Practice 2 Highlights _ Formula 1 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix 2024_17052024_164042.mp4
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 A very fast right-hander leading into a tighter one, very anti-alter those kerbs.
00:05 We've seen so many variations of them over the years, but the actual profile has been there for quite some time now.
00:12 We've got Sunoda at the top of the times, pipped by Sainz on the medium tyres.
00:17 We'll see what Leclerc can do.
00:19 Ravazza.
00:20 One thing to watch out for, Harry, is the track limit violations of the outside of the Ravazzas.
00:25 Because although it's free practice at the moment and times won't be deleted,
00:30 when we get to qualifying, they will be.
00:32 And actually two of the victims of that, I think, have been in F2,
00:37 of Oliver Behrmann and Kimberley Antonelli, the two most high-profile drivers,
00:43 qualified second and fourth, I think, on the lap times.
00:46 And Anthony Davies just sent me a text saying they're going to be 18th and 20th on the grid.
00:51 That's how easy it can be here to find yourself all four wheels past the white line.
00:56 It feels like something's not right.
01:01 Yeah, I agree. It's not right. So we're going to have to look at it.
01:06 OK, something not right on Hulkenberg's car.
01:09 The first three cars and from three different teams, which is exactly what we want.
01:14 Long may this continue, mainly into qualifying.
01:18 Gasly overshooting the first apex, then gets tied to the second apex
01:23 and loses the back end when he starts to pick the power up.
01:26 So it's all a bit messy.
01:28 Well, the issue is, I mean, yeah, that would be an electronic module
01:32 that broke or was knocked out, exactly.
01:36 But that's fairly easy to fix. I know where those bits are in the car.
01:40 But these look like rather more significant issues on both cars.
01:44 Anyway, I'll get back to you when I've got a word from Williams.
01:46 OK, thanks, Ted. Appreciate that.
01:49 I think that he's alone on the track.
01:52 Yeah, copy. Yeah.
01:54 He does it.
01:56 Yeah, copy.
02:01 Frutosa and Aquaminarale then.
02:03 Alonso not too happy with Lewis Hamilton's placing of his car.
02:07 Personal best in sector one and sector two for Sainz.
02:12 He makes his way to that quite tricky that we saw at FP1,
02:15 downhill into the double left-hander revat.
02:18 So lots of cars dipping a wheel and then some into the gravel.
02:22 Sainz manages it on that occasion, though, and across the apex.
02:25 Still down in tenth as we just take a look at what happened to Charles Leclerc
02:29 down into Aquaminarale.
02:32 Check the power steering.
02:35 Copy, we will check.
02:38 I think that this lap was significant.
02:43 There still seems to be some issues down at Williams.
02:49 Neither car has appeared yet, saying that Albon is now out on track.
02:53 But both cars not too long ago, and Sargent still, as you can see,
02:57 up on the jacks. And he is in that car that sees off a lap of Imola
03:02 through the revat. Pit lane entry to the right.
03:06 And he is going to finish off that lap.
03:09 First benchmark on the soft compound for Russell. Fourth, a 1.16.8.
03:14 He's on a good lap here, by the way, Harry.
03:16 Very good.
03:17 He's on for a low 16.
03:20 And that's a bit more like it, the difference.
03:23 So that'll be track limits in qualifying.
03:25 He's actually a ball to the lap, look.
03:27 And he's dived into the pits at the last minute.
03:29 You can't cut across that green runoff area.
03:32 You have to go the right-hand side of the bollards.
03:34 He's actually just about managed to get it in in time.
03:37 But it was looking like a very neat and tidy lap.
03:39 Fastest of anybody in the first and second sectors.
03:42 Philando Norris, Formula 1's most recent race winner,
03:46 but bailing out of that lap right at the very end, back to the pits.
03:49 So both Ferraris have done identical first sector times.
03:53 Hamilton's popped up in front of Russell by 0.14 of a second.
03:58 This is earlier in the lap.
04:00 He just launched it over that curb at the very end.
04:02 The Alta Chicane, car flying momentarily in the air.
04:05 Fantastic slow-mo angle there.
04:08 So Leclerc's middle sector, 0.2 up on signs.
04:11 And this is the moment we saw.
04:13 So he was outside track limits there.
04:15 What Ferraris got as he puts the softs on.
04:18 No.
04:19 Sixth fastest.
04:20 Wow.
04:21 It's not there.
04:22 It's not happening for Red Bull so far.
04:24 This is interesting, isn't it?
