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00:44Welcome along everyone from Shanghai where it's spring weekend
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00:59Welcome to Miami yo
01:00Let's bring the heat
01:12Good up mate
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01:14Let's do it all over again
01:16Welcome along ladies and gentlemen to Montreal
01:25It's only the fifth race weekend but already the third sprint we're in the Il Notre Dame just outside of
01:32Montreal in the middle of the St. Lawrence River and half an hour away from qualifying for that third sprint
01:39of 2026 we talk about momentum so often in sport it's an important word and one man right now has
01:48got it.
01:48The teenager Kimi Antonelli off the back of three wins he was quickest in the opening practice session Jamie Chadwick
01:55and Bernie Collins alongside me Bernie yeah we talked to Jamie and Martin about this earlier but what a start
02:00to the season and what a change actually from 2025 after his rookie efforts.
02:05Yeah you know I think that in 2025 there was a lot of question marks is he too young has
02:09Toto put too much behind him there was a lot of they'd obviously done a lot of work the year
02:14before getting a lot of practice sessions in an older car so they've really put a lot to get Kimi
02:21to where he is and I think last year's season has really allowed him to start this season very very
02:27strongly now what we need to remember is last year he had a dip sort of mid-season around the
02:31Europeans so has he done enough to correct the issues that he had to do it.
02:36We've got to wait and see but I don't think any of us expected to come out so strongly at
02:41the beginning of this season you know everyone had favoured Mercedes everyone put that behind George and Kimi's really showing
02:48us that you know Toto's trust was not unfounded particularly George I don't suspect he was expecting this too.
02:55We talked to James Vowles who was very instrumental obviously he's the team principal at Williams now following that practice
03:00session he was instrumental in bringing George Russell through wasn't there when Kimi was coming through but still knew him
03:08from the junior formula and he dominated there and I just wonder how much he's taking from every session that
03:14he gets ahead of his team mate.
03:16He must the confidence just must build incrementally.
03:19That's it I think every session every race win every weekend he gets through without any mistakes I think everyone
03:24keeps expecting him to make mistakes now and he doesn't seem to be and I think just that confidence straight
03:29away correlate or straight away gives in performance so he's in a great place in that sense.
03:34I think it's interesting what James was saying earlier about you know they saw he was a generational talent we
03:39heard that last year but you don't know it until you put them in F1 and you put them in
03:42the deep end and he was fast tracked into this position last year so now it's actually where he can
03:47really prove what he's worth and so far so good it's still a long season ahead and I think that's
03:52the bit that I'm sure he's very realistic on but yeah out the block sees me fly.
03:55Yeah on the evidence of what we saw in that practice session yes a few of the drivers in the
04:00chasing pack didn't get proper laps in in sort of quality trim however it's still 7 tenths so therefore George
04:07knows this is a huge moment for him today huge session.
04:10Yeah I think it is I think you know they've got this session and the sprint and then they've got
04:14another qualifying session obviously tomorrow so it is this is very very difficult and it is about you know I
04:19think James said it in starting your conversation as well it's about not making mistakes and this track is about
04:25not making mistakes.
04:26You don't need to be P1 at the end of the first qualifying session it's about gradually building up to
04:32it the track will feel very different to how it did this morning so who is going to keep calm
04:38and try and get it to because yes it's important but it is about being quite this session is going
04:43to be a bit calm.
04:44Okay let's go to the skypad Karun is there Karun what have you got for us going to look at
04:47the side by side I believe.
04:50I am Simon let's take a look at the two laps and the Mercedes drivers this morning.
04:54Kimi Antonelli on the left George Russell on the right it was a tenth and a half between them and
04:58just looking at the first section there you can see just in terms of track usage I'll go back Antonelli
05:04feels like he's got a bit more confidence to attack the curb look at George there snap of oversteer we
05:09saw him in fact spin off later on in the session there.
05:12So Antonelli gets a cleaner run he gets a bit more width into turn two and that is important because
05:19even before we've got too far into the lap and I'll use the curb there on the right as a
05:23reference you'll sneak up to the end of the curb.
05:26Antonelli has already started to pull a bit of margin and in fact that carries on uphill to turn three
05:32as well through the action three four she came pretty much even Stevens between the drivers both of them leaving
05:38a bit of margin to the wall on the right Antonelli leaving a bit more margin in fact than George.
05:43Let's get up to six and seven little bit of under rotation for George just a hesitation but gets on
05:50that apex curb really nicely and if we come out of turn seven we'll use a curb again up there
05:57and you can see that margin there that Antonelli pulled compared to George at turn two has pretty much stayed
06:04the same through here.
