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00:00Un e njpërshemod o eftikë më njpërskë më njpërshemë ysë hualë njpërshemë,
00:04njpërshemë fari seo façinu, eftikërshemë tomë eftikënxsë,
00:13Dërshemë, o ndjpërshemë fërshemë.
00:15Humë njpërshemë dhe njpërshemë aje njpërshemë to 27.
00:24Lënshemë me të ndjpërshemë dheftikërshemë,
00:29But then George Russell
00:29Flying in the middle sector
00:31Hamilton though
00:32If he is complaining of power issues
00:33Doesn't seem to be
00:34Holding him back too much
00:36Fastest of anybody
00:37Through that first sector
00:38Leclerc has the fastest
00:39Final sector
00:40Russell comes to the line
00:42Finds almost 2.5
00:43Tenths over Charles Leclerc
00:44To the top of the timing screen
00:46Cut to Lewis Hamilton
00:48Round the final corner
00:50Flat out as you like
00:52To the line then
00:52For the seven time champ
00:54Fastest by 92,000
00:57Yeah, it's 22-0 first sector
01:00So that seems to be
01:01Sort of where they're comfortable
01:03The amount of life
01:04They want to take out of their tyres
01:06To still have grip
01:07Through the critical middle
01:08And end sector
01:09Of the lap
01:10And you can just see
01:11The back end of the car
01:12Definitely trying to step out there
01:14On the racing balls
01:16Racing balls look
01:18Have looked pretty quick
01:19So far this weekend
01:20In that midfield fight
01:21Not too far away from there
01:22Red ball sister team
01:24As Lawson comes across the line
01:25In ninth
01:26Limblad up in sixth
01:28At the moment
01:28In the other racing balls
01:30But what about our reigning champion
01:31Lando Norris
01:32And McLaren
01:33Said that Barcelona
01:34A couple of races ago
01:36Could be the weekend
01:37Where this season
01:38Starts to come back
01:40Their way
01:40And Mercedes
01:41Aren't going to run away with it
01:43Can Norris
01:44Who's looked quick
01:44In practice so far
01:46Continue that form
01:47Throughout qualifying
01:48To the line
01:49Then his first run at it
01:51Season
01:51Into the top five
01:52Too much traffic
01:53For Lando Norris
01:54Would be driving through
01:55Dirty air
01:56At the end of the lap
01:57And also trying to second guess
01:58The backmarkers
01:59And what they're going to do
02:00And Piastri then
02:02Not out of the 16
02:03So
02:04A pretty ordinary
02:05First run there
02:06For McLaren
02:07What's going on?
02:08Fastest of anybody
02:09In that final sector
02:11For Oscar Piastri
02:13Now everybody's got
02:14Lap time on the board
02:15We get a clearer picture
02:16Valtteri Bottas
02:17Down in 20th
02:18At the moment
02:18Has looked better
02:19This weekend
02:20We have a yellow flag
02:21Out on track
02:22Doesn't affect Bottas
02:23Who crosses the line
02:24Improves up to 19th
02:26Ahead
02:26Of the Williams
02:27Of Alex Albon
02:28And the two Aston Martins
02:30Yellow flag's gone away
02:31Perhaps somebody's just
02:32Had a trip
02:32To the escape road
02:33Briefly
02:34And what are we
02:35Going to see here
02:36On board
02:37With Carlos Sainz
02:38Down to turn one
02:41Snatch the front right
02:42And into the runoff
02:43Yeah
02:44He's got a
02:45You're obliged to go
02:46Through that little
02:47Alpine pass
02:48Aren't you really?
02:49And
02:50We see then
02:51The other Williams
02:53Off the road
02:54Yeah
02:55Alex Albon
02:57Understeering
02:57Off into the gravel
02:59I also think
03:00Stroll
03:00Had a little bit
03:01Of an off
03:02Last lap around
03:03And that is actually
03:04Of the gravel
03:05Onto that racing line
03:07Here is the stroll
03:08Incident
03:08Into the gravel
03:10Manages to
03:11Jump across it
03:12And just about
03:13Keep momentum
03:14I think he was probably
03:15Probably arrived
03:16At a touch too much
03:17Speed was hanging
03:18On to the brake pedal
03:19Which
03:20Because it just
03:21Understood
03:21The front just slid
03:23It didn't steer enough
03:24And it literally
03:25Just
03:26Ran off the road
03:27With no front grip
03:29So work to do then
03:30With just six minutes
03:31Left of the session
03:32For the likes of
03:33This man here
03:33Esteban Ocon
03:34In his house
03:34He's actually behind
03:35The Cadillac
03:36Of Sergio Perez
03:37Who's doing another
03:38Good job
03:39In that car
03:40Bottas down in 19th
03:42The Williams of Albon
03:43And they've been
03:44Struggling all weekend
03:44On the two Aston Martins
03:46Currently confined
03:46To the back row
03:48Carlos Sainz
03:49Just on the periphery
03:51Of making it through
03:52Of making it through
03:53Into Q2
03:53But it can all change
03:55In these last
03:55Five and a half minutes
03:56A fresh set of boots
03:58Reapplied
03:59For our drivers
04:00Bit of track evolution
04:01As well
04:02Definitely yes
04:03Because we had
04:04In fact
04:05Our colleague
04:06Jacques Villeneuve
04:07A friend and colleague
04:08Was in the Porsche Super Cup
04:11They've got
04:12Completely different tyres
04:13And it just
04:13It just rips up
04:14Some of the
04:15Pirelli racing rubber
04:16From Formula 1
04:17Other activity
04:18Out there as well
04:19Track temperatures
04:20Dropped a couple
04:21Of degrees now
04:22Of course
04:22We are
04:22Getting into
04:24Late afternoon
04:25Here
04:2512 minutes past
04:27For in the afternoon
04:27So it will start
04:29To cool down
04:30A little bit
04:31And that makes
04:31A huge difference
04:32In your lap
04:33And you can go
04:33And do exactly
04:34The same thing
04:35And just go faster
04:36The umbrellas
04:37Are up
04:37In the grandstands
04:39No rain in sight
04:40It is to just
04:41Try and stay
04:41Out of that heat
04:43Right then
04:44We'll go all
04:45Quiet out on track
04:46Because everybody
04:46Is back in the
04:47Garages in the pit lane
04:48Ted
04:49Tell you what
04:50It's not quiet
04:50Down here Harry
04:51All I can hear
04:51Are tyres being changed
04:52So I'll let you know
04:53If the McLaren's
04:54Put a new set
04:55Of soft tyres on
04:56That would be
04:57A bit of a
04:59Drawback
05:00In terms of
05:00Using another set
05:01Now
05:02They are quite
05:02Valuable
05:03In terms of
05:04Good over one lap
05:05Not much good
05:06After that
05:07In fact
05:07I just see
05:08The Williams
05:09Of Carlos Sainz
05:10Leaving
05:10On a new set
05:11That makes sense
05:12To them
05:12They need to
05:13Burn through
05:13Try to get
05:14Out of Q1
05:16The Williams
05:16The McLaren
05:17If they really
05:18Wanted to hang it out
05:19And just try
05:21And see if they
05:22Can beat
05:22The cut off time
05:24I think they've got
05:25A couple of tenths
05:26Of a second
05:26In their pocket
05:26They could do it
05:28I don't expect
05:29Them to stay
05:29In the garage
05:30But if you're
05:31Thinking that a
05:31Cut off time
05:32Might be around
05:32A 1.164
05:34A 1.165
05:35Which is around
05:37Where Isaac Hadjar
05:37Is for P9
05:38At the moment
05:40Norris and Piastri
05:41Could if they're
05:42Willing to gamble
05:43Stay in the garage
05:45But it would be
05:45Quite a gamble
05:47I'll let you know
05:47I'm expecting them
05:48To go out again
05:49I'll let you know
05:50What tyres there are
05:50They're on when they do
05:51The excitement
05:52Of shiny
05:53Brand new tyres
05:56After 9 miles
05:57They'll hate them
05:58And hand them back
05:59Basically
06:00Because they'll have
06:00Had all the best
06:01Of the grip
06:02Out of them
06:03Because the rubber
06:03Has not been cured
06:06But the tread
06:08Has not been cured
06:09It gets a heat cycle
06:11Through
06:11And you just lose
06:13A little bit
06:13Of mechanical grip
06:14And you feel it
06:15In the car a lot
06:16You feel it
06:17In the traction zones
06:18Particularly when you
06:19Hit the throttle
06:19You know
