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00:00And as soon as we see them go much faster than this, they'll be thinking of the dry tyre.
00:04Hamilton then, round the club corner, the final corner of the 18 and crosses the line with a 1.37.5.
00:12So right on the cusp there, George Russell, next across the line, 1.37.8, just slots in behind his teammate.
00:18Once again, the Mercedes separated by only a few hundredths of a second.
00:22And here's Max Verstappen, who was on pole, of course, in Austria by a massive margin of four-tenths of a second last time out.
00:29His first pole in four races, going faster by a couple of tenths from the two Mercedes.
00:33It's as different as you're sliding between an uh-oh and a yee-haw, yeah?
00:37Yeah.
00:38If you're confident, you'll give it the yee-haw, but you don't want to do it too often.
00:41And Lando Norris goes second fastest, only a few hundredths behind Max Verstappen.
00:47You don't, but as I said, as long as you can stay online, you're okay.
00:50This is still on intermediate tyres.
00:52That's not online.
00:54No, they're just overheated.
00:56They've overheated.
00:57They've had enough.
00:58We're out of the window for these inters now.
01:03Yeah, so you only need, like your road car tyres, you only need tread on them to clear water.
01:09Somebody's gone off in sector two, but as long as you can keep it hard on the throttle and also...
01:14Hey, Sergio Perez, and he's in the gravel, and he is beached, and it's a red flag.
01:19And he's out.
01:19So Valtteri Bottas will abort that lap, and you're right, Martin, Sergio Perez is out of qualifying.
01:26And he's gone off on the exit of Copse, and he's spun round.
01:30And as he rightly says, he is stuck.
01:34Out in Q1 here last season, out in Q1 here this season.
01:39Well, he's not out yet, is he?
01:41But he's in terms of Q1, as it were, because it sort of rains now or something.
01:47And they don't get, they don't beat his 138.3, see what I mean?
01:52But as long as they...
01:54The clock doesn't stop in practice, but it does stop in qualifying.
01:58But as soon as you receive outside assistance, you are out of qualifying.
02:04And yeah, he will now anxiously be waiting.
02:07But if they all get out again, you're absolutely right.
02:09He will start right at the back.
02:11He'll need binoculars to see the lights go out.
02:14Watching dry tyre speed, because...
02:16All I need is to be pushed back.
02:19There is a tarmac over there.
02:22Can he do that?
02:24Can the marshals do that for him?
02:27I don't think so.
02:28I think once he's received outside assistance, it's good night.
02:32Thank you.
02:33But I know, I can see what he's asking for.
02:36But they're making him get out.
02:38They want him to get out.
02:39We can see that big dark cloud that's making its way across and onto the Sir Lewis Hamilton straight.
02:47But it is still dry here at Silverstone.
02:51The rain's not coming down as yet.
02:53But for Sergio Perez, Q1 exits this season in Monaco and Canada.
02:59And that could be a third if it doesn't rain.
03:04And the cars get back onto the track soon.
03:07No sign of a restart as yet.
03:10But that is poor for Sergio Perez.
03:14Not what he wanted here at all.
03:17Let's have a listen to his team radio.
03:22The track is still red, Oscar.
03:25But people are queuing because there is a risk of rain towards the end of the session.
03:29So I put you in the queue.
03:31I don't have a restart time yet.
03:35Lando, the risk of rain is coming early.
03:37Earlier?
03:37Possible.
03:38It will affect the track in five minutes time.
03:41So the early laps might be important.
03:43But Bottas then corrects that slide into the pit straight.
03:46Downforce building again.
03:48And he's into the 32s.
03:50Not too shabby.
03:51That is the difference.
03:52Intermediates and then a drying track on the slicks.
03:55Nearly five seconds between Bottas and Lewis Hamilton.
03:58Joe Guanyu puts in his lap just behind his teammate by half a second.
04:02Kevin Magnussen now goes second fastest for Haas.
04:061.32.4.
04:07That's not a bad lap time at all for Valtteri Bottas.
04:10But half a second quicker than him is Nico Hülkenberg.
04:13And if the rain doesn't come, we now will start to get laps go faster and faster.
04:18Because the dry line is going to get drier as we go around.
04:22Stroll goes 10th fastest.
04:23Alonso second fastest behind Hülkenberg.
04:26Piastri to cross the line next.
04:27Goes quickest overall.
04:29Martin?
04:29Weirdly, a pit lane incident involving both Aston Martins.
04:34Did they find a gap to get into the queue that was too small?
04:37And Max Verstappen going off.
04:39But carrying on.
04:40Running off into the gravel.
04:42But that is not the smooth ride that Verstappen wanted.
04:46His teammate, Perez, out of qualifying after going off at Copse.
04:50Verstappen going off at Copse as well.
04:52This is where Verstappen went off at Copse.
04:56They had exactly the same situation, didn't he?
04:59As Perez, but kept it together.
05:07Sonoda crosses the line.
05:08Can't improve.
05:0918th fastest.
05:11That is good news for Max Verstappen, who is 15th at the moment.
05:15Stroll goes ahead of him.
05:16So Russell's 37.2, which is his second fastest time.
05:20And everybody's struggling into Copse corner now.
05:23Is that going to make the barriers?
05:24No, he's wrestled it on to a little bit of a service road there.
05:28Logan Sargent might have hit the jackpot then.
05:31He's gone sixth fastest.
05:32Hamilton fastest in the middle sector of all.
05:36Alonso into the top three.
05:38And that lap by Max Verstappen.
05:40He's now ninth fastest as Hamilton goes quickest.
05:43Norris is in the pit though.
05:44Norris has pitted.
05:46He's not out there at the moment.
05:48Checkered flag falling.
05:49These laps will count.