06:05Now into turn eight George gets a little bit of oversteer on the way in I'll just slow it down
06:11watch Russell's hands here on the right as he turns in the rear of the car starts to step out
06:16of line he catches it gets to the apex and actually in a way it opens up the line for
06:22the second part so he ends up carrying despite that slide on the way in he carries a bit more
06:27speed through the actual chicane so when we look at the curb on the way out he's now actually a
06:33smidge ahead so he's pulled
06:35some of that time back through the 8-9 chicane when we get to the hairpin both drivers pretty good
06:42on the brakes but Russell doesn't seem he gets a slightly different trajectory just go back and watch it there
06:48he has a slightly different line Antonelli gets closer to that apex look at Russell understeering look at his hands
06:53completely upside down with the steering lock and there's hesitation on the throttle so he is slower picking up the
07:01power and then all that advantage that he's gained
07:03at the 8-9 chicane he's now giving away he's slower through the corner slower on the throttle and then
07:09loses out all the way up to that final chicane into that final chicane itself gets over that curb Kimi
07:16looks like he's got a bit more confidence just carry minimum speed pulls out a little bit more time this
07:22is a confident circuit Simon and the teenager the world championship leader still feels like he's got a bit more
07:29behind the wheel of his Mercedes back to you
07:31yeah he can do no wrong at the moment quick look at the drivers and construction just to whiz you
07:35through this 20 points between the two Mercedes drivers Lewis was quicker than Charles in that practice session but trails
07:42him and is tied on points with the current world champion Lando Norris who finished that session down in 6th
07:47his teammate Oscar Piastri without lap in 7th
07:53and Franco Colapinto probably gets the award for most improved driver aside from Kimi Antonelli so far this season he's
08:02up to 11th after a good weekend in Miami in the constructors well it is Mercedes with a healthy 70
08:08point gap over Ferrari and then 16 to McLaren and McLaren leading Red Bull by 64.
08:15talking of those two teams and we know that Giampiero Lambiesi is leaving Red Bull for the start of 2028
08:22to go to McLaren but some disagreements about the role that he'll be taking here's the two current team principals
08:29in charge this is what they had to say on the matter.
08:35It's certainly my understanding that GP is going to McLaren to become a team principal that's what I told you
08:41at the time obviously we had a number of conversations before he was going to make the decisions now don't
08:49ask me if it's going to happen the timing of it is none of my business
08:53I can just tell you the content of our conversations.
08:56I very strongly wanted GP to join McLaren I am personally very stretched in my role as team principal and
09:07I need a strong group of leaders working with me so I think the plan is very clear any other
09:14speculation leads us back to the silly season.
09:20It's cleared up I was thinking that this has been a bit mounted out of molehills but there was speculation
09:26you know was he going across his team principal well Andrea Stella was just quite clear there and I think
09:32this is kind of emerged right at the start he's a busy boy he needs some help.
09:37Yeah exactly and there's a lot of teams up and down the petlion that have this structure of like I
09:41guess we used to call it a chief race engineer and then a race engineer on each car and that's
09:45more the role that GP's going to there has been a few teams there has been a few teams that
09:51have then incorporated that so like in GP's current role with Red Bull he's head of race engineering and Max
09:58Verstappen's race engineer so it's more getting him this position where he is a bit more overall control of that
10:04engineering department which I think it'll really see him.
10:06I mean that's it just shows you that the best stop best teams never stop constantly improving again go back
10:12to what James was saying Williams are on the poach if you like at the moment but it's just part
10:17of the sport.
10:18Exactly and it's a team of people this sport there's so many different individuals that also have to work together
10:23we've seen it for example with Adrian Newey and Aston Martin you don't always take all the best people and
10:28put them together and think that's going to make it work you've got to find a good calibration and I
10:32really like this way that you know you see team principals deputy team principals whether they've got that title or
10:38not is kind of how the structure is internally and it allows I think for more bandwidth for the team
10:43principals because they are busy and there is a lot going on for them on a political side on a
10:48media side everything so it gives them a bit more opportunity to think about the race team right sprint weekend
10:52it's a busy weekend there's also F2 and F1 Academy and after the break we're going to hear from Alba
10:57Larson who last month delivered an inspiring speech about women in motorsport.
11:03It was such an amazing platform to be able to go up and tell my story tell my mission I'm
11:08really really thankful to all the people who helped me get on that stage and you know bring out the
11:13message.
11:25Welcome back in case you weren't watching earlier nasty moment for Alex Albon turned six seven you can see just
11:32that shadow in front of him that was one of the groundhogs from around here and very unfortunate for that
11:38groundhog but unfortunately
11:41Alex hit it then crashed the car and is now well they've been frantically working on it ever since but
11:48it made a bit of a mess of that car and as a result of that Ted what can you
11:53tell us about his chances of taking part in sprint qualifying?
11:58Well unfortunately Simon Williams say there is no chance so Williams say that Alex Albon will not be able to
12:03take part in sprint qualifying and so will start Saturday's sprint race from the back of the grid
12:09if he's allowed to do that by the stewards and just you know another example of how the smallest thing
12:15just an animal a poor groundhog running onto the track at the very worst time can have significant consequences both
12:21for the unfortunate groundhog and for a racing driver in a race.
12:25Not that that really matters so much but it does mean as you can see the car is in several
12:30pieces the rear wing the rear gearbox isn't even on the car so it will necessitate a new gearbox a
12:37new engine
12:38and so we will only have 21 cars going into sprint qualifying that might be down I'm afraid to say
12:43to 20 because Liam Lawson's car Simon is also in some doubt he had a hydraulic failure in the only
12:50practice session we had this morning
12:52and Alan Permain the team boss is saying that it's really a race against time and if I'm looking at
12:56this car right now again look at this Kieran
12:59no gearbox on the car no engine the car in many many pieces and I think the fears of the
13:05team boss Alan Permain down here at Racing Bulls will be well founded
13:08I think this is looking like another car that won't make it ready for sprint qualifying if it does it
13:14will be somewhat of a miracle
13:15but yeah that's another car come a cropper but happily for Liam Lawson it was just a hydraulic failure
13:21and no further groundhogs were injured in his incident.