06:20You just don't get
06:21The wheel spin
06:21You turn the nose
06:22Into a corner
06:23And it's much more
06:24Obedient
06:24Just the car
06:26Just comes alive
06:28It's a bit of voodoo
06:29But it's
06:30What motorsport
06:31Is all about
06:31And what motorsport
06:33Is all about
06:34Could be
06:35Fernando Alonso
06:36Formula 1 without
06:37Alonso
06:37Seems like an alien
06:38Place to be
06:39He's left
06:40Once before
06:41And then come back
06:42But this could be
06:43His last qualifying
06:44At the Barcelona
06:45Grand Prix
06:45And the flags
06:46Are out in force
06:47For him around
06:48The grandstands
06:49At the moment though
06:50He's glued
06:50To the back
06:51In 21st
06:52As he heads out
06:53Onto the circuit
06:53But that's presumably
06:54Because it's biannual
06:56From here on
06:56So he thinks
06:57I won't be here
06:58In 2028
06:59It's a good point
07:00That's a very good point
07:01When he says
07:01This could be my last
07:02Barcelona
07:03That's how I read that
07:05But we'll see
07:07I remember wishing him
07:08Farewell
07:09On the grid
07:09I think it was
07:102018
07:11In Abu Dhabi
07:12And he gave me
07:13A man hug
07:14And here he still is
07:16Did you think
07:17Did you think at the time
07:17You'll be back
07:18I thought he might be
07:20But I didn't expect him
07:21To still be here
07:22Hanging around
07:22In 2027
07:24It's incredibly impressive
07:26Well the car
07:27Not coming together
07:28For Aston Martin
07:29This year
07:30Upgrades expected
07:31To arrive
07:32But not for a few
07:33More races yet
07:34In terms of anything
07:35Significant
07:36On both the chassis side
07:37And the engine
07:38So the case of
07:39Alonso and Stroll
07:40Just trying to get
07:41Through it
07:42At the moment
07:42Stroll
07:43Over four seconds
07:44Off the pace
07:45But here we go then
07:46Into the final closing stages
07:48Of this first part
07:49Of qualifying
07:50You can see there
07:51Everybody from 17th down
07:52Will be eliminated
07:53At the close
07:53Of this minute and a half
07:55Gasly's on for a better lap
07:57But just losing time
07:58In that first sector
07:58Colopinto
07:59On for a personal best
08:01Albon
08:01Trying to get his Williams
08:03Up inside Q2
08:04Carlos signs
08:05His team mate
08:06Is right on the periphery
08:07For the home hero
08:08For the home crowd
08:09They could be at risk
08:10Of losing
08:11Two home heroes
08:12In this first part
08:13Of qualifying
08:14Top 11
08:15Stay in the pits
08:16They're comfortable
08:17And confident
08:18They've got enough
08:19Speed on the board
08:20Already
08:21But this
08:22Is going to get
08:23Pretty feisty
08:24And at the moment
08:25Both Spanish drivers
08:27Under pressure
08:28In this Q1
08:29Franco Colopinto
08:30To the line
08:31Gets his Alpine
08:32Up into 10th spot
08:33Gasly
08:34Behind him
08:36In 11th
08:37Here is Alex Albon
08:38Then down
08:38In 20th position
08:40To the line
08:40Gets himself through
08:42Up into 15th
08:43Will it be enough though?
08:44Because we're seeing
08:45Improvements
08:46From those behind
08:47Nico HĂŒlkenberg
08:48Ahead of Albon
08:49Already
08:49Would like to find himself
08:51A little bit more
08:51Of a comfortable gap
08:52Stroll crosses the line
08:53Only moves up
08:54To 21st
08:55Ahead of his teammate
08:57Alonso
08:57Tight lap
08:58From HĂŒlkenberg
08:59Up inside the top 5
09:00Yeah
09:01Very impressive
09:02Ocon now
09:03Just squeezes in as well
09:04And what about
09:05Oli Behrman
09:06His British teammate
09:07Nice lap
09:08From the British driver
09:09In his second season
09:10Of Formula 1
09:10Up to 11th
09:12That puts Alex Albon
09:13Back down
09:14The two Williams
09:14Look like they might be
09:16Consigned to a Q1 exit
09:18They're going to try
09:18For their might
09:19To go again
09:19Carlos Sainz
09:20Still out there
09:21On the track
09:21In the middle sector
09:22And Fernando Alonso
09:24Is going to be out
09:24Qualified
09:25By the looks of things
09:26By Lance Stroll
09:27For the first time
09:56In 42 races
09:58And we don't see this
09:59And we don't see this very often
10:00Lance Stroll
10:01Ahead of Fernando Alonso
10:06And for team principal
10:08James Vouse
10:09Who we've been speaking to
10:10Across the pit wall
10:11I think he'll be
10:12Frustrated in general
10:14But at least he gets
10:14One car
10:15Through
10:15Into Q2
10:17Alex Albon
10:17Who makes history
10:18This weekend
10:19When he starts
10:19His 96th
10:21Race for Williams
10:22The all time
10:23Starter
10:24For Williams
10:25On Sunday
10:27Unfortunately
10:27Falls
10:28By the wayside
10:29For Alex Albon
10:31Out in Q1
10:33Right
10:34We'll have a bit
10:35Of a recovery
10:35From that
10:36Hamilton quickest
10:37At the end though
10:37Of Q1
10:47But anyway
10:47I think
10:48We maximise it
10:49For tomorrow
10:50We are
10:51Now we have to check
10:53For tomorrow
10:54Yeah
10:55That's the compromise
11:02Sergio PĂ©rez
11:03Then at the end
11:03Of Q1
11:05Out
11:05But happy
11:06With his performance
11:0619th ahead
11:07Of his teammate
11:08Valtteri Bottas
11:10Now 5-2
11:11In the head-to-head
11:12In the favour
11:13Of the Mexican driver
11:15Right
11:15As we await
11:16For Q2
11:17To get started
11:18We've been joined
11:19Throughout the weekend
11:19By team principal
11:21For Williams
11:22James Vouse
11:23Who joins us
11:24Now at the end of that
11:24James
11:25Won through
11:26In the form
11:27Of Carlos Sainz
11:28Sadly
11:28Alex Albon
11:29Falls by the wayside
11:30Talk us through
11:31That session
11:31From your perspective
11:33Yeah
11:33We're struggling here
11:34There's no doubt
11:35About it
11:35And we weren't
11:36Expecting miracles
11:37Come qualifying
11:37Carlos did a good lap
11:39And if you heard
11:40His radio message
11:40We actually got
11:41The tyres
11:42In a good window
11:43For him
11:43And didn't maximise
11:44The lap
11:44So the good news
11:45Is a bit more to come
11:45With Alex
11:46It's just been
11:47A difficult balance
11:47For him to get on top
11:48Of all weekend
11:48But simply
11:50Can't not quick enough
11:50James
11:51We saw Alex
11:52Having an adventure
11:52On the outside
11:53Of turn 9
11:54Would that have
11:54Damaged any of the
11:55Aero parts
11:55Underneath the car
11:56Yeah
11:57The floor would have
11:58Taken a little bit
11:59From that
11:59But I still maintain
12:00Down to us as a team
12:01Not done a good enough job
12:03Carlos through
12:03Into Q2 then
12:04What can you realistically
12:06Hope to get out of this
12:08A couple of positions
12:09From where we are
12:10Q3 is
12:11I'd love it to be the case
12:12But we'd need
12:13Somewhat of a miracle
12:14At this point
12:15Okay look
12:16James Vals
12:16Thank you so much
12:17For that
12:18We'll check in with you
12:19Hopefully at the end
12:20Of Q2
12:21And see where signs
12:23Can get to
12:23But
12:24It's tough
12:25You can hear it
12:26In his voice
12:26Can't you Martin
12:26It's been a tough weekend
12:28For Williams
12:29It is
12:29Yeah
12:30It's been a tough season
12:31Hasn't it
12:31Quite large
12:33They've got to get
12:34Some weight out of the car
12:35They know
12:35I mean this is a chassis circuit
12:37And
12:38So clearly
12:39The chassis is not
12:40The aero
12:41And the repeatability
12:43Of all of the tools
12:44And devices they've got
12:45So there's just work to do
12:47Quite clearly
12:48But
12:49They've got the Mercedes
12:50Power unit in the back
12:51Which obviously we know
12:51Is very good
12:53But nowhere near as worrying
12:55As it is for Aston Martin
12:56Who are
12:57On the back row
12:58A second off
12:59The penultimate
13:01Row at the back there
13:03So
13:03They're really hurting
13:04For pace
