Practice 1 Highlights _ Formula 1 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix 2024_17052024_130838.mp4
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00:00 I hope I've explained it well enough, but that's yeah
00:03 That was an important little pointer as as to what McLaren need to learn in this session
00:09 Thanks, Ted. Oscar Piastri on the set of medium tires goes to the top of the times which will be invaluable and
00:17 It's certainly not holding it back at the moment
00:19 That's for Stappen across the line on that soft compound tire. Still early stages of free practice one
00:25 But at 180 606 for the reigning champ and on board with Carlos Sainz personal best for him
00:32 Going again through the middle sector. He's on the hard compound of tire though down in six
00:37 So the Red Bulls have clearly gone early with the soft tires
00:40 They're the only two who've gone early with the soft tires riding on board
00:44 It's the Stappen running wide out of Aquaminerale and it's all to do Harry because if they're thinking ahead
00:50 They're all thinking about what tires they want to keep and what tires are gonna need
00:55 Start of this season as we get a replay of this
00:57 Just understood why completely miss the apex off the first of ATSA and it is a downhill braking zone
01:05 It is difficult to get the car stop because what a gravity is against you and be the rear of the car always gets a bit
01:11 light there
01:12 Hamilton running right now these that bit there on the outside of Piratella is the new gravel trap
01:18 That's been put in for this year
01:20 On board through Ravazza
01:24 The final but technically the penultimate corner because this is the final corner a slight right hand kick
01:30 Did you take that up nice lap through the middle sector?
01:32 But Lewis Hamilton third fastest and fastest of anybody in the final sector and the middle sector as well
01:37 We've got a yellow flag out in sector two
01:41 I think it might be Alex Albon who's found himself in the grass
01:46 And that is by aqua Miller Ali and he's out. He's done wheel is off and he's getting out of the car
01:52 So good to see him moving but Albon and in a weekend
01:56 We're off the backburner two weekends that have been sprints where you've only had one
02:00 Practice session as it goes to red flag
02:03 Then a weekend when we get three at least hopefully be able to get to come back for those but Albon's day is done
02:09 correctly one yeah
02:12 I'm guessing some sort of technical issue there and he's just pulled over so
02:16 There's Lewis Hamilton waving to the Italian fans as I was saying earlier. They really seem to have
02:23 Welcomed him in and warm to the idea of him being a Ferrari driver, which is it's gonna be
02:29 An interesting weekend. I think for Lewis isn't this the first time racing in Italy since he signed that Ferrari contract see James valves
02:38 Watching on in the pit wall having just signed a deal with Alex Albon to keep him on board a multi-year contract
02:45 extension through to the end of
02:47 2026 for Alex Albon showing commitment in that Williams projects and
02:52 James vows as team principal that second seat alongside him still very much up for grass crews
02:58 We get a look at what happened to Albon. Let's listen in
03:07 It's a shutdown isn't it? Mm-hmm. Just completely cut out
03:09 Trying to see the steering wheel
03:12 Conquered his head in the way, but I feel like it's just a complete shutdown
03:16 He didn't he didn't go down the gears there and the car just stopped. It's
03:19 It almost seems like an electrical shutdown where the cars just completely
03:25 Turned itself off there riding a board here with Joe. I knew you know people like him
03:36 Now the driver struggling with paupers in here we haven't heard much of paupers in the season
03:40 Is it pulsing or is it just the nature of the track is so bumpy?
03:44 Yeah, and but then that creates this sort of bouncing effect that just keeps going doesn't it? So but yeah people like Joe Guan you
03:51 Yep copy that we can see what you're talking about
04:05 2006 so it's been a long time since we've seen that sort of midseason
04:09 Bit of a big one over the curve for George Russell slings it in it see it. Oh
04:16 Tell you what, that's almost exactly what a
04:19 Oliver Behrman did in Formula two, but Berman found the wall
04:23 That's a new curve that they put down at the apex of the Tamburello chicane
04:27 You pass depart the team which is obviously what Lewis Hamilton is doing at the end of the year
04:32 And I just got sacked. Well, yeah, there is also that hours we get it off for the the RB into
04:39 Rabatza finding the gravel. Let's see how happen downhill bit of traffic to the inside
04:45 That's the same thing that happened to his teammate, isn't it?