13:25Good stuff yeah bad news that for Alex Albon as I mentioned before the break it's actually the return of
13:30F1 Academy at this weekend and
13:33Ferrari or part of the Ferrari young driver programs Alba Larson and she caught up with Rachel early this week.
13:40Albert it's an absolute pleasure to talk to you today I wanted to start if I can with the talk
13:46you gave at the summit
13:48Let's start with the facts. Less than 5% of Formula racing drivers are female. There are no women on
13:55the Formula 1 grid.
13:57None in F2 and none in F3. Across every top tier of professional motorsport the story is the same.
14:04This isn't because girls aren't interested in racing. 40% of F1's global audience is female.
14:12What sort of reaction did you have to that because it was it was very impressive?
14:16Thank you it was it was amazing uh it was one of the biggest one I've done um it was
14:22such an amazing
14:23platform to be able to go up and tell my story tell my mission. I'm really really thankful to all
14:28the
14:29people who helped me get on that stage and you know bring out the message. I've had such positive
14:36um feedback from it both online and people who have seen it in real life everyone was very very happy
14:42and and just it was such a inspirational day where we talked about the future and the future of racing
14:50the future of girls in racing. We're sitting in the Formula 1 paddock right now we're outside Ferrari
14:55you have your Ferrari top on because you're representing them in the F1 Academy right now
15:00but you only started karting during lockdown is that right so in 2020 so your path has been incredibly
15:06quick. It has and it feels like it was yesterday but it also feels like it's been 10 years because
15:13so much has happened in such a short amount of time um i've experienced so much cool stuff now to
15:19be a
15:20part of Ferrari is such an amazing thing to be able to say not many drivers get to do that
15:25and i just feel
15:26very honoured that they chose me um between so many drivers they can pick and choose from anyone
15:31and they chose me to be part of their team. I hate to bring it up but you've been leading
15:37a couple of
15:37races and then had incidents so how do you get over that and then how do you approach the next
15:43time
15:43you're in the lead and and how do you approach this weekend i guess as well? For me it's it's
15:48not a sore
15:49point anymore uh i have learned so much from these incidents um that i feel very very prepared for
15:56when it's going to happen again uh that i'm in the lead i know what to do um and what
16:01not to do
16:01last year i had a bit of a learning year was my first full season in in formula cars by
16:08the end of
16:08the season i was leading in vegas it was wet it was um super slippery i made a bit of
16:13mistake
16:14um but i learned so much from that and now in shanghai i know that i have the speed and
16:19we just
16:19keep showing that from now on. This weekend then what are your thoughts on this track what are your
16:24expectations? I really like this track we were here last year and i had a pretty good weekend here i
16:30didn't do so well in qualifying but i was the one overtaking the most i finished in the top five
16:35and
16:35um i know that you can really overtake you can have some really good races here uh so i'm excited
16:42for
16:42that this weekend if there's a young girl watching right now at home what would your message be if
16:47she thinks oh i couldn't possibly do that of course you can i think girls can be just as fast
16:52as boys
16:52even faster i think if you want to go for it you should there should be no stopping you just
16:58go for it
17:01and it certainly didn't stop you jamie a three-time winner of the w series what have you felt about
17:05the way that f1 academy has kind of embedded itself into into f1 weekends yeah i think it's going from
17:11strength to strength um yeah very nice seeing alba and she's someone that's really using her platform
17:16and platform ferrari but also given her for the best for the next generation of female talent which
17:21is fantastic but what i'm excited about is this the next generation of female drivers coming through and
17:26given the opportunity in f1 academy i think that's what what's going to be exciting um it really has
17:31made a difference to mainly f4 grids a lot more female participation in particular in those kind of
17:37fields of and areas of the sport so yeah it's exciting i think it's gonna play a big shift over
17:42the next few years particularly uh yes we start to see uh then progress up through the ranks yeah i
17:47think you know it's people like that jimmy all these these girls like little young girls at home or
17:53parents of young girls at home can see that there is progression there is this opportunity out there
17:58and it's getting those much younger girls interested in court and giving it a go going to their local
18:03tracker just trying it out and then you know as alba said they're trying to increase participation at
18:09the youth levels will then start to see more and more females coming through that right yeah same on
18:14the pit wall as well seeing more and more females in there trying to appear into the back of car
18:18number
18:1844's garage for no sign of lewis hamilton yet i mean he's so successful around this circuit same as
18:23schumach versus six holes and seven wins he's um what is it about canada i mean you you talked about
18:29it
18:29but to come to you jamie from a driving perspective he said no mistakes he's so precise here he knows
18:34every single line in every single condition doesn't he he's very good it's funny how drivers have their
18:40favorites in terms of tracks i think actually lewis and george are quite similar in some of the tracks
18:44that they seem to go well at canada budapest this is a very technical circuit it's very start stop it
18:50requires a lot it's a low downpour circuit as well so in terms of what you need from the car
18:55the car's not
18:56always giving you everything you want because it's a little bit tricky as we saw in uh fp1 very very
19:01dusty as well um and i think that's where bernie's point of no mistakes comes in is the track's going
19:05to get better and better so you've got to be there in that last lap in qualifying because yeah it's
19:10only going to improve from now on in they were third and fourth in the uh the hour of practice
19:14again i mean we're going to see what happens um when it comes to sprint qualifying itself and actually
19:20the difference that you do get between sprint qualify and qualifying once they've come out of
19:24park fermi again that does seem to change certainly changed in miami didn't it yeah and i think it
19:28will change a lot here because we're expecting tomorrow to be another nice sunny day so their
19:33setup that they do here might be very different to the one that they do on qualifying on saturday
19:37winter sunday but this track is about having confidence on the big breaking zone so that's what
19:42the teams are really focusing on is that breaking and all the big steps here quick word on max we
19:48know
19:48that uh nothing separated him and george in actual qualifying um in 2024 when they raced around
19:55here but there we go kimmy antonelli is the man with momentum as i mentioned at the top of the
20:00show
20:00it's up to the rest of the chasing back to catch up we'll see next in sprint qualify
20:05so
20:06so
20:06so
20:08Bis zum nächsten Mal.