13:05And Fernando Alonso
13:06Plumb last
13:08Which is really sad
13:09To talk about
13:10It certainly is
13:12For Lance Stroll
13:13Though
13:13Who qualifies
13:14In P21
13:15That's the
13:16First time he's out
13:17Qualified Alonso
13:18Since the
13:192024
13:20British Grand Prix
13:22Ending Alonso's
13:2342
13:24Race streak
13:25So
13:26I know it's not much
13:27To write home about
13:28It's small crumbs
13:29For Lance Stroll
13:30But it might be noted
13:31On his side of the garage
13:33He has out qualified him
13:34In some sprint races
13:35If I'm not mistaken
13:36Here and there
13:38But
13:38Ted has news for us
13:39Thank you Martin
13:41Yes a couple of things
13:41From down here
13:42As Valtteri Bottas
13:43Makes the sad walk
13:45Down to the away station
13:46After being knocked out
13:47Got to say
13:48Well done to Sergio Perez
13:49I mean
13:50But for a couple of mistakes
13:51In Monaco
13:52Might have scored a point
13:53For Cadillac
13:54But he was only a tenth
13:55Behind
13:55Behind Alex Albon's Williams
13:57Bearing in mind
13:58I know of course
13:59Problems for the Williams
14:00But still
14:01Solid progress
14:02Being made
14:03At Cadillac
14:04And did you clock
14:05The few
14:06We got away
14:07With that one
14:07Moments
14:08For Gabriel
14:09Bortoletto
14:10And Liam Lawson
14:11Not going out
14:12At the end
14:13Trusting their first laps
14:14In Q1
14:15Staying in the garage
14:17Like I thought
14:18Many would go out
14:19But they stayed in
14:20They both tumbled down
14:22To 14th and 15th
14:24Respectively
14:24For Bortoletto
14:25And Lawson
14:25But they got away with it
14:27So few moments
14:29For them
14:30Down at Audi
14:31And Arby
14:32Yeah
14:33Fortune favours the brave
14:34Or makes you look
14:35Really really silly
14:35Doesn't it
14:36In qualifying
14:36Especially on a track
14:37That's evolving
14:38But Audi will be
14:40Thoroughly satisfied
14:41With Nico HĂŒlkenberg's
14:42P5
14:43Up there
14:43That was an exceptional
14:44Yeah
14:45Wasn't it
14:45And he's put in
14:46Some cracking laps
14:47And we know
14:47He's a great qualifier
14:48Nico
14:48And
14:49Deserving I think
14:51Of starting inside
14:52The top 10
14:53Had a remarkable race
14:54Here last year
14:55Qualified
14:56Or best qualifying
14:57Here of 7th
14:5815th for him last year
14:59But went on
15:00To finish inside
15:02The top 5
15:03Not as stellar
15:04As Q2 has begun
15:05But nobody
15:06Stepping out
15:07Of their garages
15:08Just yet
15:08Stellar for
15:09Oli Behrman
15:11To get himself up
15:12Into 11th
15:12At the close of that
15:13Not such the case
15:14For Esteban Ocon
15:15Who finds himself out
15:16And once again
15:17Behind his teammate
15:18Behrman
15:20All calm
15:21And quiet
15:23The drivers
15:24Looking at the data
15:25Looking at the
15:26Squiggly lines
15:27For steering
15:28And brake
15:29And throttle
15:29And all sorts
15:30Of other aspects
15:32Comparing
15:33Their own laps
15:34Against others
15:34Comparing against
15:35Their teammate
15:36Maybe looking
15:36A bit of on board
15:37Just anything
15:38They can learn
15:39As you can see
15:40Oscar Piastri
15:41Looking at that
15:41Information
16:11Now
16:12There's no such
16:13Thing as the
16:13Perfect lap
16:14There's always
16:15Time to be found
16:16Were you one
16:17To sit with your eyes
16:18Closed
16:18And visualise
16:19A lap
16:20A perfect lap
16:21Occasionally
16:23Occasionally
16:23I got bored
16:24Halfway around
16:25Rather do it
16:26For real
16:26Yeah
16:27It's
16:27Well we didn't have
16:30Anything like the
16:30Data
16:31Well yeah
16:31So
16:32All you had
16:33Was shutting your eyes
16:34Yeah
16:34There was one button
16:35On the steering wheel
16:35For a radio
16:36That didn't often work
16:38So
16:39They've got that
16:40They've got that
16:41Information
16:42They've got that
16:42Knowledge
16:43So they might as well
16:44Use it
16:44In an ongoing way
16:46Right
16:47Action in the pit lane
16:48Oscar Piastri
16:49Heads out into the sunlight
16:51Visor down
16:52Last year's pole sitter
16:53Trying to replicate that
16:55No pole positions
16:57For a Grand Prix
16:58So far
16:59For McLaren
17:00It's gone the way
17:01Of Mercedes
17:01Kimi Antonelli
17:02Will be looking
17:03For a fifth pole position
17:05Can George Russell
17:06Who's looked quick
17:07Get a third pole position
17:08That will be all to come
17:09Once we get to Q3
17:10But
17:11We've got to get there first
17:12And the battle
17:13To get inside
17:14The top ten
17:15For that shootout
17:17Commences
17:17Just over 12 minutes
17:19Left on the clock
17:20As they
17:20Try and
17:21Navigate their way
17:23In the most expensive
17:24Traffic jam
17:24In the world
17:25And
17:27Almost cruel
17:28Out on circuit
17:29So what they're trying
17:29To do here Martin
17:30Is they're trying to
17:31Find themselves
17:31A suitable gap
17:32On track
17:33Absolutely
17:34Because here
17:35With their
17:35High speed corners
17:36You don't want to be
17:37Ideally
17:38You don't want to be
17:39Within five or six seconds
17:40Of the car in front
17:41And more
17:42If you can
17:43Because
17:43It's a little bit like
17:46An airfield
17:46If you're in a small plane
17:47You don't take off
17:48Immediately after a big plane
17:49Is taken off
17:50Because of the turbulence
17:51That's still sitting around
17:52So it's no different
17:54So it's no different
17:55When you're relying on the air
17:56To push your car
17:58Into the ground
17:58Rather than lift your plane
17:59Into the sky
18:00So it doesn't matter
18:01On slower circuits
18:03In slower corners
18:04But you do not want to be
18:06Driving into disturbed air
18:07If you can help it
18:09Lewis Hamilton
18:11Doing exactly that
18:12Making a gap
18:13Inside the pit lane
18:14Used to see this
18:14All happen out on track
18:15But that
18:16Ended up being more clunky
18:17So they decided to do it
18:18As they
18:18Creep out of the pit lane
18:21Instead
18:21But we'll have 16 runners
18:23Left in this Q2 session
18:25Having lost
18:26Esteban Ocon
18:27Alex Albon
18:28Sergio Perez
18:29Valtteri Bottas
18:30Lance Stroll
18:31And Fernando Alonso
18:32In Q1
18:34And the first lap's beginning
18:35Gasly coming around
18:36The final corner now
18:37And this is where
18:39You can really
18:39Find yourself scuppered
18:41As the pit lane exit
18:42Feeds just before the turn in
18:44In for that right hander
18:46Of turn number one
18:47And Gasly
18:47Manages to get there
18:49And has a clear view
18:50You can see the incredible
18:51Heat haze
18:52Couldn't you
18:52Go down the pit straight
18:53It's still at 49.6 degrees
18:56Out there
18:56The track surface temperature
18:57And your tyres are rolling
18:59Over that
19:00And just gathering heat
19:01As well as the energy
19:03That's transmitted through them
19:05And the work they're doing
19:06The lateral
19:06The G-force
19:07And what have you
19:08Downhill braking
19:09Then into five
19:10A lot of understir
19:11You can see the front of the car
19:12Really was a bit reluctant
19:14There
19:14And that ran him wide
19:15Through the exit
19:16So then you're
19:17A few tenths of a second
19:19Later
19:20Getting on the power
19:21Compared to cars
19:22That might be on the front
19:23Row of the grid
19:25And a reasonable lift
19:27There back end
19:28Trying to step out
19:29On him
19:29Bring it to the right hand side
19:31Boom
19:31Hit the brakes
19:33And feed the nose in
19:35And again
19:36And again it's still
19:36Just a little bit of understir
19:38The long right hander
19:40Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
19:42And then go
19:43And then
19:44The two mighty final corners
19:48Particularly the last one
19:49I'm hearing them all do