04:48 we saw Sonoda run deep down there and this is Daniel going even deeper and finding the
04:53 Funny escape road all the way just
04:58 Oscar Piazza the other Aussie down again at Rabatza and
05:01 He's also Gandhi. I do think the wind is not helping the drivers. I think we've got a tailwind
05:07 Yeah, thanks
05:14 On the radio as well saying that the
05:19 bouncing
05:23 As George Russell goes to the top of the timing screens 117
05:27 Sector again on that soft compound of time finding good time in the middle sector as teammates signs
05:47 But downhill now I've seen a lot of cars locking up the brakes and finding the gravel as Lewis Hamilton finds himself in a spin
05:54 On the exit. I think that was that the minerali on the grass spins himself back around
05:58 The player crosses the line to go fastest a tenth quicker than George Russell
06:03 Action so far in this first practice session see Hamilton would seem like the exit. Here we go. So
06:10 This is those other goes left through
06:15 Caratella now dropping down
06:17 The fast one then the slow part that minerali watch this
06:22 Oh, we just touch the inside curb
06:24 It doesn't say curve and the car started to bounce then it just put him into an oversteer and these cars nowadays
06:30 They're so big and heavy, you know, they're up to
06:34 Eight nearly eight hundred kilos seven ninety eight plus the fuel you flew is a good on top
06:39 so when it starts to go the momentum just keeps going and it just
06:44 Took him off the track into the grass
06:47 Tear off in the brake duct for max Verstappen as he comes into the pits and we
07:10 Look so good for Daniel on the Friday
07:12 For wheels, yeah, I just I can't regulate because then the car initially wants to bottom pretty badly
07:23 the entry to
07:26 The staff of they're not liking his way through a commoner are they yeah
07:32 Ricardo 1.1 seconds on the same time
07:36 Break down the sectors. You're currently purple sector one and three, but we're losing four tents
07:41 Obviously left to 12 you highlighted but turn seven and nine are also a little bit weak
07:47 Max Verstappen
07:58 Losing four tents. He's struggling through a commoner. Are they that's turns 11 and
08:04 11 12 and 13 as you go up hill Oh
08:06 And a big swap off of a staff and coming into very anti-alta nearly completely loses to car fails out of it cuts across the
08:14 Cross a save and a half from Max Verstappen who is not comfortable in that red ball. Let's get a replay Harry
08:22 So it comes along let's see into the braking zone this is where we saw signs have that snap of
08:29 Oversteer on the way in he's quite wide as well. It's similar to signs in terms of those
08:35 We are stepping on the line
08:36 Look at the trees in the background that tells you how much the wind is gusting and blowing
08:40 And if you get a gust of wind or a bit of a tailwind, especially there
08:45 you get
08:47 that happened, but fortunately he's got
08:50 tremendous car control
08:58 Issue fixed in time for free practice to later on max Verstappen
09:02 I was our absolute belter of a lap and then finds the gravel through a criminal early
09:07 fastest of anybody in the first sector and that goes that's the section of corners he's been struggling with
09:13 All throughout the session max Verstappen is not a happy man in that red ball in these early stages
09:21 Here in Imola a bit of concern on the pit wall as well for the man who qualified on pole in
09:27 2022 was one here
09:29 2021 and again in 2022 as well. We can see through how it happened for Max Verstappen into Wacken Minerali
09:36 Yes, you can hear the car bottoming out in the exactly as you're saying waves his hand there in frustration
09:43 Watch the first part here. This is where he tells you the first bit and the car bottoms out destabilizes it
09:49 And then he's as you're saying before he doesn't have the front end to bring it back into the second apex and just understeers past
09:55 He's quite wide
09:57 understeers off into the gravel, so
10:00 It is exactly
10:02 What you'd expect to happen given the radio message we heard earlier
10:07 And the weather is doing its wonders so far
10:13 Clean session in terms of weather not so clean on the track though
10:17 Lots of niggling issues to begin with Charlecler fastest in the far up in the Ferrari a tenth clear of George Russell
10:24 Carlos signs right behind in third Perez leads the Red Bull duo with Max Verstappen not happy and comfortable Sonoda sick
10:31 Hamilton Norris eight with piastri and Fernando Alonso rounding out the top ten eight tenths of Charlotte Claire
10:39 Pierre Gasly heading up the second half of the field and just in front of stroll and the other Aston Martin Ricardo
10:47 Not on par with his teammate just yet down in 13 to front of rock of Behrman
10:52 Press fp1 first of the year with Hassan 50 head of pot ass Joe
10:55 sergeant Alex Albon causing the red flag and Nico Hulkenberg