20:38Bis zum nächsten Mal.
21:06All the best laps I've seen are the ones where they obviously don't hit it too hard, but
21:10they glance it.
22:12On Sunday, back at 7.30, an hour and a half build-up ahead of lights out at 9 o
22:16'clock for the
22:17Canadian Grand Prix.
22:18Rain is forecast for Sunday, but tomorrow looking like another sunny one.
22:23And it's George Russell that has taken pole for the sprint.
22:281.12.965 for him.
22:32Just over half a tenth it was to his teammate Kimi Antonelli, but we'll discuss that in a
22:38couple of moments of time.
22:47It's the second sprint pole of the season for George Russell.
22:50For his teammate Kimi Antonelli, just over half a tenth behind.
22:53He's qualified second in every sprint qualifying this year.
22:56Let's hear from the championship leader.
23:006.100, Kimi.
23:01Was it there at all, do you feel?
23:04The lap was quite bad, to be fair.
23:06This session was not clean at all.
23:10You know, I did a mistake in SQ2 and that threw me off a little bit.
23:15Then I decided to go for lap one on soft without doing prep and yet I were a bit cold
23:21and it
23:21was just a messy session, but still P2 and very close.
23:24So the potential is definitely there and, yeah, we'll do better tomorrow.
23:30Three tenths over your rivals in that session at least.
23:33Do you feel that's a representative gap to the rest of the field right now?
23:37Yeah, for sure.
23:38I mean, we brought the upgrade and that's what it was giving to us in terms of performance.
23:43So, of course, we still need to understand a little bit more the package because the balance
23:48has changed a little bit.
23:49But overall, yeah, we, you know, it seems to have given us a little bit of an edge again.
23:57But, yeah, we'll focus on it tomorrow.
24:01Good bounce back, Jamie.
24:03Just what George would have needed up against Kimi.
24:06But Kimi there explaining, yeah, a few issues.
24:09So maybe it could have been a different story.
24:11I needed bounce back, but it felt like, I don't know, I don't know if he was holding something
24:15back in practice or Q1 or SQ1, but it just felt like as SQ2 started, George just found
24:21form.
24:21And from there on in, it's actually ended up being closer than I would have expected in
24:24that last run.
24:25Obviously, Kimi said he was battling a few issues, but with the track evolution at the
24:29very end, I think that's where Mercedes put the mark down and really found that big margin
24:33to the other field.
24:34Yeah, it was a very mixed up grid right up to those last laps.
24:38You weren't quite sure how it was going to end up in terms of who was going to be on
24:41that
24:41pole position.
24:41But I think Mercedes were very strong, as we expected.
24:45It looked for a while like Lewis might be on the front row there.
24:47So quite tight amongst the people behind it, which is that Mercedes got that final lap in
24:52at that right time.
24:53The gap not as big as it was in practice to the rest.
24:55But as you're saying, I mean, they know that they've got a decent car and the upgrades that
25:00are coming are improving.
25:01You could hear what George had to say.
25:03Yeah, it's clearly working for them.
25:04I think that's kind of what we expected coming into it.
25:06McLaren didn't put their laps in in practice.
25:08They had a cleaner run in that last run and, yeah, it ended up being the second row.
25:12Lewis was flying.
25:13That was the one that was the maybe slight anomaly.
25:15Obviously, we know he goes well here, but Ferrari not bringing any upgrades.
25:19They're the ones that I'm actually surprised by how competitive they look throughout the
25:22session.
25:22But it was also, as Bernie said, no mistakes.
25:24That last lap of qualifying was when no mistakes seemed to creep in.
25:28And, yeah, we actually saw the kind of proper order of where all the cars were at.
25:31And it gave us, I think, a good read on the rest of the weekend.
25:34It's a strange one, isn't it?
25:35I mean, actually, you can liken George and Oscar, similar tracks that they don't like.
25:40But here, this is clearly one that George absolutely adores.
25:44He was saying, you know, he was just explaining he had a very tight relationship with Toto.
25:48But he will have been feeling the pressure.
25:50Talking to Andrew Shufflin as well in there, one of the engineering team.
25:54It's, yeah, I mean, I don't know.
25:56I'll put it to you, Bernie.
25:58You know, you are someone like George Russell who's been around now.
26:00He's extremely experienced.
26:01He's expecting this to be his year.
26:03No two ways about it.
26:05And then he's had this from Kimi.
26:07And it's how he deals with it, really.
26:09Yeah, you know, and I think that George has got a lot of experience.
26:12He's been waiting for this moment to have the car that could potentially bring him that first driver's championship.
