that, they were ahead of Cadillac again.
19:17So it looks like the early showing that he had – that Aston Martin had gone ahead of – fallen
19:25behind, rather, Cadillac.
19:27It seems like it's not the case now that they actually did representative laps.
19:31I mean, we knew they didn't do representative laps in sprint qualifying.
19:34But when they do, they are ahead of Cadillac.
19:38Fernando Alonso, nine-tenths behind Arvid Lindblad.
19:41And Lance Stroll, a tenth further back from there.
19:45There is the new papa, as he's talked about openly now, the birth of his son, Leonard, Leonard Alonso.
19:54I don't know whether that will be short to Leo or Leonardo or Leonardo or whatever.
19:58But to Fernando and to Melissa, his partner, with the birth of their son.
20:05Lovely news.
20:06Right.
20:06We cross the paddock to the Haas team.
20:09And Ocon, 15th.
20:11And Oli Behrman, 13th.
20:13So, well done, Oli Behrman.
20:14The slightly difficult weekend continues for Haas.
20:16But Oli Behrman out-qualifies Esteban Ocon again.
20:19It's only two-tenths, but at least Esteban Ocon got out of Q1.
20:24So, that is an improvement from sprint qualifying when he hadn't managed to do it before.
20:29There is Oli Behrman.
20:30Ah, with a very interesting man.
20:32Jock Clear.
20:33Actually, Jock.
20:35Alex Zanardi.
20:36Oh, I've got a shock off this.
20:37Can you just come over?
20:38Sorry, because from memory, you worked with Alex at Tello, by the way.
20:44You worked with Alex at Lotus, didn't you?
20:46You'd left Williams by the time he went there.
20:48Give us a story.
20:49Come on.
20:50Give us some.
20:50We've all been going around.
20:51I've got the pineapple on my phone.
20:53Do you remember the pineapple on his helmet?
20:54I remember the pineapple.
20:55The pineapple.
20:56And, I mean, what?
20:58A man who transcended motorsport.
21:00But, give us a recollection, if you can.
21:02Yeah, I mean, I think the good thing is that you and I are smiling about it, because that's
21:05actually what you feel when you think of Alex.
21:08I worked with him in 94.
21:10I engineered Johnny, and then Johnny was nicked by Flavio for the last three races.
21:14Alex was in the other car, and I swapped engineer over to Alex, and I did Alex for three
21:18races.
21:19What a lovely, lovely gentleman, and absolutely inspirational.
21:24You know, what he did in athletics and in a racing car is fantastic.
21:28But, as a human being, oh, my God, he was such a nice guy.
21:33And, you know, that's lived with me ever since.
21:36You know, I've got some very nice guys, not necessarily drivers, throughout the paddock.
21:40But, yeah, that's what sticks with me.
21:42I mean, he was just such a gentleman.
21:44And, on top of it, my God, you know, what he achieved and what, you know, how he recovered
21:52from the challenges he had, you know, and not the obvious ones, you know, losing his
21:57legs, but in racing as well.
21:59You know, he was really, really up against it in those Williams years.
22:03You know, that was, you know, your career's over.
22:06And he turned it round.
22:07And, you know, when he won championships over in America and won hearts all over the world.
22:13And, yeah, a real, a real tragic loss of a great, great guy.
22:17And, yeah, thoughts to, I think, Daniela, his wife, and the family.
22:21But, yeah, motorsport enjoyed a really, really great guy in Alex Zanardi, for sure.
22:28And I just am honoured to have, you know, been on the end of his radio for three races.
22:32It was brilliant.
22:33And, yeah, great, great memories.
22:36Sad day, but, yeah.
22:38To remember the man.
22:39To remember the man, absolutely.
22:40Yeah, yeah.
22:41And as I say, you know, we all looked, you know, us in racing then looked at what he did
22:46in athletics on the TV.
22:48And you're like, my God, you know, that is, you know, to be at this sort of level in motor
22:54racing is one thing.
22:55But then to just transcend that to another sport and be, you know, the best in the world at what
23:02he was doing over there as well.
23:04Just inspirational.
23:05And, yeah, just a really nice human being as well.
23:08You know, when you'd sit and have dinner with him, he's just a lovely, lovely guy.
23:11I'm sure you've talked to Johnny.
23:13They had a great relationship.
23:14And, you know, Johnny enjoyed his company all through that year.
23:17Brilliant, brilliant guy.
23:18And so sad.
23:20Okay, listen.
23:21Cheers.
23:21Jock, thank you very much.
23:22And as you say, all love to and commiserations to Alex Zanardi's family.
23:29Right.
23:30We've got another three teams to do.
23:32So might have to squeeze it in as quick as I can.
23:35But let's do Audi first.
23:36And Nico Hülkenberg, 11th.
23:39Gabriel Bortoletto was 22nd.
23:41Great job by the team to get Nico Hülkenberg out.
23:44He was P12 in Q1 and then P11 in Q2.
23:48Beat Liam Lawson by 600th of a second.
23:50It's a great recovery from that.
23:52But a strange thing with Gabriel Bortoletto.
23:53They had to understand what was up with the engine air intake,
23:56which had meant that he was disqualified from the sprint race by exceeding it,
24:01exceeding the engine air intake pressure.
24:03Once they had, they could put the engine back on his car,
24:05which wasn't there for the start of qualifying,
24:07amazingly bolt it on and get him out for one lap.
24:09It didn't do much because he was only 22nd and a second or two off the pace.
24:16Alpine on the other side, Pete, just at the end on this side.
24:18Well done, Gasly P10, great performance from Franco Colopinto P8, both into Q3.
24:25Again, Franco ahead of Gasly in Q2 by a tenth and two tenths after the first runs in Q3.
24:31Ended up one tenth ahead, but two places with Isaac Hadjar in between.
24:37So well done.
24:38Watch out for a lovely piece that we've done with Franco Colopinto,
24:41following him around his hometown in a big show run he did in Buenos Aires last week.
24:46in the race show tomorrow and Cadillac finally Valtteri Bottas P20 and Sergio Perez 21
24:52as they continue to try and manage the temperatures which are slowing them down a little bit on their car.
24:58Right, that's it for us.
24:59Thanks very much for watching.
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25:13Wet or dry, can't wait for it.
25:13Wet or dry, can't wait for it.
25:13Wet or dry, can't wait for it.
25:14Wet or dry, can't wait for it.
25:15Wet or dry, can't wait for it.
25:15Wet or dry, can't wait for it.
25:15Продолжение следует...
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