00:00It is made and win in Formula One was here at Silverstone driving for Ferrari.
00:04Carlos Sainz, he will know, as will Gabriel Bortoleto.
00:08It's very gusty on the start-finish line, and that's a lock-up already, and that's a lap ruined.
00:13Yeah, front tyres not up to temperature.
00:16Obviously, it slows you down a little bit, but gives you more downforce, more load, as we call it in
00:21F1.
00:22Into the Vale chicane we go.
00:24Esteban Ofcon has a time of a 1.31.6.
00:27That's the fastest time so far.
00:28Well, it wasn't until Oli crossed the line three-tenths up on his team-mate.
00:32Out of the braking zones on heavy braking circuits.
00:36Others feel a little bit dead in the beginning, and then they grow, and they gather braking capacity.
00:42So it's very much a driver preference.
00:45Lewis Hamilton crosses the line.
00:46We are into the 1.29, and he's behind his team-mate by a tenth of a second.
00:51The race has all got a yellow flag.
00:53Just trying to see if anyone's gone off the circuit, but I can't see it on our driver.
00:58At left field.
00:59Oh, dear.
01:01So has George Russell spun round, or has he had a crash?
01:04And I think he's had a crash here, George Russell.
01:06There he is, up against the barriers.
01:09That is George Russell, I think, out of qualifying here.
01:11That car is not going anywhere in a hurry.
01:15Piastri goes sixth fastest.
01:16These laps will count.
01:17Single yellow flag being waved currently.
01:20We'll watch to see what race control do about that.
01:23He's got to go.
01:23Kimi Antonelli's on a flyer.
01:24He has got it going.
01:26But if he can get back to the pits there, that will be a Herculean task for George Russell.
01:32Antonelli goes third fastest.
01:34Offline, hit the brakes, get all the gravel out of your ducks and side pods.
01:39So he's got enough time.
01:41For the front wing, Martin.
01:42Yeah, they can soon change that.
01:43He's got enough time to get back.
01:45Bolt will then be, it puts him on his back foot, a fresh set of tyres.
01:49Because I'm going to guess he gets into Brooklyn and gets on the throttle too hard.
01:59Oh my goodness, it's just actually understeered completely off the road.
02:04Front tyre wasn't.
02:06So what's happened there?
02:07And why is it his right part of his wing that's broken?
02:11So he had the lock up and then tries to get some steering lock.
02:16The left-hand side of his front wing goes towards the barrier.
02:21It was the right that looked damaged, wasn't it, when he was coming back to the pit?
02:24The whole thing's gone on a bumpy ride, isn't it?
02:26It literally did.
02:27I think it's sort of, the right looks odd because it's pushed the left-hand side down.
02:31It literally understeered off the road.
02:34It crosses the line.
02:35He's 13th fastest ahead of his teammate Sergio Perez.
02:38He trails 6-2 in qualifying.
02:41Arvid Lindblad's finding pace.
02:42Quickies in the first sector as Alex Albon goes 8th fastest.
02:45Next to cross the line will be Oli Behrman.
02:48He's P9 currently.
02:50We're on board now with Arvid Lindblad.
02:52Rookie here for his first British Grand Prix.
02:54Goes 4th fastest overall into the 129s.
02:58And Russell is back out on track right now.
03:01So a good job well done there.
03:04And George Russell lives for another lap, basically.
03:10He said he's Hanzo and Bottas and Perez and this man, George Russell.
03:15Pole sitter, as I say, for the last two races and now scrapping away to get out of that bottom
03:20six, which he does by going 5th fastest.
03:23But he's on a very good lap, too.
03:26Max Verstappen out there currently down in 10th place and is about to change that quite dramatically.
03:32And there it is.
03:33Slots that Red Bull in between the two Ferraris.
03:35Gasly is up on a time he needs to get out of the bottom six.
03:38Hadjar goes fastest overall.
03:40Two and a half tenths up on Charles Leclerc.
03:42The benefit of the new tyres for some of them, too.
03:45Fernando Alonso.
03:46Is he going to get out-qualified by his teammate Lance Stroll?
03:49Yes, he is going to get out-qualified.
03:52You've got only one...
03:55Bortoletico's 12th fastest.
03:56Only one Grand Prix since Silverstone 2024.
03:59The Stroll has out-qualified Alonso and he has done it here today.
04:03Sergio Perez is out-qualified by Valtteri Bottas.
04:06That's a rarity, too.
04:07Franco Colopinto missed out on Q2 and that is where he lost it, sliding over the grass.
04:12That is a very, very bumpy way to exit Becketts.
04:17We can see it on board as well as he got a bit too much kerb.
04:21He's thrown himself out of line a bit in the second part of that corner.
04:25Now he's going backwards, Martin, over the grass, which you never want to see.
04:28I think it was just the crosswind caught him out there.
04:31Back end just lost.
04:32Like I lost it flat.
04:34Completely lost the road.
04:36There's nothing obvious standing out at the moment.
04:37There is a bit of a wind change, but it's not huge.
04:41He's reached Q3 at Silverstone in eight previous attempts.