26:17And it's there, you know.
26:19He can sort of sense it in his grasp.
26:21So it's getting the best out of it.
26:22George is relentless through many seasons.
26:25We've seen him very few mistakes, very consistent over the course of the season.
26:29That will be his strength this year compared to Kimi Antonelli.
26:34You know, that's what he's going to be sort of relying on, I think, through this season.
26:37And all drivers know that we do lots of work at the end of the season of where their strengths
26:42are, where their weakness are, which tracks they like, which to be strong at.
26:46And he'll have known where Canada's coming up on their calendar.
26:50And then that is his opportunity to sort of turn the tide a little bit.
26:54Now, it's only sprint qualifying.
26:55There's a lot of the weekend still to go.
26:58But he'll have had that little extra bit of confidence in himself coming into this weekend.
27:02Actually, that's been his strength coming through the formula all the way in the junior categories.
27:08George, by his own admission, you know, he's just consistent.
27:12And I might be making this up.
27:13Am I making this up? Did he not finish in the points every single race last year?
27:17Someone will correct me, I'm sure, if I'm wrong.
27:19But, I mean, that's the thing, isn't it?
27:21He just, he's capable of churning out.
27:23He's capable of always, you know, being near to his best.
27:26Exactly. I think it's making your bad races not that bad,
27:29which I think that's the first we've seen of George have such a deficit to Kimi was in Miami.
27:35So making sure it's a long season.
27:37When you're not on form, you're not finding everything you need from the car,
27:40but those are the weekends you can't be missing points and losing out too much.
27:44So that's normally where George is strong.
27:47For me, I think George just needs to be comfortable being uncomfortable this year
27:50because Kimi is going to be at his heels all year.
27:53That's no doubt about that.
27:54At times, he's going to be quicker.
27:55And I think George isn't quite used to that yet.
27:57So you need to get used to that feeling.
27:58And then I think he can find confidence in his own driving like he did today,
28:02which was a very strong performance.
28:04Okay, let's see what his boss Toto Wolff made of it.
28:06He's talking with Ted.
28:09Nice to see the smile back on George's face.
28:13Yeah.
28:13It's only sprint qualifying, but hey.
28:15Yeah, it's only the baby race.
28:16But still, you know, it was, it's good to see the pace is there.
28:22Also for his confidence, but, you know, I've never doubted.
28:25We have never doubted in that it was, man, it was a bad track.
28:28Yeah, yeah.
28:29Back to a circuit that he feels comfortable and comforted.
28:33It's very tight, though, 68 thousandths of a second.
28:36What's Kimi's day been like so far?
28:39Yeah, absolutely.
28:39But it's always clear that, you know, the kiddo is fast and has shown that.
28:46So I think it's good for both of them to fight like this.
28:50It makes the team faster and there's not a lot in it.
28:55What's in, talking of what's in it, how much time do all these upgrades that everybody working in Brackley has
29:01worked so hard to bring?
29:03What are we talking, half a second?
29:04Well, it was enormous workload that was being brought to the car.
29:09I think if Lewis doesn't make this one mistake in the hairpin, he's probably fighting for Paul here with us.
29:14So we need to see what it brings in the real quality tomorrow and in the race.
29:18I don't want to get either too greedy of is that good enough or not.
29:23But on the other side, also not too negative.
29:27Well, no, certainly not negative.
29:29One, two on the grid.
29:29See you tomorrow.
29:30Thank you.
29:31Thank you.
29:32Yeah, another good day in the office for Toto and both of his drivers.
29:35A reasonable day for the McLarens.
29:38Lando Norris in third.
29:38Oscar Piastri in fourth, locking out the second row of the grid.
29:41Let's hear from them and also from Andrea Stella.
29:45Lando, three-tenths off the Mercedes in the end.
29:49Is that a good result today from what you've seen earlier in the weekend?
29:54No, very good.
29:55Very good result, actually.
29:57No, a good surprise.
29:58I think after this morning, we were a little bit worried, let's say, about how far off we were
30:02and more just the lack of confidence in the car.
30:06But we made some tweaks.
30:08We went, yeah, we changed some things and seemed to make a good improvement.
30:11So I'm happy with third.
30:12I mean, it wasn't the best lap.
30:13I could have got more out of it.
30:14But then when I saw the gap to the guys ahead, not that much, you know.
30:18So no positive turnarounds.
30:20And I'm proud of the team that we managed to do such a good job.
30:23How are the upgrades feeling?
30:24And does the car feel like it could challenge for the win in the sprint tomorrow?
30:27I think it certainly felt decent.
30:32Some things are maybe a bit more questionable.
30:34And we probably need just more time to review things and look back,
30:39especially because it's such a weird track.
30:40This is so low grip.
30:42You're kind of bouncing off curbs and stuff.
30:43So you're not getting a kind of a true representation of everything.
30:48And it's hard to kind of back it up with what we have in the win tunnel and things like
30:52that.
30:52So we need a bit more time with some bits.
30:55And we'll probably reintroduce some of them next weekend or in Barcelona.
30:59But at the same time, the rest of the car now, I think, was clearly working well.
31:03And I felt confident in Q3, especially on the soft, which is probably the first time this weekend that I
31:09felt that confidence.
31:09So now a good step forward and we'll see what we can improve knowing that into tomorrow.
31:14Great stuff.
31:14Thank you.