04:27 Are we going to get an upset here or an absolute cheer
04:30 from the Tifosi in the grandstands?
04:32 It looks like it's still not all well for Red Bull out there.
04:36 Yuki Tsunoda.
04:37 Wow.
04:38 He should get himself a motorhome for the rest of the season,
04:41 have a home away from home,
04:42 because he's at the moment 0.7 up on Ricciardo.
04:46 Is Ricciardo-- Ricciardo's on track,
04:49 but not really on a lap that's going to move him up.
04:53 No.
04:54 And signs.
04:55 Trims the grass.
04:57 Not too much harm done.
04:59 A mistake on that second lap on the softs.
05:02 Couldn't quite get closer on that occasion.
05:05 A little bit of traffic to negotiate for the McLaren
05:10 in the form of one of the Alpines.
05:12 It all gets a little bit tight there going into the left-hander
05:16 as they sort themselves out.
05:18 Currently fourth.
05:19 First time in his career, though, he's not finished in the top five.
05:22 In the first six races, dipped a wheel in the gravel.
05:26 Lives to fight another day.
05:28 Just shy of 20 minutes remaining for this session.
05:31 Yuki Tsunoda failing to follow race director's instructions.
05:35 Practice start infringement for Tsunoda,
05:38 who is out on track at the moment and has been flying so far.
05:42 And that has been updated to being investigated after the session.
05:47 This is what he's done.
05:48 He's gone out of the pit exit.
05:50 Down a practice start.
05:53 Has he bailed out?
05:55 No, he's not.
05:56 Down a practice start.
05:57 I mean, that's very surprising.
06:00 And there's the grid spot.
06:03 Yes, but I think the rule is you're--
06:06 On the right-hand side of the pit exit.
06:09 Yeah.
06:10 From the race direction's notes.
06:12 So while we figure that one out, Tsunoda then
06:15 is under investigation for an infringement
06:18 for a practice start in the pits.
06:20 So we'll figure that one out.
06:21 And it's currently being investigated.
06:23 Running on board with him.
06:24 As you can see in front, to Kevin Magnussen.
06:27 So let's see what this one delivers.
06:30 But he's not had a particularly stellar run so far
06:34 on the set of mediums.
06:35 Looks a bit nervous, the car coming up uphill
06:38 through Accominarale, across the curbs of Variante Alta.
06:43 Verstappen then on that medium tire.
06:47 But he's on the soft.
06:48 It was only enough for seventh, half a second down.
06:51 All is not quite well then for the reigning champion.
06:56 Oh, he's off.
06:57 Oh, off into the gravel.
06:58 He's off the reverser.
06:59 He's not comfortable in that car as the RB gets oh so tight.
07:03 Daniel Ricciardo, who manages to make his way through.
07:06 It just seems like Verstappen's trying to turn in.
07:09 The car isn't responding quick enough to his inputs.
07:13 So let's have a look.
07:14 This is where we just saw, yeah, a lot of pistachios
07:18 inside front.
07:20 I think he must be about the eighth different driver
07:22 we've seen do that today.
07:24 And again, that tailwind as you come on the braking,
07:27 downhill, it's just pushed him on and couldn't get the car
07:31 stopped in time.
07:33 Oh, he sees signs running wide there, the Villeneuve chicane.
07:36 So that's been a bit of an uncomfortable ride
07:39 across the double curb on the exit.
07:41 Will put this car back towards contention for not only podiums
07:45 but potentially race wins, which I thought was interesting
07:48 from Alistair.
07:50 Piastri on the radio there, just commenting on the outbeat
08:00 in front of Charles Leclerc, topping Friday in FP1 and FP2.
08:05 Decent day for Mercedes as well.
08:07 Hamilton and Russell fourth and fifth signs with a few mistakes
08:10 on his fast laps, ended down in sixth.
08:13 What is going on down at Red Bull and Max Verstappen,
08:16 seventh, just in front of his teammate Sergio Perez.
08:19 Good day as well for Nico Hülkenberg in the Haas.
08:22 Fernando Alonso in the Aston Martin rounding out the top ten.
08:25 Ricciardo not quite on pace with his teammate,
08:27 eleventh in front of Lando Norris.
08:29 We didn't get to see what he had on the soft tyre,
08:31 but presume he is well up there in front of Stroll.
08:34 Ocon Gasly, the top 15.
08:36 Bottas, Magnussen, Albon, Joe in 19th.
08:40 And Logan Sargent at 20th and last at the end of free practice two.
08:46 And the first day of action in Imola, done and dusted.
08:49 dust it.