04:44Yeah, the 10th is up.
04:45It's not a normal.
04:47Here's the time across the line for Verstappen, a 1.29.3.
04:52So he's a couple of tenths up on his best time from Q1.
04:56And that was unused tyres.
04:57Exactly.
04:59The soft tyres giving him a two-tenths improvement.
05:02And Isaac Hadjar, who did run new tyres in the first part of qualifying, goes a tenth faster.
05:07Leclerc now, a couple of poles for him at Silverstone in the past and goes quickest with a 1.29
05:12.0 as Gasly starts his latest lap.
05:15And Hamilton now goes faster by a couple of tenths of a second.
05:17And we're into the 1.28s with Arvid Limblad now giving it absolutely everything and trying to find some grip
05:25in that final sector.
05:27The Racing Bulls just losing a little bit of pace.
05:29Only fifth fastest.
05:30Lawson next across the line slots in behind his teammate by 4.100.
05:34Stands up on Hadjar, for instance.
05:37Russell goes second fastest behind Lewis Hamilton.
05:39So Hamilton, Russell, Leclerc, the top three.
05:43Good lap there from George Russell.
05:44Ollie Behrman goes 11th fastest.
05:47But the wrong side of that elimination zone, which Oscar Piastri is hovering around, as is Nico Hulkenberg.
05:53See it now on our main feed.
05:55Through Abbey we go.
05:56That was OK.
05:57Farm comes up next.
05:58And the next one is Village.
06:00He just can't slow the car down.
06:02No, he's still hanging on to the brake pedal as he turns the steering wheel.
06:05Well, let's have a little look as we go into the Vale chicane here.
06:14We saw him on board.
06:15Just looked like he was a bit unsettled by the kerb.
06:19Couldn't get the power down the way he wanted there.
06:21Saw that a bit in qualifying for the sprint as Piastri crosses the line P7, a 1.29.2.
06:27Now, is that good enough?
06:28He's got the four tenths that he needed.
06:30Let's see if it's good enough.
06:31Has Lando Norris only a 1.29.3?
06:34He is right on the cusp here.
06:3729 seconds to go.
06:38On board with Bermany is out of qualifying.
06:40It's 13th fastest.
06:42It's round about where that has is.
06:44He was 13th fastest, wasn't he, in Austria?
06:46As Sainz, kicking up the dirt, going around club, is out of qualifying too.
06:51Alex Albon should be next after Gabriel Bortoleto, who has just missed out.
06:57And this is breathing space here for Lando Norris and for Liam Lawson.
07:01Alex Albon crosses the line, stays 15th fastest and slowest.
07:05Pierre Gasly would love to be in the top ten.
07:08And it's 12th fastest only for Pierre Gasly in the Alpine.
07:13So he and Charles Leclerc neck and neck through that part of the lap.
07:17Lando Norris will be next to cross the line and goes behind his teammate.
07:22A 1.29.3 once again, almost matching his time from Q2.
07:26McLaren not finding any pace so far.
07:28Max Verstappen has found a little bit of pace,
07:31albeit by four one-hundredths of a second, and goes quickest overall.
07:35That's compared to his Q2 time.
07:37Charles Leclerc, meanwhile, has now put half a second between himself and Max Verstappen.
07:42But once again, very similar to his Q2 time.
07:44Lewis Hamilton now goes quickest.
07:46It's Kimi Antonelli, who was on the front row of the sprint with Lewis Hamilton.
07:50He's on the front row, but they reversed the places.
07:53Antonelli quickest.
07:54Hamilton, two tenths off.
07:56George Russell now onto the front row.
07:59And that's where he thinks he belongs.
08:01And for the first time this weekend,
08:03he is right up there with his teammate Kimi Antonelli.
08:06And when it counts, two.
08:09So did Lewis Hamilton lose a couple of tenths somewhere on this lap?
08:14And did it come at turn three?
08:15Yeah, he had to correct the rear slide.
08:19Let's find out.
08:21This is their best effort of the entire weekend.
08:24Kimi Antonelli, provisional pole with a 1.28.1.
08:27Is this going to stick and be his fifth pole position of the season?
08:32Charles Leclerc has gone quicker than he did through the first sector.
08:34Lando Norris, P6.
08:36Can't do any better than that.
08:38Russell not making an impact on the best times on this lap.
08:42Stay second fastest and was further off the pace.
08:46So can Verstappen, Leclerc or Hamilton force their way into the mix?
08:50Not for Verstappen.
08:52Only P7 splits the McLarens and that's it.
08:55Charles Leclerc to the line on the front row ahead of George Russell
08:59behind Kimi Antonelli.
09:00With Hamilton to come and he has not found the pace on his final lap.
09:05It's P3 for Lewis Hamilton.
09:08Isaac Hadjar, the last to cross the line.
09:11Top five for him.
09:12And it's the big five poles for Kimi Antonelli.
09:16In 2026, the championship leader won the sprint race earlier,
09:21returned to the track and beat them all again in qualifying for the Grand Prix.
09:35That was a very tidy lap.
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