31:15Thank you.
31:16Hi, Oscar.
31:17How is the car feeling out there?
31:19And is that a good sign for these upgrades, essentially?
31:23I mean, it was feeling pretty good.
31:25I think a bit of a messy day for everybody, I think.
31:28But the Mercedes still looks very strong.
31:32So I think that's probably the biggest takeaway from today, unfortunately.
31:36But we'll see what we can do, see how we can optimize things a bit better and try our best
31:41again tomorrow.
31:42The Ferraris look pretty strong for a while.
31:44You've both had good starts so far this season.
31:46Is that a challenge tomorrow while you want to get ahead of the Mercedes?
31:49You've got to keep an eye on your rearview mirrors.
31:51Yeah, I mean, our starts have been better than the Ferraris all year.
31:56So we're confident in ours.
31:58I'm sure it's only a matter of time before Mercedes get theirs competitive as well.
32:04But until that time comes, we'll try our best to take advantage of it.
32:09Thank you.
32:09Thanks very much.
32:11Well, Andrea, it's third and fourth.
32:13But did you expect to be that margin behind the Mercedes?
32:16Three tenths, I think it is.
32:18I think it's a fair margin considering that they had important upgrades here.
32:24We also had some upgrades.
32:26We actually wanted to take a bit more time to see the behavior of the front wing.
32:31So we race with the previous front wing.
32:33So looking at the fact that the car is pretty much the Miami car, it's a gap that remains encouraging.
32:41Obviously, we want to be in pole position.
32:43And today we are three tenths off.
32:44So all things need to be put in perspective.
32:47But overall, an encouraging session.
32:48The practice session was complex with the behavior of the tires, the behavior of the brakes, and some aerodynamic experiments.
33:00So we are happy that the engineers and the drivers kind of put all together for the qualifying session.
33:08As always, in the sprint event, you learn from the sprint quality, you learn from the sprint itself, and we
33:13see what farther step we will be able to make for the race.
33:17Interesting.
33:18Yeah, I was going to ask about the front wing.
33:19Is it maybe that it's not circuit-dependent for this one?
33:24Maybe it's better for a circuit that has other characteristics?
33:27Or is it that the wing is not giving you the advantage that the simulations may be suggested that it
33:32works?
33:32No, it doesn't have to do with the circuit characteristic.
33:35It's more that we want to take more time to see the correlation between the data and what we expect
33:43from the development tools.
33:45So when it's a sprint event, you know that you only have one session.
33:49We want to race a car that we know.
33:50We want to race a car that is predictable.
33:52So for the moment, we are going for the Miami front wing.
33:56We'll see what happens the rest of the weekend.
33:58Thank you very much.
34:00Bernie, just tell us, or tell the viewers, from an engineering perspective, the difference between a normal weekend with your
34:06three practice sessions and a sprint weekend in terms of the development you can make, the catch-up that you
34:11can make for the race.
34:13Yeah, I think that there's a few things.
34:15You've got much less testing.
34:17So in a P1 session, you've got the one hour before you go into the sprint qualifying this afternoon that
34:22we've just had.
34:23And that's very short to try and get any long-run data, any high-fuel data.
34:27So you have to decide whether you're going to prioritise.
34:30And we do very disrupted practice this morning with the red flags.
34:35Are you going to prioritise as a qualifying aspect?
34:39Are you going to put more importance on the sprint tomorrow?
34:43I'm struggling with my words.
34:45Take your time, Bernie.
34:46I'm trying to understand anyway.
34:49What's your most important, darling, that you're trying to get out of that car?
34:52So that's the first thing.
34:53I think what the new regulations this year, the last few years, have been that we do the sprint qualifying
34:58this afternoon and we do the sprint tomorrow morning.
35:00Then they can reset the car.
35:02They can change it.
35:03They can change the ride-outs.
35:04They can change the front wing if they want to.
35:06Because the race obviously starts at a much higher fuel level.
35:10So your setup for the race will be different for the setup for sprint, even if you're totally happy with
35:15the sprint setup.
35:17So there's lots of things the engineers are trying to manage.
35:19It is interesting that McLaren had that front wing on, then took it off and say, oh, it's a test
35:25item.
35:25Because you wouldn't normally run that sort of test item in a practice session here if you didn't think there
35:30was a chance you were going to keep it for the rest of the weekend.
35:32OK, just a quick one on Lando, though.
35:35You know, he will want a car underneath him to defend his title, right?
35:39I mean, it's going to be difficult.
35:40We know that against the might of Mercedes and the way that they're performing at the moment.
35:45But they're staying positive.
35:46And this team know how, well, we all know how good they are at developing.
35:50They are.
35:51And to be honest, he seems relatively content.
35:53All he can do at the moment is compare to Oscar.
35:56And I think he's a current world champion and he's done an incredible job over the last year.
36:00But even this year, I think he seems very relaxed.
36:02He seems happy.
36:03I'm happy that Oscar seems to have found quite a bit of performance from Miami.
36:07They're very closely matched this weekend, which I think is good for Oscar and his peace of mind.
36:11But for Lando, yeah, I think he can just do the job he can and hope that the car gets
36:14to a place that can fight the Mercedes later in the year.
36:17OK, we're going to take a short break.
36:18When we come back, we will wrap up the day.
36:21And we'll talk about Ferrari.
36:23Lewis Hamilton, well, he was good on the mediums, wasn't he?