19:50A little downshift
19:51On the apex
19:51Of that
19:52And make sure you don't go
19:54Over the track limits
19:55And Gasly then
19:56A 17.6
19:58So that is
19:591.1 seconds slower
20:02Than his Q1 time
20:04So the track then
20:06Might well be gearing up
20:07As Colopinto
20:08Finds time
20:09In the final sector
20:10And goes fastest
20:11A 1.17.3
20:12Max Verstappen though
20:14Flying on his
20:14First flying lap
20:16Fastest of anybody
20:17For HĂŒlkenberg
20:17In the final sector
20:18He goes to the top
20:20Of the times
20:20Expect to see
20:21The times tumble
20:23Over the course
20:23Of this track action
20:26Verstappen will be next
20:27Across the line
20:28Finds one
20:29Nearly one and a half seconds
20:30To go fastest
20:32But another reminder
20:33We'll be looking
20:34To eliminate the slowest
20:35Six drivers
20:36From this session
20:37The racing bulls
20:38Continue to look strong
20:39Limblad just put it up
20:40Into second
20:41And what about
20:42Charles Leclerc
20:43And Ferrari
20:44New brakes
20:45Or trialing
20:46A new brake set up
20:47For this weekend
20:48Not happy with his
20:49Brembo brakes
20:50Moved over to what
20:51His teammate uses
20:51Carbon industry
20:52Still with the
20:53Brembo calipers
20:54But just trying to get
20:55A different feel
20:56On the brakes
20:56More bite
20:57A sharper intake
20:59For Charles Leclerc
21:00Round the final corner
21:01Verstappen is fastest
21:03Hadjar joins him up there
21:04But they both get demoted
21:06As Leclerc finds
21:06Two tenths of a second
21:07To go fastest
21:08Top four
21:09All on brand new tyres
21:11Top five that is now
21:13And make that top six
21:14With Antonelli
21:15So when you get down
21:16To Colopinto
21:17Gasly
21:17And Sainz
21:18They were all on
21:19Used tyres
21:20Hence
21:20And that's how much
21:21They lost
21:21From one run to the other
21:22On the same set of tyres
21:23Over a second
21:24Hamilton half a tenth down
21:26Through the middle sector
21:27On his teammate
21:27Charles Leclerc
21:28Russell will cross the line
21:29Before him
21:30And just a short meter run
21:32For the British driver
21:33Sits third
21:34In the drivers championship
21:35Now half a tenth
21:36Of a second clear
21:37Of Russell
21:38We did think
21:39We did think it might be tight
21:40Coming into this weekend
21:41And the competitive order
21:43Certainly seems to be
21:44Heading that way
21:45In this Q2 session
21:47Hamilton up to fourth
21:48As he crosses the line
21:49Oscar Piastri
21:50Disappointing
21:51Down in ninth
21:52What's going on
21:53At McLaren
21:53What is going on
21:55That's two
21:57Disappointing laps
21:58Of Piastri
21:59What is Norris
22:00Going to deliver here
22:02Two personal best
22:03But eighth
22:05Eighth and tenth
22:06For McLaren
22:07That is strange
22:09Because they were
22:09The favourites
22:10Going into this
22:11Qualifying
22:12Behind Red Bull
22:13And behind the
22:14Racing Bulls
22:15For Norris
22:16And Piastri
22:17That is curious
22:18We know they were
22:19Bringing back
22:20And trialling
22:21A modified version
22:22Of that front wing
22:23For this weekend
22:24That we saw appear
22:24A few races ago
22:26In Canada
22:26Haven't been quite happy
22:27With that
22:27Getting the tweaks
22:28Of it right
22:29But conversely
22:31On the other side
22:31George Russell
22:32Continues to show
22:33Good form
22:34After the first
22:34Runs of this session
22:36Quickest
22:36By just half a tenth
22:37Of a second
22:38From the Ferrari
22:38Of Charles Leclerc
22:39Antonelli right up
22:40There as well
22:41And the top four
22:42Separated by less
22:43Than two tenths
22:44Of a second
22:45And there you can see
22:46Shock horror
22:47Leclerc pretty good
22:48In the corners
22:49And stronger
22:50In the corners
22:51And that's comparing
22:51To Hamilton as well
22:52Actually but Hamilton
22:53Finding better
22:54Straight line speed
22:55In that Ferrari
22:57And just losing
22:58Out though
22:59Overall when it comes
23:00To time
23:01In fourth
23:02Ahead of the two
23:03Red Bulls
23:03At risk then
23:04At the moment
23:05It's the two
23:06Audis down there
23:07Nico HĂŒlkenberg
23:07Without a time
23:08On the board
23:09In fact he had his
23:10Lap time deleted
23:11For track limits
23:12Which is something
23:13We will be needing
23:14To keep an eye out
23:15Throughout the course
23:15Of qualifying
23:16So rear locking
23:18Rear axle
23:19Rear wheels
23:19So when he's hitting
23:20The brakes
23:21Feels like he's
23:21Pulling the handbrake
23:22On so Antonelli
23:23On a 15-3
23:25Let's call it
23:26Has been told
23:26He's safe
23:27I'll tell you
23:28Who's not safe
23:29Neither Norris
23:30Nor Piastri
23:31For McLaren
23:32I also wonder
23:33McLaren
23:34Used tyres
23:34Could be the answer
23:36For those disappointing
23:38Opening laps
23:39Indeed
23:40But still
23:41Nonetheless
23:41It's still
23:42I expected
23:43A better lap time
23:45From them
23:45Anyway
23:45Let's see what they do
23:46When they
23:47When they bolt them all on
23:49And give it
23:50Full beans
23:52Let's have a look
23:53Here
23:53What happened to
23:54Lander
23:54Norris
23:54Coming into
23:55Turn
23:5510
24:04Looked alright
24:04To be honest
24:05Does that mean
24:06It's moving around
24:06Plenty
24:07Couple of twitches
24:08On the steering wheel
24:09Does emphasise
24:10The rather loose
24:11Rear end
24:12For McLaren
24:15But able to
24:16Thread it through
24:17That tricky sector
24:19That is the part
24:19Where your tyres
24:20Will be screaming
24:21For life
24:22Come the end
24:22Of these 4km
24:24This 4.6km
24:26Circuit
24:27With just under
24:295 minutes left
24:30To run then
24:31Portoletto
24:31In his Audi
24:32Colopinto
24:33In the Alpine
24:34Behrman
24:34In the Haas
24:35Gasly
24:35In the other Alpines
24:36Sainz
24:37In the Williams
24:37And HĂŒlkenberg
24:38With his first lap time
24:39Deleted
24:40All needing
24:41To very much
24:42Go again
24:42And try and see
24:44If they can squeeze
24:44Anything out
24:45Of their machinery
24:46To find themselves
24:47In the top 10 shootout
24:48And McLaren will be fine
24:49When they put their new tyres on
24:50But they've got to get
24:51That lap in then
24:52They've got to hope
24:52There's not a yellow
24:53Or a red flag
24:54Or whatever
24:55And here they
24:56Trundle out
24:57Pretty much
24:58Out of sequence really
25:00Isn't it
25:00They want to get out
25:00And find some clear air
25:02With their fresh tyres
25:03And Ted is down there
25:04Yeah so there we go
25:06With the
25:06With the brand new tyres
25:08Going out
25:09On the McLarens
25:10They can
25:10And will
25:11Find the pace
25:12What they also need
25:13To be mindful of
25:14Is that any new tyres
25:16Given that it might be
25:17A three
25:18Stop race tomorrow
25:19Of any compound
25:20Might be useful
25:22So yeah
25:23That's the
25:24That's what all the teams
25:25Will be looking at
25:26All the teams
25:27Will be looking
25:27At what the McLarens
25:29Will be doing
25:29But I think everybody
25:30From probably
25:32Verstappen upwards
25:33That is Russell
25:34Leclerc
25:34Antonelli
25:35Hamilton
25:35And Verstappen
25:36Will be looking at
25:37Staying in the garage
25:38At the moment
25:39Antonelli
25:40Certainly says
25:41He's safe
25:42He's safe
25:42His engineers
25:42Says he's safe
25:43In P3
25:44He's staying
25:44In the garage
25:45Thanks Ted
25:46What's interesting
25:47Just after those
25:48First laps
25:48Fastest
25:49Fastest first sector
25:50Is Max Verstappen
25:51Kimi Antonelli
25:52Quickest
25:53In the middle sector
25:54Charles Leclerc
25:55Fastest in the final sector
25:57But George Russell
25:58Was the one
25:58Who strung it all together
