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00:00I think a box for a new helmet, this visor is completely...
00:05There's something completely wrong with this visor.
00:08Okay, so you can't see.
00:10Copy.
00:12Has he got... Does he need a bit of a darker tint on there?
00:16Is the sun in his eyes?
00:18An enormous crash to the left-hand side on what's quite a small pad.
00:23We've got a lock-up here on the hatch.
00:25He's made his way to the back of the car and hustled to the throttle.
00:29My goodness, the drivers are going for it through here.
00:32Occasionally they try to get traction, they just can't.
00:35It's not such a high line.
00:37Car not happy over the bump under heavy acceleration.
00:40He has to... Again, heavy on the throttle.
00:43Car's just trying to step out.
00:45Long strolls through.
00:47And it's just action all the way through here.
00:50As I said, they will not go anywhere near the inside of this corner.
00:55It's really bad. Highly unusual.
00:57It was not handling as well as he wanted.
01:02So back to you, Crofty. I'm in a lovely spot here.
01:05You're at Hoogenholtz. That's what we're going to call it now.
01:08Named after the legendary designer, of course, responsible for this track.
01:11And also for Suzuka.
01:13That is Sergio Perez, who's just gone off into the gravel in a run-off area.
01:17He's not the only driver, though, that's been off the track.
01:20What caused that, I wonder?
01:22It's the unloaded tyre, as is this one, into Turn 1 with Sergio Perez.
01:27I must try a little to stop the car into Turn 1.
01:29Yeah, copy that.
01:32And we know that you've got a big tailwind into Turn 1 here.
01:36So that, I think, goes some way to explain what happened with Perez.
01:41With Russell's run, I'm a bit more surprised.
01:44We saw it in the wet conditions. Holkenberg went off there.
01:47It looked like a similar incident, but in the rain,
01:50other things are happening, obviously, tyre temperatures.
01:53And I think it was an outlap with Holkenberg.
01:56But, yeah, it's very gusty out there, of course.
01:58It may have caught Russell out as well.
02:04We've already seen Max Verstappen locking up his teammate into Turn 1.
02:07But now problems to the rear of the car.
02:10Let's have a look at this.
02:12Oh, and that's on the exit of Skyflok, isn't it?
02:14Turn 7. Just losing the rear end here.
02:17We're right on board with him.
02:18So you look to tuck it into the inside.
02:20A little bit wide, and it's very dusty, as we know, on this circuit.
02:24We're going to take another look at this one, but this time from the off-board.
02:28So, yeah, the inside front. It's just the unloaded wheel.
02:31And, yeah, he did well there to stay on the track.
02:35It's a shame, because his preparation lap, he was actually looking quite good, Charles Leclerc, there.
02:39And then, well, ruined.
02:41And then going into Tarzan, the first corner.
02:43George Russell goes second fastest, tenth behind Max Verstappen.
02:46Lewis Hamilton crosses the line, goes quickest by three-tenths of a second,
02:50over Verstappen and George Russell.
02:52Lewis Hamilton, along with Oskar Piastri, the joint top scorer in the last four races,
02:58for what would be a 32nd different track that he's won a race at in his Formula 1 career.
03:04Now, as the Ferrari came in...
03:07I hope that wasn't so much thought, I just ran over there.
03:10No, George, it was a cone. You're fine.
03:12And that, I'm afraid, is Nico Hülkenberg against the barriers,
03:16and that is a red flag.
03:18Down at Turn 1, and Hülkenberg's gone deep in the Haas.
03:22You mentioned it, Ann, we saw him go off the track early on in the rain,
03:26cold tyres, brakes were grabbing, and he's facing the wrong way.
03:30At the moment, I think you can see the marks on the track,
03:35where he's had the brakes, he's spun round and into the barrier,
03:39and we hope that Nico Hülkenberg is OK.
03:42That is him, obviously, out of this second practice session.
03:46He looks to be physically fine, but that's his session over.
03:50So here we go, riding on board.
03:52I should imagine he's going to try and turn in deep into the corner.
03:55Oh, no, it's just the rear that's gone on him.
03:57That's a big surprise.
03:58So, well, for me, it looked like he was just a bit of a passenger there.
04:02So not driver error, and I can't believe that was wind-induced either.
04:07That was a severe snap-around.
