00:00Antonelli led the championship by 66 points after Monaco to Lewis Hamilton
00:05now just 25 points clear of George Russell who's in the second place I have
00:10the wrong visor on okay we'll get that changed after this run back into straight
00:17line mode the active aero working and then jump on the brakes for the bus stop
00:22chicane nicely there over the curbs and he will run up to the line this time
00:28with a 46 9 for Antonelli times from last year not really comparable we have 42 0
00:35as our fastest time in FP1 when we would have been doing some qualifying
00:39simulations ahead of sprint qualifying Charles Leclerc go second fastest Lewis
00:45Hamilton goes off the track at the final chicane there so that's gonna hamper his
00:50progress on his first flying lap Isaac Hadjar and Max Verstappen will be the next
00:55drivers to cross the line both with new internal combustion engines and various
01:00auxiliary parts Hadjar goes second fastest he'll be starting at the back of the
01:04grid Max Verstappen has more left in his allocation so no penalties for him let's
01:11just make our way through this final corner it's not as easy a task Spa in 2026 as it
01:20was last year being energy I should say so what happened to Lewis Hamilton then at
01:24that chicane just deep on the brakes no lock up but just didn't seem to get the
01:31retardation that he was hoping to have and didn't slow down in time for the apex
01:35one of those things that you think always that driver error or not and it's often
01:39a mechanical issue with the brake by wire system this is Carlos Sainz
01:45Carlos Sainz who was reprimanded for crossing the white line at the pit exit and then coming
01:57back onto the track earlier not happy with Sergio Perez there back to racing pools in a minute because
02:02I love the way they've sorted out the the upgrade for this weekend that just shows you these cars
02:08not on rails in the way that they used to be yeah I think that's great the drivers are having
02:13to work
02:13quite hard front right time look at the dirt on that tire so he and then gets a big snap
02:19at the exit
02:19oh red flag I wonder if we've got a bit of gravel kicked up and that's why we've got a
02:25red flag and
02:26they need to get on the track and sweep it a little bit now this will be better news for
02:32Oscar Piastri
02:32who's yet to go out on the track and they're still working on his car but at least they're working
02:36on it
02:36now whilst nobody else is uh is going around and yeah there is that gravel uh right down at Stavello
02:43and Curve Paul Frere which used to be called Stavello 2 so the second part of that corner and
02:48quite clearly Karun you can't leave that gravel lying there on the racing line
02:52yeah my god shifts unbelievable man why they say it's unacceptable it's my god
03:01yeah he was asked on several occasions over the last few races you know will you be in red bull
03:06next will you be in a red bull car next year and he's not given a firmly committed answer has
03:13he so
03:13um but Max Verstappen holds the aces he holds the aces in this paddock he is
03:18I think it's a difficult decision for him because what have we learned this year we've learned this
03:25year that actually being a customer team at McLaren is a disadvantage yeah and I don't think
03:30McLaren have any plans to make their own engines red bull have shown that actually being a works team
03:35and making their own engines they've been successful on the engine side as Antonelli goes fastest by a big
03:41chance Max didn't really improve his lap time to get the replay this looks like it was earlier as well
03:47every marriage so it gets to no name
03:52touches the gravel got away with that I think is but then again touches the gravel
03:59at uh la source I think on the on coming out of it it was a big slide nearer a
04:03second than he is
04:04three tenths off bus stop chicane uh to come very different to the old proper bus stop uh chicane
04:10let's just call it the final chicane shall we for the moment and George crosses the line
04:151.2 seconds adrift in sixth place and that is not what George Russell would have been looking for
04:21no from his first flying lap where you can make comparisons to his teammate Arvid Lindblad
04:27goes sixth fastest while Lando Norris puts in the best middle sector we've had so far and Frenco
04:32Colopinto goes fifth fastest the Mercedes power unit in the back of the Alpine should be
04:39an advantage for Alpine this weekend they're in a big fight with racing bulls aren't they
04:43and we'll see the run up the line for Lando Norris who goes second fastest so McLaren starting to show
04:49their hand they they were a bit behind in FB1 seem to be running a different program to the others
04:54lots of
04:54aero testing and now we're starting to see a McLaren unleash a bit of pace there's two scores across
05:00the track there we're still two gold mini sector point but not one point three seconds just underneath
05:06me as well a big chunk away from their teammates i think of Silverstone they were a big chunk away
05:12from
05:12their teammates there do seem to be weekends this year where we're seeing bigger gaps between teammates
05:19and i'm not sure why is the insinuation there that they're driving style this is where Pierre went off the
05:24track the the insinuation their driving style isn't necessarily suited and if and if that is the
05:31case well Ferrari oh no we're not going to go down to Bernie Collins Pierre Gasly has had a big
05:38off
05:39here and has lost his rear wing as you can see and we've got a red flag uh so that
05:45is through the
05:46Fania chicane that this has happened he gets to the bottom part of the track and that that is a
05:51hefty
05:51whack he's had against the barriers yeah he should stop he's just damaging the gearbox there like the
05:55whole rear right corner is hanging off the boys yeah there you go turn the engine off just stop
06:01because the more you try and drive it the more you put energy through that whole drive train you're
06:06doing more and more damage as you can let's have a little look on board as we drop through from
06:11poo on to the Fania chicane all okay at the moment oh and there's a glancing blow wasn't it yeah
06:24caught the
06:24end of the battery it's yeah the possibility lost it out of nowhere that's the loss for real
06:33so what would it call what what has caused that because that's not it's not in straight line mode
06:39is it at that it looked under control when he got the apex then it it looked like a fairly
06:44innocuous
06:45little slide to start with it got on the gravel but then didn't didn't manage to slow it down enough
06:52or swerve the barrier just caught the end of that wall on the right for 16 minutes frustrating
06:56um session really because with a couple of incidents with the gravel being cleaned up with
07:02gasly's uh incidents we didn't get the full picture uh maybe oscar piastri uh not with the uh the
07:09greatest lap george russell not with the uh the greatest lap they'll come i think back into the
07:14picture tomorrow but kimmy antonelli the championship leader did get his fastest uh lap in and did get
07:21everything right and what two tenths clear of lando norris who's going to take a two uh 10 place grid
07:27penalty uh which seems a real shame if uh the mclarens are the closest thing to challenging the
07:33mercedes for a victory this weekend yeah
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