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00:00So, although I haven't heard the radio or seen the settings in the cockpit,
00:03maybe they're doing some aero tests that they want to limit the power on the straights.
00:08And then they've adjusted the front wing, they'll do the same run again,
00:11but to the driver that feels like a lack of power compared to what he normally expects.
00:16Gotcha, great, thank you Bernie.
00:17That's Oskar Piastri down towards Turn 1.
00:20You get a much bigger variation of speed now,
00:23and therefore, lots of drag when you open the slot gap of the rear wing.
00:27It used to be a great spot though, that chicane, to watch cars at testing,
00:30because the amount of times I stood out there and would bump into drivers
00:32who weren't running in the car at the time,
00:34watching other cars come down the hill and through that chicane to see how they're handling.
00:38And you could see the ones that were easy to manage and hustle through there,
00:41and the ones that were finding it tough.
00:42Oskar Piastri on his lap here, personal best in the first two sectors,
00:46not quite on Max Verstappen's time of a 1.15.4 yet though, eh?
00:50Exactly, yeah, I mean they did the fastest lap time last year was from Max Verstappen as well
00:53in FP1, it was a 1.14.6.
00:56So yeah, they're still a little way off of that.
00:58Piastri heads around that final corner, comes up to run with 1.17.0.
01:03And yeah, the car looks good,
01:05they're probably running it quite heavy at this stage.
01:07I'll just correct you there, slower cars tend to pick up rubber.
01:10So they'll clean the track up for them?
01:12Yeah, it actually goes against you.
01:15Oh, and going against Charles Leclerc around Turn 12,
01:17we mentioned the wind behind the car as they exit that corner,
01:20and this is one area where the drivers are going to have to keep an eye on
01:24and focus on the balance of the car as well.
01:26That's where Max had a gust of wind catch him out.
01:29Is there anything wrong with the pedal that we are understeering too much?
01:33On the exits?
01:35Like I said, we'll have a talk in the garage.
01:38I surrender for now.
01:41Okay, we're having a look.
01:46Did we almost just hear him talk about balance then as well?
01:48Well, you will do.
01:49This circuit really highlights balance.
01:51This is Turn 10, you get to the right-hand side of the track,
01:54you're looking for a strong front end but not leaving the rear behind.
01:57And he's got understeer there, do you see that?
01:58As you park the steering on, the car didn't want to turn.
02:01Then the rear starts to snap on the exit,
02:03and then middle of Turn 12,
02:04so you know what I mean about you're in that corner forever?
02:07And then I can see he's not able to get on the throttle,
02:09he got that on the right-hand side of the halo.
02:11What happens in the final corner?
02:13That looks a bit better as he turns in,
02:15the front was a bit stronger for him,
02:17and he didn't really have to lift that much.
02:19But yeah, Leclerc down in P5 at the moment,
02:22his teammate P3.
02:24That's what you replay for Lando.
02:25It must be power-related down at RB that they're looking into that,
02:29as I say we're on board with Norris there,
02:32and a very similar thing to a lesser degree
02:35what happened to Charles Leclerc at the exit of Turn 12.
02:37Instability into most corners,
02:41pretty poor grip from the rear,
02:43and as soon as I have entry instability,
02:45the whole corner's pretty much gone.
02:51The very small gap of 1 tenth at the moment between Verstappen and Russell,
02:54we're seeing that rear wing,
02:57with the DRS open, Valtteri Bottas,
02:59that is moving around a lot.
03:00That doesn't look right at all, does it?
03:02Purple sector in that middle sector,
03:04so yeah, almost half a second up now.
03:06Turn 10's a real tricky one,
03:08and also actually what you have to think about at this point here,
03:11Turn 12, we've all seen them struggling through there.
03:13Actually, luckily, it happened earlier on in the corner for him,
03:16so he could get on power later on.
03:17Now, let's see what happens in the final corner.
03:19You can really hear the car touching quite a lot under my voice there,
03:24as he goes fast with a 14.7,
03:25still off by a tenth where they were here this time last year,
03:29so more to come.
03:31We saw Carlos Sainz go purple in the first sector,
03:33and didn't manage to go purple in the second sector,
03:35but he has gone purple in the third sector.
03:36You enjoy that grip in the first sector quite often,
03:39and you look at Verstappen as well at the bottom of the screen,
03:42so only personal best in the first sector,
03:44but then hammers that middle sector as Lewis Crossline,
03:46even going off the circuit,
03:48improves his time to go P4 for now,
03:50but let's keep an eye on Max Verstappen in the red ball.
03:52We pick him up here as he turns into that final corner.
03:56What's this going to be as he crosses the line?
03:58Expect him to go fast as he does.
03:59Yeah, he does.
04:00Was that on the soft tyre?
04:01It was, he was out on the soft.
04:03Here's a replay of Hamilton before Turn 10.
04:04On the mediums, of course.
04:06Ah, just goes in a little bit too deep,
04:08and he's expecting a bit too much grip.
04:10Doesn't actually lose too much time from it,
04:12but that lap would have definitely been deleted
04:14if it was qualifying,
04:15because you have to watch out for that white line, of course.
04:17But, yeah, just sent it in there a little bit too quick.
04:21What's happened here with Yuki Tsunoda in Turn 9?
04:24We go...
04:24Oh, he's trying to turn right or left.
04:27Pick a line, any line, and stick to it.
04:30I don't know what Tsunoda was doing there.