04:09Unless he's dipped to left rear on the grass as he's turned in,
04:12that just went around way too quick for any driver to react to.
04:15He's won here in Formula BMW ADAC, his first season in racing.
04:21A1 GP, Euro F3 as well.
04:25He's found himself into the barriers there, and I'm with you, Ann,
04:29little or nothing Nico Hülkenberg could do to get out of that.
04:34I'm just trying to see, does he dip a wheel on the grass?
04:36I'm just trying to see the edge of the track here.
04:38I don't think he's anywhere close to now.
04:40I don't know what happened there.
04:41Yeah, I don't know either, Nico.
04:43Yeah, we're having a look.
04:45Is the rear completely locked up?
04:47Yeah.
04:48Is that a brake-by-wire issue?
04:51I should imagine so.
04:53Unless it's something mechanical in the braking system.
04:56Either way, you can completely discard driver error being anything to do with that incident.
05:02Norris open, flat out through the final corner, hug the inside,
05:06try and minimize the line, and back on to the main straight.
05:09At quite a short circuit, a one-minute 10.986 for Verstappen,
05:14but Norris is right behind him.
05:17As Bottas goes third fastest, such is the improvement once you get the soft tyres on.
05:21Norris crosses the line, goes quicker by two hundredths of a second.
05:2625 milliseconds.
05:28George Russell goes a little bit wide there, but he shouldn't have lost too much time.
05:31Ricciardo goes eighth fastest, Magnussen sixth fastest,
05:34Alonso fifth, Sunoda fourth, and now George Russell,
05:37quickest overall by six one-hundredths of a second.
05:40Let's just listen to this first.
05:42Check the gearbox.
05:44Do something with your gearbox.
05:46Copy.
05:47Stay in seventh gear.
05:53Yeah, so he's obviously felt something.
05:55It could have been in the hydraulics or the gearbox itself.
05:59McLaren have made, I mean, they were the first team really, weren't they,
06:02to step it up and bring upgrades that really made a difference
06:06as we ride on board with George Russell through the second-to-last corner.
06:09KSK left the door after exit kerb, turn 13.
06:15A-firm.
06:17Yeah, I think you spotted it at the time, didn't you, Bob D?
06:20Yeah.
06:21And you could see the sparks fly, the resin plank that they use as well.
06:25Has the wind picked up?
06:27No, we don't see anything on the wind.
06:32It's gusting. That's the trouble.
06:34It still is strong, but it hasn't got any stronger, I think.
06:37But sometimes it'll drop off and then gust back up again.
06:41Didn't, as you say, let's just see this again from Ricciardo and Joe.
06:46Oh, yeah, that's pretty much how it was for Albonen and for Stroll.
06:51Yeah, I think this one actually looked even more aggressive, didn't it,
06:55a bit closer for these two than it was for Albonen.
06:58It was more of an aggressive cut into the fast lane.
07:02In the back of the garage, looking through that video on an iPad,
07:05trying to figure out why that stop was slow,
07:08what they can do the next time the car comes in
07:10just to try and improve it and get it a little bit cleaner
07:13because it was quite slow.
07:15Charles Leclerc throws his Ferrari down the inside.
07:19And Sergio Perez is, I thought it was only a practice session.
07:23And for one moment, Perez was like, I'm going to take the inside line.
07:26Oh, no, I'm not, because there's a Ferrari right there.
07:29George Russell, he's bounced back after the disappointment
07:31of disqualification in Belgium to head up the times in second practice
07:36by six one hundredths of a second from Oscar Piastri
07:39and a tenth of a second from Lewis Hamilton.
07:41Now, those three came out about seven minutes later
07:44for their qualifying simulations.
07:46Lando Norris was out at the same time as Max Verstappen
07:49and they were separated by 25 thousandths of a second.
07:52Alonso, Sunoda, Magnussen, Leclerc and Albon completing the top ten.
07:56Sergio Perez finds himself outside of that top ten then.
08:00And for Carlos Sainz and Nico Hülkenberg,
08:03no running whatsoever on the soft tyre.
08:05Accident at turn one for Hülkenberg, gearbox issue for Carlos Sainz.
08:10It stayed dry for second practice.
08:12We had some decent action out there as well.
08:14And it's George Russell who ends the day as the fastest man on track.