36:25Right at the top of the timesheets and in the first run in SQ3.
36:30But then just drifted off to fifth.
36:31They locked up the third row of the grid.
36:33Their thoughts short.
36:44Good session, that, for Lewis Hamilton.
36:46But in the end, he had to plump for fifth, unfortunately.
36:51A nice little souvenir for him.
36:52Let's hear from him and also from his teammate, Charlotte Clare.
36:57Hey Lewis, I don't think there was anyone more committed through that final chicane out there.
37:00It looked like you had a car that you were having a lot of fun with.
37:03I know it wasn't maybe as high up as you would hope, but that was a great quality it looked
37:06like for you.
37:06Yeah, great, probably the best qualifying session we had for some time and just really great work with the engineers,
37:15set up changes.
37:16The car felt really fantastic from P1 and we made just subtle changes going into quality.
37:23P1 and P2 was looking good, and then I don't know why the others were able to turn up a
37:28little bit more.
37:29I don't know, but I'm just happy to be there in a fight, you know, I was having so much
37:34fun out there.
37:35So, and also, you know, the fact that I didn't do the sim and I feel it's the best I
37:40felt all year, so I think that's the way forward for me.
37:43Maybe that should be the way forward, I guess, from the start.
37:45In terms of the comfort in the car, did it feel like, like you said, from P1, it just came
37:49alive after that hard work, you've done what your engineers?
37:50Yeah, we worked really hard seeping through the data the last couple of weeks and I found that so much
38:01more beneficial in terms of when I was able to just focus on training and not be distracted and then
38:07the second part was just like really going through the flying cone with ride stability, through corner balances and mechanical
38:15balance and just find, and I chose a setup that we've not used, I don't know, we've never used it.
38:20actually before, so, and it's, it's transformed the car for me, so I hope that goes well for the rest
38:26of the weekend.
38:26Well, best of luck for the rest of the weekend, thanks.
38:29Hi, Charles.
38:30The Ferrari had looked really quick there.
38:32McLaren have just pipped you to that second row.
38:34Is that roughly what you expected or were you hoping more from more this weekend?
38:39Honestly, on my side, I kind of expected it, I haven't been at all, I'm really, really struggling with the
38:46brakes on my side of the garage for some reason, so we need to look into it, trying to find
38:52something for tomorrow, otherwise it's going to be a very long weekend because I, yeah, in the brakes I get
38:58into the corners hoping that I don't end up going straight, so, so yeah, that's, that's the main issue at
39:04the moment.
39:04Other than that, the car feels actually quite, quite okay.
39:08Lewis has been incredibly quick this weekend, but, yeah, on my side, I just need to work on the feelings
39:15with, with the brakes and hopefully we can turn the situation around tomorrow.
39:20Jamie, we discuss it so often, a happy Lewis, when he's at a track that he loves, it quite often
39:25translates to, to his performance, doesn't it?
39:27And he looks good on track, it looks like he's super comfortable in the car, I think just missing out
39:31on the, at the end then, but, yeah, putting in purple sectors like no tomorrow, so that's the Lewis we
39:36love to see, and it's on good form, I mean, he's put in a good argument not to use the
39:40simulator as well, again, which I'm sure that department.
39:42Convenient.
39:43Yeah, exactly, we'll be thrilled to hear, but, yeah, incredible performance, so I'm looking forward to seeing how he goes
39:46at main qualifying tomorrow as well.
39:48Yeah, we obviously know about the Ferrari's fast starts, and Mercedes struggling in that area, so let's, let's see if
39:54they can, if they can get ahead, can they stay ahead?
39:56Yeah, I think that George Russell and the Mercedes are probably a little bit happy that the McLaren are in
40:01the middle there, but Ferrari have been very good at their start, so if they can maximize it, and then,
40:05not only the start, the opening laps of the race, the Ferrari seems strong, seems to drift away a little
40:10bit later in the race.
40:11So, if they can maximize that potential here, it is possible to overtake here, so even around the first lap,
40:18if they can get good out of a corner, they're good at that initial acceleration, that's where I think their
40:22strength is potentially going to be.
40:24Okay, not the smoothest of qualifiers for Max Verstappen, hauled it through, though, to start from seventh, talking to Lawrence
40:29Barretta.
40:32Hey, Max, your pace in that first section on the medium tyre looked good, just as that quality progressed, were
40:37you disappointed maybe that the Mercedes, the McLarens, the Ferraris just moved up a little bit?
40:41I mean, I'm not surprised, I mean, just, yeah, my feeling in the car was not very good, I was
40:46struggling a lot with just the ride of the car, so all over the bumps, couldn't put my foot down,
40:52actually my feet were even flying off the pedal, so, yeah, just made it very difficult to be consistent, and
40:58that's something that we need to investigate.
41:01Were you able to make a step at least from this morning into the sprint quality?
41:04No, no, that was not great, so, of course, we were stuck with that for the sprint, but, yeah, some
41:11other things to understand, and hopefully that will be then a bit better for quality.
41:15So how tricky do you think the rest of the weekend's going to be, with the car that you've got?
41:18I don't know, we'll see.
41:19All right, best of luck, thanks.
41:22Two by two by two by two for the top eight, the top four teams in the championship.