25:59To be able to
26:00Set the benchmark time
26:02That they all now
26:03Have to try and get close to
26:06Yeah it's all
26:06It's quite interesting
26:07Isn't it
26:08How the sectors unfold
26:09The middle sector
26:10Is half a minute long
26:11A lot of corners in there
26:12As we talked about
26:14You don't always want
26:15To be fastest
26:16In the first sector
26:17You want the tyres
26:17With you towards the end
26:18Some are managing
26:19To get that
26:21Just about spot on
26:22Now
26:23What have McLaren
26:24Got
26:25They haven't really
26:25They've been complaining
26:26On the radio
26:26Real looking
26:27But this should give us
26:29Now
26:29The absolute
26:30True pace
26:32Of McLaren
26:33And it's two drivers
26:34We're about to find out
26:35In the next 75 seconds
26:39Oscar Piastri then
26:40Bit of clear road
26:42Ahead of him
26:42That's Portoletto
26:43Just coming out
26:44Of the pits
26:45And his next bit
26:46Of traffic
26:47Will be Behrman
26:47Coming through
26:48Turn three
26:49So
26:51Starting to get
26:52Busier out on track
26:53As Piastri and Norris
26:54Both begin their
26:55Flying laps
26:56Norris just coming through
26:57Turn two
26:58As you can see now
26:59In picture in picture
27:00On the left hand side
27:00Of your screen
27:01He's a tenth
27:02Tenth to two tens
27:04Off the pace
27:05In the first sector
27:06Oscar Piastri
27:07And I got to the apex
27:09Nicely in five
27:10Which means he can get
27:11On the throttle
27:11Early
27:12Staying on board
27:14Hopefully
27:15Tip the nose in early
27:17And as soon as you
27:18Feel it grip up
27:19Pile the throttle on
27:20Flicked it into turn nine
27:23Keeps it within
27:24The track limit
27:25Over to the right hand side
27:27And you can see it
27:27Harvesting battery power
27:29There
27:29Towards the end
27:31Of that straight
27:31Wrestling the car
27:32Through the exit
27:34Of turn ten
27:34So struggling already
27:36With mechanical rear grip
27:38From those tyres
27:39As he now heads
27:41Down the hill
27:42And one decision
27:44To make
27:44How and when
27:46To tip it in
27:47And how fast
27:47He can take through
27:48That final corner
27:49Opened his rear wing
27:50Short drive
27:51To the line
27:52And it's still only
27:53P6
27:54Behind Verstappen as well
27:56What about team mate
27:57Norris
27:58Better from Norris
27:59Fastest in the final sector
28:01Sees him up
28:02Into the top four
28:04As Nico HĂŒlkenberg
28:05Gets a black and white flag
28:06For driving unnecessarily
28:07Slowly
28:08So he's been warned
28:09And he
28:09Is under pressure here
28:10Nico HĂŒlkenberg
28:11To get a lap time
28:12On the board
28:13Having had his first
28:14Deleted for track limits
28:16Final minute now
28:17Ensues
28:17Carlos Sainz
28:18Finds time
28:19But not enough
28:20Still stays down
28:21In 15th
28:22Gasly
28:23Behrman
28:23Colopinto
28:24Bortoleto
28:25All out there again
28:26Along with the two
28:27Racing Bulls
28:28Isaac Hadjar
28:29Feels safe
28:30In 8th spot
28:32He's still in the pit lane
28:33The two McLarens
28:34Have done their laps
28:35Lawson
28:36Personal best
28:37In the first
28:37And middle sectors
28:39This is going to be
28:39A tight battle
28:40For those midfield runners
28:41In the closing stages
28:42Of this Q2
28:43That car looks great
28:44Doesn't it
28:45What a wonderful livery
28:46Looks even better
28:47When you're out on track
28:48But it'll look
28:49Even better
28:50If it's quick
28:51And the stopwatch
28:52Never lies in that respect
28:53As he now
28:54Heads for the line
28:55World Cup football
28:57On the alloys
28:57Of that Racing Bulls
28:59Charging it forward
29:00Across the line
29:00Good lap from Lawson
29:01Who continues
29:02A really strong season
29:03So far
29:04For the young Kiwi
29:05Up into 8th spot
29:07Nika Hulkenberg
29:07Nika Hulkenberg then
29:08With a lap on the board
29:09And just about enough
29:11Right now
29:12Inside the top 10
29:13Will he finally get
29:14That Q3 start
29:15This year
29:16Or will Behrman
29:17Bortoleto
29:17Or Gasly
29:18Deny him
29:19Lindblad's not going to
29:20Go through
29:49He bails out of it
29:50To out-qualify his teammates
29:52But not enough to go through
29:54Inside the top 10
29:55Yeah both around
29:561 minute 16.2
29:58So it tells you
29:59They're kind of getting
30:00Your two drivers
30:01Are getting
30:01The most
30:02Out of it
30:03At the moment
30:04For what they've got
30:05But
30:07If the McLaren drivers
30:09Particularly Oscar Piastri
30:10Didn't have crash helmets
30:11On
30:11They'd be scratching
30:12Their heads
30:12Wondering
30:13Where the pace
30:14Has gone to
30:15But when you look
30:16Into the top 10
30:17It's kind of
30:19As expected
30:20Really isn't it
30:21Lindblad we thought
30:21Might be in there
30:22Hulkenberg pulls
30:23A lap out of the bag
30:24Hachar gets the second
30:25Red Bull
30:26And Liam Lawson
30:27Is on a rich
30:28Vein of form
30:29Isn't he
30:31Oh that's so fast
30:32So fast
30:38Yeah Gasly
30:40Not happy
30:41With that one
30:42Both Alpines
30:43Out of
30:44Q2
30:46In what was a pretty
30:47Frantic end of the session
30:48Out go
30:49Arvid Lindblad
30:50Bortoleto
30:50Colopinto
30:51Gasly
30:52Behrman
30:52And Sainz
31:02Before we went to the break
31:03Martin Brundle
31:04Was asking
31:04Where has the McLaren pace gone
31:06Especially Oscar Piastri
31:07Well let's try and answer that
31:08And take a look
31:09Look at his lap here
31:10From Q2
31:11The first sector of the lap
31:13Looks okay
31:13Using lots of width there
31:15Doesn't look like he quite carried
31:16The same amount of speed
31:18Around turn three
31:19As we've seen from some other people
31:21Now at turn four
31:22I think he would have picked up
31:24A little bit of turbulent air
31:25Coming off that car
31:27In front of him
31:28Even though it did stay to the right
31:30As it came around the corner
31:32He would have just cost himself
31:34A little bit of time
31:34Into five
31:36Piastri chooses to really decelerate the car
31:38Feeling like he needs
31:39An extra downshift
31:40To A get the turbo spinning
31:42Get it charged up
31:43For the battery
31:43But also I think
31:44To rotate the car
31:45Seven
31:46The front end
31:46Doesn't quite bite
31:47Into the apex
31:48As well as we've seen
31:50The Mercedes
31:51Or certainly the Ferrari
31:52Which looks very good
31:53Through turn seven
31:54Up through nine
31:56Looks okay
31:56And then we get into
31:58The final sector of the lap
32:00And everyone of course
32:01Is struggling for grip
32:02But I just don't feel
32:05Like Oscar's got the confidence
32:07To attack the corners
32:08As well as he would like
32:10And you can just see
32:11It's slightly wide
32:13In the earlier path
32:14In the middle sector
32:15Slightly wider
32:16Some of those apexes
32:17And it's just not quite
32:19Within that car
32:21In terms of
32:22The rear end grip
32:24And then
32:24As the lap unfolds
32:26The overall grip
32:27Just doesn't seem to be there
32:28For them to attack
32:29The entries of the corners
32:30Back to you
32:31Thanks Karun
32:31Yeah for the two McLarens
32:33Piastri managed to go through
32:35In seventh
32:36Lando Norris
32:37Fared a little better
32:38In fourth
32:38A reminder then
32:39Of who we've just lost
32:41From Q2
32:42Arvid Lindblad
32:44Down in 11th
32:45Misses out on Q3
32:47By just over half a tenth
32:48Of a second
32:48Gabriel Bortoletto
32:49In the Audi
32:50Right behind him
32:51And that's actually
32:52The highest start
32:53For the Brazilian
32:54Since Suzuka
32:55Franco Colopinto
32:56Out qualifies Gasly
32:57For the third time
32:58This season
32:59With Gasly down in P14
33:01Oli Behrman
33:02In P15