05:50Russell into the top two.
05:53And where is Charles Leclerc?
05:54Coming through the Vale chicane.
05:56Currently only 14th quickest.
05:59Matt, of course, who was on pole here.
06:01Sorry, he was third on the grid here a couple of years ago.
06:04Goes third now, does Charles Leclerc.
06:06Sonoda carrying on doing well.
06:08That's a super lap by Joe Guan Yu.
06:10Pushes Kevin Magnussen down now into the bottom five.
06:14And Sonoda towards the Vale chicane.
06:18This could be good news for him and bad news for Valtteri Bottas.
06:22Two-time pole sitter Bottas.
06:24He might get knocked out in Q1.
06:25He does get knocked out in Q1.
06:27Sonoda goes sixth fastest.
06:30Then he can just floor it down for his builds.
06:32The car squashes into the ground.
06:34But look at that.
06:35Only fourth for Max Verstappen.
06:37And he lost two tenths to Oscar Piastri in the middle sector.
06:40Piastri did have the fastest time
06:42until Carlos Sainz crossed the line in his Ferrari.
06:45Lewis Hamilton also lost time during the middle part of the lap.
06:48And he can only cross the line eighth fastest overall.
06:52Not the opening lap in this qualifying two session
06:55that he would have wanted.
06:56Meanwhile, George Russell is another
06:58who hasn't necessarily found the time he wanted on this lap.
07:02And I wonder, as he crosses the line in 13th,
07:05is this Mercedes as Norris goes quickest overall?
07:08Here's George Russell, slowest on the board currently.
07:10Crosses the line and stays on the fringes of elimination there.
07:16Only ninth fastest for George Russell.
07:19Alex Albon goes into the top four with Charles Leclerc.
07:24Did that look like he had enough grip there?
07:26Yeah, he was fair bouncing nicely through there, wasn't he?
07:29But once again, the Ferrari not showing incredible pace.
07:34There's a long gravel section at Copse.
07:37How costly will that be by the time qualifying finishes?
07:40Niko Hülkenberg goes fastest overall
07:43by nearly a tenth of a second from Oscar Piastri.
07:45He's a tenth behind Lando Norris, now fastest in the middle sector.
07:48Russell goes quickest by eight one hundredths of a second
07:51from Niko Hülkenberg.
07:53Next to cross the line, Joe Guan Yu stays in the bottom five.
07:56He's got time for one more lap to put that right.
07:59Lewis Hamilton next to cross the line by four thousandths of a second.
08:03Slots in behind his teammate, George Russell.
08:06And here comes Lando Norris to go quickest overall.
08:10And Piastri is about a tenth and a half off his teammate, Lando Norris.
08:13Charles Leclerc, only seventh fastest as he crosses the line
08:16with his final run in Q2.
08:18And his teammate, Carlos Sainz, goes fifth fastest.
08:21But here comes Verstappen to try and get into that top ten.
08:24He does. Finds the pace in the final sector.
08:27Goes sixth fastest.
08:28That'll be OK to get him through into Q3.
08:32George Russell will be next to come around the final corner.
08:35Second fastest.
08:36That's not going to worry Charles Leclerc.
08:38Lance Stroll's time, Mike, though.
08:40Here comes Stroll.
08:41And Charles Leclerc is out of qualifying.
08:43The Aston Martin goes through at the expense of the Ferrari.
08:47Stroll into the top ten.
08:48Leclerc is out in Q2.
08:52Yes, we're out.
08:56It's absolute neck and neck with these thoroughbreds
08:58as Lando Norris pulls ahead in the middle sector.
09:01Verstappen's time is a 1.26.3.
09:03That's what they're all chasing.
09:05Next around the final corner is Oscar Piastri,
09:08who goes faster than Max Verstappen.
09:10There's a tenth of a second in it.
09:11He goes on to provisional pole.
09:14Alonso goes third fastest.
09:16Here's Lando Norris fighting his car around the final corner.
09:19Norris goes on to provisional pole by a few tenths of a second.
09:24Hamilton fastest of anybody in the first sector on this current lap.
09:28He's flying along too.
09:29Sainz pops into fourth place now.
09:32And then apply the throttle.
09:34Then floor the throttle.
09:35The line comes up quickly.
09:37And second place for Hamilton.
09:39Which would be that 11th front row start at Silverstone
09:42if he can hang on to that second place.
09:44George Russell goes quickest, though, by six.
09:47One thousandth of a second.
09:50George Russell, who was on pole in Canada,
09:52now is on provisional pole in his home race.
09:55Here comes Verstappen round the final corner.
09:58Verstappen goes fourth fastest.
10:00Before that, Hülkenberg, sixth fastest.
10:02That will be Haas and Hülkenberg's best start in the season so far.
10:05Here comes Lewis Hamilton, though, through the final corner.
10:09Is it good enough for pole? It is!
10:10Provisional pole for Lewis Hamilton by three one hundredths of a second.
10:16And the crowd are loving that.
10:17But George Russell, through the middle sector,
10:19had an advantage over his team.
10:21And he's back on pole again.
10:23George Russell snatches pole from Lewis Hamilton.
10:26Can Norris do anything about it now?
10:28He is pitted.
10:29It's a Mercedes 1-2 on the grid at Silverstone.
10:34It's a British 1-2-3 for the first time ever.
10:38And a British Grand Prix.
10:40The home boys have done the home fans an absolute treat
10:45on this Saturday afternoon.
10:46Nice job.
10:47Super bar.
10:48Pole position, mate.
10:50Woo-hoo-hoo!
10:52You don't believe me!
10:54Is it a 1-2?
10:55A 1-2.
10:57Yes!
11:01Nice one, team!
11:04Woo-hoo!
11:06Race to win tomorrow.