04:31I pulled to the right and he just aimed for me.
04:36Yeah, I think he thought, Tsunoda thought,
04:38that Russell was going to stay to the left,
04:41so he started to go right.
04:42But, yeah, they kind of zigged when they should have zagged.
04:45No, but it's the exit of one of the fastest corners,
04:48if not the fastest corner on the circuit.
04:50I think it's going to go purple, green, green, this one.
04:53I'm not saying whether he'll go quickest overall or not,
04:55but I think it'll be purple, green, green.
04:57Let's see.
04:58So on the soft tyre as well,
05:00so don't forget that Russell and Hamilton were on the mediums,
05:03so there's a little bit of separation there as well,
05:07as we heard from Bernie,
05:08in the region of three to four tenths,
05:10at least you have to say.
05:10Oh, you're on course at the moment, Rachel Brooks.
05:13Two out of three.
05:15Are you actually willing him on to go slower now,
05:17through this final sector?
05:18If you are, that's just pure evil.
05:20No, it just means I'm very competitive.
05:22Do you think I'm competitive, Anne?
05:23Oh, no, not at all.
05:25Right, here we go then.
05:26Flat out through the second to last corner.
05:29Almost flat out through the final corner.
05:31And what's it going to be?
05:33Another green sector.
05:34He goes faster, so everyone has their cake and eats it.
05:37We're using this session to really assess our updates
05:40so far, how it's performing at this circuit.
05:43And of course, Ollie's back in the car,
05:45so again, for him to go through this programme
05:48for the engineers and also for himself,
05:50again, as ever, he's doing a very good job.
05:54IO, it's Anthony here.
05:56You said upgrades, but from what I can see, at least,
06:00it seems like you've just brought the one last race here.
06:01Yeah, actually, for winter 9,
06:03there was something flying out of the front wind,
06:05so better to check.
06:06That's the one we introduced over the time,
06:08you know, Shanghai, Imola, Miami,
06:11but we haven't actually had a proper high-speed corner
06:13since our update.
06:14So this is the first, let's say,
06:16real aero circuit we can look at the car.
06:19So that's what I meant.
06:20So the stress on those tyres should be a little bit less.
06:23They're also now running a little bit higher fuel,
06:26and there will be a difference.
06:27Who is the Aston Martin?
06:29Around you.
06:30One second.
06:31Oh, before, stroll.
06:33Oh, just in the middle of the corner,
06:34as always.
06:37What's going to happen in qualifying
06:39as the player comes into the pits here on a replay?
06:47There was something strange with the clutch when I came in.
06:49I kept the clutch and the rear tyres locked up completely,
06:54and then went again when I was stopping for the box now.
06:58Copy.
07:00You heard it, didn't you?
07:00Yeah, you could hear it when you came in.
07:03Why have you put it on track at that point?
07:05It's a good question.
07:09Oh, great.
07:11So George has had to go a bit slower on that outlap, of course.
07:14That's probably an older message,
07:15and they've sent them out exactly the same time.
07:17So he's had to do the work himself
07:19and find a nice gap.
07:21He's trying to find a bit of a gap himself,
07:23but both Astons are on a soft tyre there.
07:24With the car box, the car is drivable.
07:31Issues for Pierre Gasly in the Alpine.
07:33Clutch gains anti-stalling.
07:35Understood.
07:38Anti-stalling.
07:40Okay, so that would mean that
07:42when the reds get to a certain level,
07:44then they suddenly pull the clutch in,
07:46so it doesn't stall the engine.
07:47Yeah, it pulls itself in.
07:49I can't imagine he's going that slowly
07:51at any point in the circuit.
07:55Yeah, that's just a loss of traction there over the kerbs
07:59as he's getting on power.
08:00That's nothing to do with the anti-stall, pardon me.
08:03I think it's more when he's pulling out of the garage
08:05or even coming to a standstill.
08:08That's where he's got the issue.
08:10Pierre has just taken off a tear-off.
08:12If you lock up the rears, it can go into anti-stall.
08:16So I wonder if he had a braking issue.
08:19Oh, see that?
08:19As he took his tear-off off,
08:20it actually landed most of the time.
08:22As he took his tear-off off,
08:23it actually landed momentarily on the rear wing.
08:26And it is a state there.
08:27Oh, finally came off.
08:29They are, tear-offs get everywhere.
08:31Wow, thank you very much, Bernie.
08:32And it's gone P2.
08:34So fourth and final engine for him behind Lando Norris,
08:37as we mentioned, on a 1.14.2.
08:40Colour Science was third quickest in the Ferrari.
08:42Three different teams in the top three,
08:43three tenths behind.
08:44Then came their teammates, George Russell, Sergio Perez
08:47and Oscar Piastri and Lewis Hamilton
08:50in the Mercedes ahead of Esteban Ocon in the Alpine.
08:52P8, of course, P9, Alonso, P10, Alex Albon.
08:55And there's the rest of the 20 drivers.
08:57Charles Leclerc down in P11,
08:59some way off his teammate in that session.
09:03Patrick Bottas, Pierre Gasly, Lance Stroll,
09:05Daniel Ricciardo, Joe Granul.
09:07Kevin Magnussen, Logan Sargent,
09:08Olly Behrmann, Infinito Hulkenberg, P19.
09:10But as you were saying,
09:11just two tenths off his teammate, Yuki Tsunoda.
09:14Rounding out the 20.
09:14We'll be back for second practice here in Barcelona
09:17a little later.