33:03Haas
33:03Still not having a Q3
33:05Appearance in Barcelona
33:06Since 2023
33:07And Carlos Sainz
33:09Down in 16th
33:11Rather compounding
33:12Williams' woes
33:12This weekend
33:13Neither Sainz
33:14Or Alonso
33:14Making it into the top 15
33:16At their home circuit
33:17Top six were covered
33:19By quarter of a second
33:20So we're not talking much
33:21Lando Norris in four
33:23This is saying
33:24Where's McLaren's pace
33:24They were actually
33:26Point one four of a second
33:28Off being fastest
33:29But it matters
33:31It matters
33:31In form one
33:32It matters around here
33:33So it's doable
33:34But we've got the usual
33:36Suspects up there now
33:37With two Merck's
33:39Two McLaren's
33:41And of course
33:42Two Red Bulls
33:44And Liam Lawson
33:46Keeping a very close eye
33:47On them
33:47Two Ferraris
33:48Of course
33:48Well the surprise
33:49Might be
33:50Those Ferraris
33:51Which we've not seen
33:52Much from so far
33:53This weekend
33:54But suddenly
33:55Charles Leclerc
33:56Is right up there
33:56In second
33:57And in the battle
33:58For pole
33:59Agree
34:00Yeah
34:00They're right in there
34:02So
34:03I think we've got
34:04Yeah
34:05We've got at least
34:06A six way shoot out
34:07For pole
34:08If not seven
34:10I think you're going to
34:10I want to stay tuned
34:11For this one
34:12As the clock
34:13Comes on
34:13The green lights
34:14Illuminates
34:15At the end
34:16Of the pit lane
34:17No mad rush
34:18To get out on track
34:18Ten cars
34:19Will take to the session
34:21We'll have those
34:22Two Mercedes
34:22Of Russell
34:23And Antonelli
34:24The two Ferraris
34:25Of Leclerc
34:26And Hamilton
34:26The sole remaining
34:28Audi
34:28Of Nico HĂŒlkenberg
34:29His first Q3
34:30Of the year
34:31Two Red Bulls
34:32Verstappen
34:33And Hadjar
34:33The two McLarens
34:35Of Lando Norris
34:36And Oscar Piastri
34:37And the racing bulls
34:39Of Liam Lawson
34:41Or scrapping it out
34:42Could be a good fight
34:44Up and down the field
34:44Here
34:45Not expecting the likes
34:45Of Lawson and HĂŒlkenberg
34:46To be in the fight
34:47For pole
34:47But that would be
34:48A really intense baffle
34:49For the lower ends
34:50Of the top ten
34:51And who wins out
34:51In the best of the rest
34:53What about Lewis Hamilton
34:54We just saw there
34:55Can he find
34:56A little bit more
34:57About a couple of tenths down
34:58Compared to his teammates
34:59So far throughout this qualifying
35:01And George Russell
35:02Well he certainly
35:03Needs to strike back
35:04After a run
35:05Of success
35:07And form for his teammate
35:09Kimi Antonelli
35:09Pole position this afternoon
35:11In Barcelona
35:11For Russell
35:12Would go a long way
35:13In setting him up
35:14For victory
35:15On Sunday
35:16But we're just over ten minutes
35:18From finding out then
35:19Who will line up on pole
35:21For the Barcelona
35:22In the Catalunya Grand Prix
35:23As Lando Norris
35:24Heads out into the sun
35:25Down the pit lane
35:27And onto the track
35:28You can see the rip-offs
35:30The tear-offs
35:30On his visor
35:31There seem to be a lot of them
35:32I never used to like
35:33I'm sure they're better quality now
35:34But too many of those
35:36To look through
35:36On my visor
35:38Especially if you've got
35:39A bit of a tint
35:39Tint on there as well
35:41But obviously
35:41They can come off
35:42Should they get flies
35:44Or bits of rubber
35:45Or just general detritus
35:47On your visor
35:49But you can do that
35:51In the pits as well
35:52In the garage
35:53In qualifying
35:55Qualifying
35:56Crucial here
35:57When you look at the stats
35:5925 out of 35
36:00Of the wins here
36:01Have come from pole position
36:03In fact only three
36:04Of the races held
36:06Here at this track
36:07Have not been won
36:08From the front row
36:10But the difference
36:11This weekend
36:12Compared to something
36:13Like a Monaco last week
36:14Is that you can
36:15Overtake here
36:16And as we arrive
36:17At a more traditional circuit
36:19One that everybody
36:19Knows like the back
36:20Of their hands
36:21From the races
36:22We've had so far
36:22This year
36:23We've seen racing
36:24We've seen overtaking
36:25Whether it's aided
36:26Through the electrical
36:26Output or not
36:27We will get some
36:28Overtaking on Sunday
36:29I think so
36:30Down into turn one
36:31It's such a long pit
36:32Straight and you can
36:33Follow reasonably well
36:34Out of the last corner
36:35So I'm expecting
36:37The overtake mode
36:38To be pretty powerful
36:40Tomorrow
36:40Track limits
36:41Will be something
36:41To watch as well
36:42So far
36:43They've all actually
36:43Been pretty good
36:44Nico Holcomode
36:45The only one
36:46Who got pinged
36:46In Q2
36:47And especially
36:48Being watched
36:48In the final corner
36:50If you run out
36:50Wide there
36:51At turn 14
36:52It not only
36:52Invalidates
36:53The lap that you're on
36:54But you can't
36:55Carry on for another
36:55Lap either
36:56So then
36:56It just puts you
36:58On the back foot
36:58But how often
37:00Do we see in this
37:00Final part in qualifying
37:01So important
37:03To get that
37:04First lap on the board
37:05A yellow flag
37:06A red flag
37:07Can so easily
37:08Come out
37:08When the stakes
37:09Are at this high
37:10The pressure rises
37:11As we set the top ten
37:13For the Barcelona
37:14Catalunya Grand Prix
37:15Important to get that
37:16Benchmark lap time
37:17In as Verstappen
37:19Heads down into turn one
37:20Through the right hander
37:21And now uphill
37:22Long right hander
37:24Of turn three
37:24Beckons
37:25The tyres
37:25Already start to feel it
37:27The soft tyre in particular
37:28With temperatures
37:29Still high
37:30Track temperature
37:30Just below 50 degrees
37:32Air temperature
37:32At a steady 31
37:35So Max has done a 21.9
37:37First sector
37:38Ballpark
37:39That one
37:40And we're looking for a
37:4130.3 middle sector
37:43Oscar Piastri
37:44Also done a 21.9
37:46But a slightly faster
37:47And that's why
37:48His line there
37:50Is magenta
37:51We like to impress ourselves
37:52With purple
37:53You could call it as well
37:54Couldn't you
37:55But
37:56This is it then
37:57So fresh tyres
37:59On all the front runners
38:00Lawson out on used tyres
38:02At the moment
38:03But what has
38:04Max Verstappen got
38:05He's done a
38:0630.5 middle sector
38:08So again
38:09Just missing
38:10A tenth or two
38:11Had a Kimi Antonelli
38:12On the inside
38:13At turn ten
38:14Not really anywhere
38:15Antonelli could go
38:16It just might have
38:17Unsettled him
38:18Yellow flag
38:19Out on track
38:21We'll see if we find out
38:22Who that is
38:22Or if it goes away
38:23It's Charles Leclerc
38:24As he stopped out
38:25On track somewhere
38:26Off track
38:26It is Charles Leclerc
38:28Verstappen crosses the line
38:29It doesn't affect
38:30His lap
38:30And he manages
38:32To complete it
38:32Goes fast
38:33As Piastri
38:34Immediately finds time
38:35Leclerc has crashed
38:36We're hearing
38:37Red flag
38:37We can't see
38:38It looks like
38:38It's on the exit
38:39Of turn four
38:40And the approach
38:41To turn five
38:42Piastri just got through
38:44And there
38:45Is the damage
38:46For Charles Leclerc
38:47A crash in Monaco
38:48On Sunday
38:49A crash a week later
38:51In Barcelona
38:51On a Saturday
38:53And that is a heavy crash
38:54To the front wing
38:55Has gone
38:56Rooted in the gravel
38:58Out of the car
38:59And out of the session
39:00Medical car deployed
39:02Meaning he's hit the wall
39:03At greater than 25G
39:06And that's an unusual
39:08Place to go off
39:09Quite so early
39:11In the corner
39:11Quite so hard
39:13We'll have a look
39:14At that
39:14But that's a huge
39:15Impact there