41:27Max Verstappen, though, only 10th clear of his teammate, that kind of highlights, when he's out, well, considering it was
41:33a second between them, wasn't it, in Miami in qualifying,
41:35and Hadja was just all over the place with his head, by the looks of things, closer today?
41:41Yeah, I think Hadja had a good weekend, I think there was a lot of discussion, I think, in the
41:44paddock, I'm not sure who said it earlier,
41:46that he found some difficulties that he was having in the car, found some answers to why the pace deficit
41:50was there,
41:51and he's worked at correcting them for this weekend, and that has shown Max clearly very uncomfortable with the car,
41:57never a good sign, I'm sure Jimmy knows,
41:59when your feet are coming off the pedals, that's the last thing we want in an F1 car.
42:02It's also more concerning that he's just been at the Nordschleife, which has two jumps in the track,
42:07and he's complaining about his feet being off the pedals in an F1 car, so, uncomfortable with that,
42:11I think he's complaining about the diff and the rear instability in FP1, so, they're going to probably use tomorrow
42:16as a bit of a practice session to get on top of some stuff.
42:18A word, Jamie, on Isik, though, because after everything that happened in Miami, that's a session that will give him
42:24some confidence,
42:25he needs to stay on his coattails, unlike some of the other teammates, Max Sad.
42:29He does, and I think he came out the block strong this season, with the rules changed, I think it's
42:33a bit of a softer landing for him,
42:35but equally, I think, yeah, he's got to keep his head down for tomorrow and have a good day.
42:40Okay, Arvid Lindblad to wrap things up into the top ten.
42:45Arvid, that looked like a pretty good session for you out there, is that a fair reflection on it?
42:49Yeah, I think, for sure, the pace was better than expected, I think the team have done a mega job,
42:55obviously, we've brought this new upgrade, it seems to be working well, and I think also, you know, I'm happy
43:00with myself,
43:00obviously, it's a very difficult track, you know, to come to as a rookie, especially on a sprint weekend,
43:05and I think I've done a good job to get up to speed, a little bit disappointed with SQ3,
43:09because I think I could have maximized more, but, you know, still, I think we were,
43:15I think to be in Q3 is really good compared to where we were in Miami,
43:17so, a few things to work on on my side, but overall, happy with myself and very grateful to the
43:22team.
43:23What can you expect from tomorrow? I know you haven't raced around this track before,
43:25but what can you expect from tomorrow in the sprint?
43:28Do you think you can get into the points?
43:30We'll see, I mean, in the end, I think we're best of the rest, I mean, you have all the
43:33top teams in front,
43:35which all the previous races, they've had quite a step, you know, they've been quite a step ahead.
43:39We've seen more competitive today in qualies, so we'll see, I think.
43:43Obviously, with all the interruptions in FP1, no one was able to get a proper long run,
43:47so we'll see, I think graining will be a factor, it was quite a big thing last year,
43:51we know that we have decent starts, so, I don't know, it should be, it should be fun,
43:54for sure we'll get stuck in and see what happens.
43:56Great, thank you very much, thank you.
43:59Jamie, explain why it is, you were just saying they're difficult for a rookie to come into,
44:03why is Canada so tricky to get right?
44:05It's tricky, well, for a few reasons, one, it's a street track,
44:08I think we saw in FP1 how dusty the track was, it evolves, it gets better,
44:11but then you've got the challenge of the walls and what have you,
44:14so I think, in that sense, any street track is tough to get on top of,
44:17but it's very technical, there's a lot of change of direction, low speed corners,
44:21it's low downforce as well, so the stability you get from the car
44:24isn't like they've had for the last few races,
44:27and then you've got to have the big balance of kerb compliancy,
44:30whilst a good, sort of stiff car that can change direction well,
44:33and then tyre warm-up on top of that.
44:35Technically, for a rookie, without all three practice sessions,
44:38it's one of the toughest, I think.
44:39And again, from an engineer's perspective, in terms of setting the cars up correctly,
44:43is it, again, as tricky as it is for the drivers?
44:46Yeah, I think it is.
44:47I think maybe we alluded to it at one point in commentary earlier,
44:49it's maybe a little bit easier with these cars,
44:52because there's a big delt, you can use DRS effectively,
44:55so you can drop the drag on the straights,
44:56whereas before you were trying to balance the downforce in those corners,
45:00with not having the drag on the straights.
45:02Now, because of the aerodynamic, the moving aerodynamics,
45:05then there's maybe a little bit, that balance might be a little bit easier,
45:08but it is tricky, because you don't want to compromise straight-line speed,
45:13because that is your overtaken possibilities in the race.
45:15And that could be a weakness for Ferrari tomorrow,
45:16they're going to balance that off again,
45:18their top-end speed against their fast starts.
45:20Where's the smart money tomorrow, and how important, again, for George?
45:23Yes, it's a pole, but there's no points for pole, so...
45:26No, George needs to be on top of the starts tomorrow,
45:29and have a clean race, and take that into qualifying,
45:31and then I think the Ferraris are going to get in the mix in the later positions.
45:35I think Mercedes is going to be even better tomorrow in the race.
45:38All right, let's see.
45:39F1 Academy qualifying is next here on Sky Sports Airport.
45:42Back with a sprint tomorrow from 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
45:46I hope it will be a cracker as well, but for the moment, as I said,
45:49it is the Mercedes duo that have locked out the front row of the grid
45:52with George Russell on top.
45:54Bye-bye.
45:57Sous-titrage ST' 501
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