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00:00I mean he I've spoke to him yesterday. How's the track?
00:03Oh, it's pretty wild with the wind
00:09It's a rough old ride for hulkenberg
00:13Yes, this is x in turn nine he makes a uh
00:17Mode change there and then just locks the inside front. It's just a classic case of the the tires cold there
00:22And so maybe a slight lapse of concentration as well because he'd just changed the the modes to push mode
00:28Which I I guess would have given him more power for the next lap
00:31But yeah, that's the bit I saw and he picked him up on the approach back onto the circuit
00:35It's really really tough to get into and I mean jack is a great, you know story
00:39Let's just see as carlos goes. Oh big puddle of water there on the inside of the curb
00:45But uh, yeah bouncing around there
00:47Cutting curves trying to make a straighter line out of that
00:50I mean turns 14 and and turn three weren't quite as extreme as they are right now and even then it felt
00:56Different to most circuits
00:57So now the way it is over the last couple of years is is really really intense banking and it's tough on the neck for sure
01:04that's um the the front, uh right this time for uh
01:08Hulkenberg just grabbed again. So we saw the front left grab on the inside
01:12Upgrades to the front of the car this weekend
01:14yeah, this wouldn't be anything to do with the upgrade this is just purely just the tires being cold, but
01:19We often see this team struggle with braking don't we and uh, especially in cold conditions and outlaps for example
01:26And this hulkenberg again just struggling to slow the car down and stopping the front from locking up
01:32Lifts his hand and a bit of confusion then from him as well. It doesn't look normal. Yeah
01:36the inside wheel to be breaking more so
01:40Particularly on the rear to help steer the car around the inside rear would break more to turn you into the corner
01:46In the drier conditions if you've got a car balance that's quite nervous twitchy if it's too positive when you turn in
01:51You want the outside brake because it's a loaded wheel and you want the car to stop rotating so much
01:59so
02:00It would be a quite a big advantage
02:02The pressure is going to be on his shoulders. It's just the nature of formula one. You've got to deliver
02:08Indeed indeed. Oh, what was that spin there just took the curb on the inside of turn 11. I don't think any harm is done
02:15Clips it with the rear and the crowd cheering his uh, impressive pirouette as he gets the car turned around and gets going again
02:20But yeah, he just he just clicked the inside curb
02:24I'm sure they will adjust accordingly for the rest of the weekend. This is max again
02:27This is the yeah that was on that same lap actually started the lap
02:31Uh getting dangerously close to the outside of turn one and then we got a replay of the moment down towards turn 11
02:36Braking turns the car in normally hits the curb and it was just that that threw the car around
02:42And uh, yeah your first push lap, uh on those tires
02:45It's something that i'm sure all of the other drivers would have been looking at and taking note from
02:49That when they go out inevitably on the inters to maybe not take that curb as aggressively as they were on the full wet
02:56They're at alpine as one of his drivers
03:00And turn one straight away pierre gasly after that great lap. He's just put in
03:05Pushing a bit too hard into the tarzan corner
03:08It's an incredibly important one, isn't it for good and for bad?
03:11Yeah, I think the relationship between reese engineer and driver. We talk so much about it
03:15You know, we've seen lewis has just come into the garage and i'm bonham's talking directly to him
03:19And that is it's a very valuable relationship, but it is that relationship over the weekend
03:24You know that starts again here on a wednesday and you work quite closely with them
03:27But you work much much more closely with the other engineers in the garage with the mechanics all around you with the team back at bradley
03:35You know bonham's relationship with that side of it with the entire mercedes team
03:40He probably spends a lot more time with those people than he does directly with lewis
03:44And that is one of the deciding factors
03:46We often don't see reese engineers move with drivers because they have more of a commitment to the team
03:52And obviously, you know from a family side of point point of view the move to italy is quite a big one
03:56It's not just like moving down the road to milton kings
04:00Great stuff. Thank you. Bernie. Um, just hearing that actually gusts
04:03Display of where you want to place the car
04:06And through this final corner of turn 14 that 19 degree banked corner
04:11Sends you back onto the start finish straight three sets three seconds up and one minute 17 on the wall. Fernando norris
04:19George russell you can see there four tenths down if you have to be nine times up that your tires might
04:23Lose out on from lap to lap as they degrade
04:27There is there's more time to be found basically by the track improving and you improving. You can't read anything yet
04:32No, no, definitely not that that's going to come when the track's fully dry and the drivers are more up to speed
04:40It's like tricky last part of the lap again there wasn't it just full deployment for the lap
04:45Uh, they obviously can give you quite a bit more of an advantage if you're not harvesting too much
04:50norris
04:52On a driver lap ends his lap just a tenth and a half away to go p3
04:58And what can norris do
05:011 14 5 first driver to get in the 1 14s
05:06Stabbing also looks just behind sign. We saw signs go past and it looks like he's trying to find himself
05:11A little bit of a gap. It seems he's just abandoned that second lap to find that gap
05:17It's going again five minutes to go russell goes quickest into the 1 13
05:24Crescendo in 2021 happened that we all remember so well
05:28Uh, but he enjoyed he relished the fight
05:30He loved it and I I feel like max is he's going to enjoy it as well
05:34He's not it since this has come back to the calendar
05:36He hasn't been lower than second in any session or qualifying segment at the dutch
05:40Sorry, he wasn't at the 2023 dutch grand prix such was their dominance around it
05:45But he hasn't won a race since spain
05:47It's a long run. It's a long run
05:49Yeah, you feel like he's due another win at some point whether it'll be this weekend or not yet to be seen
05:54But uh, george russell getting all crossed up on the x11. This is what I saw before with gasly and verstappen
06:00I looked a little bit worse actually off board than it was on board, but he still didn't like what gasly did as the hand goes up
06:08And they did say to us sitting there a few races ago we understand this car now we've got it
06:13We know what we've done to turn this corner
06:15So now it's just trying to continually improve on that as max goes quickest in the final sector
06:19And then lando norris pips into the line again by two tenths
06:23This is going to be a fascinating qualifying session. Whatever you have planned for your saturday afternoon
06:28Take your device with you or stay home and watch it because this is going to be a good one
06:32Lando topping the times then from max verstappen who was two tenths behind him two tenths slower in that session
06:38But times improving all the way through lewis hamilton, uh, six tenths behind them then came carlos sites and george russell
06:44Alex albon quick in lee williams just eight tenths off
06:47Norris nico hulkenberg and kevin magnusson both halves in the top 10 there in that session joke
06:52I knew that 10th quickest but uh over a second and a half
06:56behind
06:57And then we come to p11. Lance stroll was leading the rest of the 20 drivers
07:02He was 1.8 seconds behind lando norris and sergio pérez in the other red bull had a bit of traffic out there as well
07:08Though charles eclair both ferraris on the mediums. He was back 13th quickest ahead of yuki
07:13Sunoda fernando alonso good effort from robert schwarzman in the other salva in for valtteri potas in that session
07:19Then logan sergeant esteban ocon daniel ricardo and pierre gasly rounding out the 20 drivers will be back for second practice later