39:16For Charles Leclerc
39:18Piastri crept over the line
39:19So did Verstappen
39:21Norris did not
39:23So that's a set
39:24Of tyres wasted
39:25Here we go
39:33Yeah so
39:35So it started to slide
39:36Got a little bit wide
39:37It started to slide
39:38He turned into the slide
39:40And then it
39:41And then it gripped up
39:42And just took him
39:43Where the steering wheel
39:44Was pointing
39:45As he was counter steering
39:46The slide
39:47Here we go
39:48It's all fine fine fine
39:50Starts to move a bit
39:51Hits the throttle too hard
39:52Because he's on the
39:53Dirty side of the track
39:54Applies opposite lock
39:56To correct the slide
39:57Front bites
39:58And boom
39:59Straight into the wall
40:00He was on for a good
40:01First sector
40:02Up until that point
40:03As well
40:03With Charles Leclerc
40:04And a fairly heavy
40:06Whack
40:06Good to see him
40:07Walk away
40:08But you know
40:09He will be beating
40:10Himself up
40:11At that one
40:11And now that leaves
40:13Just one Ferrari
40:14In the game
40:15Having just been
40:15Chatting about their chances
40:17Particularly on the
40:18Faster side of the garage
40:19So far
40:19Which has been
40:20Charles Leclerc
40:21To battle it out
40:22For Paul
40:22So the clock stops
40:24In qualifying
40:25So there's plenty of time
40:26For other people
40:26To get a run
40:27Leclerc will almost
40:28Certainly start 10th
40:31Have we got some
40:32Damage in the tyre wall
40:34To sort out
40:35Or is it just
40:36The conveyor belt
40:37They can move
40:37Out of the way
40:38So we'll keep an eye
40:40On that
40:40As to how long
40:41It takes to
40:41Reset the racetrack
40:43And that's a cracking
40:45Time from Piastri
40:46A 15-1
40:48That's the quickest
40:49Time in qualifying
40:51Quickest in Q2
40:52Was Leclerc
40:54On a 15-2-8-1
40:55So Piastri
40:57A tenth faster
40:58With everything
40:59Turned up to 11
41:00And crucially
41:02He's got it in the bag
41:04Yeah Piastri was lucky
41:05There just
41:06As he crossed the line
41:07Red flag comes out
41:08And that rather
41:10Meant his teammate
41:11Landon Norris
41:11Did not get over the line
41:12Kimi Antonelli
41:14Was out there as well
41:15So only
41:16Piastri and Verstappen
41:17Setting a lap time
41:18A tenth and a half
41:19Apart
41:21And as you say
41:22Martin Klopp
41:23Stops in qualifying
41:24Rather than in practice
41:25The car's still out there
41:26Though but Marshall's
41:27Getting to work
41:28As the
41:29Diggers
41:30Get sent out
41:31To remove
41:32Look at the barrier there
41:34It's not too bad
41:35Is it
41:35It looks fairly intact
41:36Just sort of paint job
41:37It's really appetising
41:38Really isn't it
41:39Because the tyres
41:41They're old car tyres
41:42But they're put together
41:43In quite a specific way
41:45It's not quite
41:46As agricultural
41:47As it seems
41:48Those tyre barriers
41:50With the conveyor belt
41:52In front
41:53Ted what have you got
41:54For us
41:55Oh Martin
41:56I'm right next to Ferrari
41:57The gap
41:58I don't know if you can see
41:58Out in your commentary box
41:59The gap that I'm in
42:00Right next to the Ferrari garage
42:02Hamilton's side
42:03The garage
42:04Just getting on with it
42:05But I'm looking across
42:06To Fred Vasseur
42:07Talking to
42:08Matteo Togneoli
42:09And Diego Ioverno
42:11The top guys
42:11Next to him
42:12On the Ferrari pit
42:14Wall
42:14They can barely believe it
42:15Hamilton's been going well
42:17But Leclerc has clearly been
42:19The quicker Ferrari
42:20So far
42:21Not only
42:22Well in Q2
42:23Not in Q1
42:24Of course
42:24Lewis was quicker
42:25In Q1
42:26But in Q2
42:27And in free practice 3
42:29Leclerc was quicker
42:30So they can barely believe
42:32Maybe just
42:32High on confidence
42:34And just wanting to
42:35Keep the throttle planted
42:37And
42:38Yeah
42:39As you say
42:39Ambition
42:40Overtook adhesion
42:42And off
42:43So they can barely believe it
42:44On Leclerc's side of the garage
42:45I think you can see
42:46On your pictures now
42:47But Hamilton
42:48In there
42:49Ready to go again
42:50But yeah
42:51Let's see what they can
42:53Rescue from this
42:53Possibly
42:54Could have been
42:55Pole position
42:56That's how high
42:57They were over at Ferrari
42:58Charles has crashed a bit
43:00Over the course of time
43:01In Salva
43:02And at Ferrari
43:03Because he's
43:05Always on the limit
43:06Pays off
43:07Handsomely sometimes
43:08But
43:09It kind of started to go wrong
43:11Back end sliding
43:12And
43:13You know
43:13He tried to power his way
43:15Through it
43:15And gave it a lot of throttle
43:17And now he's on to the
43:18Slightly dirtier side
43:20Of the track
43:20That hasn't had anybody out there
43:21Unless they're on their way
43:22To an accident
43:24And that was it
43:25Yeah
43:25As I say
43:26You can't stay
43:27You turn into the slide
43:28Just like you would do
43:30On an icy road
43:30Basically
43:31And
43:33And as soon as
43:34The front tyres
43:34Found some purchase
43:36He went off in that direction
43:37His steering wheel
43:38Was pointing left
43:39And that's where it went
43:40And assuming that
43:42While everybody gets out
43:43And does a quicker lap time
43:45Which they will
43:45The player hasn't got one
43:46On the board
43:47He'll drop down to 10th
43:48And if there's no
43:49Any
43:49No penalties
43:50Or repair jobs
43:52Needed
43:53So he'll start there
43:54But from what we've seen
43:56Over the course
43:56Of the last couple of races
43:58Is that
43:59Advantage that Ferrari have
44:00With their quick start
44:02Seems to have been
44:03Negated now
44:03And is not
44:05As strong as it once was
44:06So he'll have to fight
44:07His way up through the pack
44:08When you rip the wishbones
44:09Off on the front suspension
44:10On that
44:11It can damage the chassis
44:12They make them very strong now
44:14The nose is designed
44:15To crumple up like that
44:16So hopefully
44:17He doesn't need a chassis
44:19Let's see
44:20Let's just
44:28Is that
44:29Just drive error
44:30Could it be something
44:31Down to
44:31We've seen
44:32Cars get
44:32Electrical surges
44:34When it's unexpected
44:35In a corner
44:36It's impossible to know
44:38These days
44:40I mean on the face of it
44:41It looks like
44:41He got a bit too
44:42Trigger happy
44:42On the throttle
44:43Got in
44:43Got in
44:44Got a little bit wide
44:45Thought he could save it
44:46And just kept
44:47Powering through it
44:50But you know
44:52We will
44:52We will never know
44:54Until they tell us
44:55Later in the day
44:56If they choose to tell us
44:57Whether he had
44:58Some kind of power surge
45:01I suspect not
45:02I suspect that's
45:03That's a driver problem
45:04But let's wait
45:05And see what we can find out
45:07Well
45:07Shame for Charles Leclerc
45:08Then
45:09It looks like
45:10Action down a Mercedes
45:11We might be getting
45:12Ready to roll
45:13We haven't
45:14Had a time
45:15Through yet
45:16For getting this
45:17Race back underway
45:19But the teams
45:20Might know something
45:21A little more than we do
45:22Or equally
45:22They want to get
45:23Track priority
45:24And get out
45:25In the pit lane
45:26And be ready
45:26For when that light
45:27Goes green again
45:28But you're also
45:28Concern when you have
45:29That kind of impact
45:30Whether there's any
45:31Any shock loading
45:32That goes through
45:33The power unit
45:35The transmission
45:36Or anything else
45:37On the car
45:39But that's a concern
45:41When you've had
45:42A shunt of that magnitude
45:43Right
45:44We're still waiting
45:45For a time
45:45But I think we're imminent
45:46Before we do
45:47I think we can head down
45:47To Karoon
45:48Is it the Skypad?
45:52Thanks Harry
45:52I thought I'd just
45:53Pull up the onboard
45:54Side by side
45:55To see the differences
45:56The one on the right
45:57Is the lap
45:57Where LeClaire crashed
45:58One on the left
45:59Is his previous one
46:00And there is a difference
46:01In the line
46:02Just watch as he
46:03He goes in
46:04So the one on the right
46:05He's gone in a bit tighter
46:06You can see
46:07So he's gone in a bit earlier
46:09Into the apex
46:11Tighter entry
46:12Means
46:12As Barton well knows
46:14At this stage
46:14Now he's understeering off
46:16Look at it
46:16It's quite different
46:17The line
46:17The one there
46:19He's sort of
46:20On that line
46:21Whereas now
46:23He's heading there
46:24So because he's
46:26Turned in a bit earlier
46:27He's then got this push
46:29And this understeer
46:30That's put him out
46:31Onto the dirtier part
46:32Of the track
46:32And then as he's
46:33Picked the power up
46:34It's lost
46:35It snapped
46:37You know
46:38The oversteer there
46:38So let's go back
46:39Because even on the one
46:40On the left
46:41You can see
46:42He's got a snap
46:43But he corrects it
46:44But because he's on
46:44The cleaner side
46:45Of the track
46:46It's okay
46:47Let's go back and forth
46:48A little bit
46:49To show you
46:49Let me know
46:50If you do have a start time
46:51And then I'll stop talking
46:52But quite clearly
46:53If you look at
46:55Where he is here
46:56Relative to the edge
46:57Of the track
46:59LeClaire is further out
47:00On the lap
47:01That he's crashed
47:01And that's what's happened
47:03There's the rear left tire
47:04I think he's on the dusty part
47:05So when he's put the power down
47:07Look
47:07In both of these
47:08Sort of freeze frames
47:09He's starting to get the oversteer
47:11But the problem is
47:13As you can see now
47:14He's got a full opposite lock
47:15He's on the dusty part
47:16And then it just keeps going
47:17So I think the reason
47:19He's ended up
47:20Having this moment
47:21And crashing
47:22Actually starts
47:23All the way back
47:24On the entry
47:26And that is
47:27Where the difference is
47:28If you just look at the angle there
47:31That shallower entry
47:33Has led to him
47:34Being slightly offline
47:35So when he picks up the power
47:36He's gone off
47:37And hit the barrier
47:38I'll throw it back to you
47:38Because I do believe
47:39You have a start time now
47:40Yeah, thanks Karun
47:40We'll get going
47:41In about 2 minutes and 20 seconds
47:43To be precise
47:44They're all out there
47:46In the pit lane
47:47But Charles LeClaire
47:48As we've seen
47:49So just a slightly different approach
47:51To the corner
47:52Wrong angle
47:53Upsets the entirety of it
47:55And the next thing you know
47:56The wall is your friend
47:57Well, you're always sliding
47:59In a car
48:00It doesn't always appear that way
48:30But, you know
48:31And it just shows you
48:32That now we've sort of
48:34Taken a lot of downforce
48:35Out of these cars
48:35And they've got so much torque
48:37So much twisting power
48:38From the oily bits
48:41And the battery
48:42That they'll light their rear tyres up
48:45In a heartbeat
48:46And, you know
48:48They're flighty
48:49They're really flighty cars
48:51How much, though
48:52Does this upset the rhythm
48:53Of the remaining drivers
48:55Only two were able
48:56To get a lap time in
48:58Before we got the red flag
48:59Oscar Piastri
49:00And Max Verstappen
49:02Piastri quickest
49:02With a 1.15.176
49:05Couple of tenths clear
49:06Of Max Verstappen
49:07George Russell
49:08Has looked incredibly quick
49:09Consistently
49:10Throughout the weekend
49:11But
49:12When we get this session restarted
49:14With nine cars
49:15Out on track
49:16All wanting to get a lap time in
49:18All wanting to find space
49:19On the board
49:20It can certainly open itself up
49:21To more mistakes
49:22More yellow flags
49:23More red flags
49:24And yet more
49:27Of your momentum
49:28Halted
49:29So it looks to me
49:30As if they
49:31The lap they had to have abandoned
49:33This keeping the same tyres on
49:36Those that have yet to get a lap
49:37On the board
49:38There's enough time
49:39To go out
49:40Do that
49:41And then quickly throw
49:42And they might even do
49:44Like racing style pit stops
49:45If they don't need to refuel
49:47So Oscar Piastri
49:49Then sitting there
49:50A with a great lap time
49:51On the board
49:52And B
49:53With a lap time on the board
49:54Only him and Verstappen
49:56Have done that
49:56Well we're only saying
49:57How important it is
49:58To get that benchmark time
49:59And he's still
50:00Sat in his garage
50:01So he's not in a rush
50:02To get out there
50:03As we will get the green line
50:04On at the end of the pit lane
50:06Ted
50:07There was a change of plan
50:09On the other side of the Ferrari garage
50:10With the one remaining car
50:11Of Lewis Hamilton
50:13The seven time world champion
50:14They had fitted the last set
50:17Of new softs
50:18And kept him in the garage
50:20While everybody else
50:21The Red Bulls
50:22The Mercedes
50:22You can see
50:22Who were queuing
50:23At the end of the pit lane
50:25And then something changed
50:27Whether Lewis said
50:28No I tell you what
50:28Let's do the same
50:29As everybody else
50:30Let's go out on the set
50:31We've already lightly used
50:33Do that
50:34Come in
50:34Do the racing pit stop
50:36And then go out
50:36Again
50:37They changed their mind
50:38And are now doing
50:39What everybody else is doing
50:41So they think they can
50:44Get a banker in
50:45And then see if he can get
50:46The problem is
50:48That you've done
50:49Your out lap
50:50And your prep
50:50And somebody like
50:52Lando Norris
50:53Was literally staring
50:54At the finish line
50:55When his lap
50:56Had to be thrown away
50:58With the red flag
50:58And then you do
51:00A very slow in lap
51:01But you've done
51:02The nine miles
51:03I was talking about
51:04Earlier on
51:04You've taken the tyres
51:06Up to their peak
51:07Grip and temperature
51:09So you've already had
51:10The life taken out
51:13Of those tyres
51:14But there's enough time
51:15To get a banker lap
51:17On
51:17Not just wasting
51:19Those tyres
51:19And by the way
51:20The fact that Leclerc is out
51:22Of course that doesn't mean
51:23They can just throw more
51:24Throw his tyres
51:25On Hamilton's car
51:27It doesn't work like that
51:28Right
51:29Cars out on track then
51:31The two Mercedes
51:33George Russell
51:34And Kimi Antonelli
51:35Antonelli who
51:36Missed out on FP1
51:37When we had the rookie drivers
51:38Has that put him
51:40A little bit off colour
51:40Throughout the rest
51:41Of the weekend
51:42Wasn't very happy
51:43In final practice either
51:44Couldn't get his final run in
51:46Complaining of traffic
51:47Throughout the lap
51:48And his engineer
51:49Pete Bonington
51:50Having to
51:50Have a bit of a stern word
51:52With him
51:52Over the radio
51:53But here we go then
51:54With just over
51:55Six and a half minutes
51:55On the clock
51:56Antonelli making his way
51:57Through turn three now
51:58And approaching
51:59The corner
52:00Where we saw Leclerc
52:01Find the barrier
52:0222-0
52:03For Antonelli
52:04An OK time
52:06For the first sector
52:07But he is on those
52:08Sort of
52:09Half used tyres
52:10Shall we call them
52:11George Russell
52:12Embarks on his
52:13First lap
52:14Now making his way
52:14Down the start
52:15Finish straight
52:15Into turns
52:16One and two
52:18So we'll get a direct
52:19Comparison between
52:20The two
52:21At the end
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