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00:00This is Oskar Piastri.
00:06Ah, this is the yellow flag we had at 7.8.
00:08Yeah.
00:11There's just no grip out there.
00:13I was going to say, I'm waiting for his radio message.
00:14There's no grip.
00:16Yeah, I mean...
00:16Everyone at the same point.
00:17At the moment, they're sort of four seconds away
00:20from the pace we saw last year in FP1.
00:24So, yeah, it's...
00:27The track evolution would be high.
00:30As the temperatures will keep plummeting,
00:33it's already lost 2.5 degrees from when we started.
00:36I'll give him the top 8.
00:37Let's say top 8.
00:38He was in the top 10 last year.
00:41Come on, come on.
00:42You were with your predictions.
00:44Follow through, follow through on it.
00:46Listen, what's going on with the Alpines?
00:48They are now going to actually set a time,
00:51but they're just seeing the drivers, you know,
00:54experienced enough getting that second and third places
00:56in the wet of Brazil.
00:58I've just realized there's no point pushing the car.
01:00I think Esteban Ocon on the radio, Rachel,
01:02was saying that he's never known grip so low as this.
01:06Yellow flag in 6.2, but it's all clear.
01:10Jaguanyu rumored to be joining Ferrari
01:12as a reserve development driver for next season now,
01:15now that the other seat at Saba has gone.
01:19Scary how easy it is to lock an outside front.
01:22Yeah.
01:23That's what's very, very unusual.
01:25It's a weighted front.
01:29I think it is, but there's a bump, I guess.
01:31Yeah.
01:32But I think the other thing is here, though,
01:34with these cold temperatures and the cold air going through,
01:37actually getting the right brake temperatures
01:39is going to be a challenge, isn't it?
01:41You could really make a mistake with where you go with the setup.
01:44So it's more about ride heights and the simple stuff, really.
01:48I was going to say, what can you learn, team?
01:56And traffic.
01:57Yes.
01:58Getting out of the way.
01:59You know what I'm interested to see is what happens
02:01with Mercedes over this weekend,
02:03because one thing we've seen on a number of other weekends
02:06this year is they are quick on a Friday.
02:12What's happening to Max down here?
02:14Let's see.
02:17Is this where we had this momentary...
02:18Yeah, look up for Max.
02:19So he went off.
02:20That would have been the momentary yellow flag
02:22that we saw in that final sector put back on track.
02:25But even Max struggling out there with that lock-up right now.
02:32It reminds me of when you go winter testing in Barcelona.
02:35Yeah.
02:36You know, that first run, nine in the morning or something,
02:38and it's just so cold, you can't get anything to work
02:41for the first couple of hours.
02:42It looks like that.
02:43That's the replay, isn't it?
02:44Yeah, of Corvinto coming in,
02:46just missing the start of that entry line.
02:51Oh, here we go.
02:52This is the onboard.
02:56He's done the same, Alex Albon.
03:07The pit entry line is almost impossible to see.
03:11Yeah, understood.
03:13Oh, there he is.
03:14You're right.
03:15There are too many white lines.
03:16Yeah, they're everywhere.
03:17It needs to be yellow, doesn't it?
03:20No, it just needs a big, thick yellow line.
03:23I'm serious.
03:24Or just delete the white ones.
03:25Yeah, something to stand out.
03:30That's going to happen again to someone else.
03:32Yeah.
03:33It needs a big, fat yellow line.
03:35Look how dirty it is.
03:36I mean, just to take some of the dust off the tech pro barrier
03:41at the end here.
03:42It is just hanging in the air,
03:44but that's all the work that's been done to transform
03:47the strip and all these other roads into a racetrack.
03:50This was a reason for the brief yellow finish.
03:54I just snatched the inside front, didn't he?
03:57The weird thing with these lockups is that they're so early on
04:00in the braking, which is tricky for a driver.
04:02You know, sometimes you get a bit of front locking
04:04halfway through or towards the end,
04:05but that's when he's hit the brakes,
04:07when you have so much downforce.
04:09It's really unusual for that to happen.
04:11We, you know, still, it seems like,
04:14and that could just again come back to what I was saying before,
04:17a bit more preserved on the engine mode.
04:19And look, he's lost actually time.
04:21He did.
04:22Two and a half tenths in that last sector.
04:24You know what?
04:25I'm still baffled he's not ended up in a Mercedes
04:27or a Red Bull for next year.
04:29Yeah.
04:30Oh, that was ugly.
04:32Oof.
04:33He was, he still went quickest.
04:35He was quickest, but probably held his breath
04:38a little bit there at that moment.
04:40So down the, down the strip towards 14.
04:43And you can see just in the distance now,
04:45he's there.
04:46There's a car who gets out of the way.
04:48That's the Haas.
04:49And then, then he catches the Williams up at the chicane.
04:53A little bit of a wobble under braking,
04:55but then didn't quite realise what the Williams was going to do.
05:00Yeah, Gatsby, you know, some...
05:02Right, the wheel has this production issue.
05:08The radio went off by itself.
05:11Understood, Max.
05:15Maybe too much of a turn.
05:17Too much of a turn.
05:18No, we're good.
05:19No, it's good.
05:21Yeah, that's worth a game attempt, isn't it?
05:261.35.6 then for George ahead of Lando's 1.35.9.
05:30Yeah, that's why they've been struggling.
05:32A little technical problem on Juki's car
05:34and Lawson's been struggling with some graining.
05:36Tire grating.
05:37Thank you, Ted.
05:38They're back on the mediums now as well.
05:39They've got glitter in their paint too.
05:41That was close.
05:42Esteban, yeah, having a bit of a fright there.
05:44Hey, I had to brake there.
05:49He certainly did.
05:50Used a lot of kerb there through the second apex.
05:52Quite an aggressive line through there.
05:55And now purple in the second sector.
05:58Now all he's got to do is just
06:00small little steering angle through that last corner
06:02and cross the line and go,
06:03oh, almost four tenths quicker than George.
06:05That was a great lap.
06:06Great lap, wasn't it?
06:07Really, really good lap.
06:08The iconic Las Vegas Strip
06:10and we will be racing around it Saturday night.
06:12Remember, it's a Saturday night race here,
06:14early hours in the UK on Sunday morning.
06:16But Lewis Hamilton, quickest overall in the Mercedes.
06:19Three tenths quicker than his teammate, George Russell.
06:21Well, two of them almost a second ahead of Lando Norris.
06:24That's the quickest and best of the rest.
06:26Charles Leclerc in the Ferrari.
06:27Fourth quickest there, Max Verstappen.
06:29The other Ferrari of Carlos Sainz.
06:30Fernando Alonso in the end, in the Aston,
06:32pulling himself all the way back up into P7.
06:35And Oscar Piastri in the upper.
06:37Clarence Piagasi on the podium in Brazil, of course.
06:39Ninth quickest in that session.
06:41Then Sergio Perez in the other Red Bull.
06:44Then we have the rest of the grid.
06:45Kevin Magnussen, the quicker of the two.
06:47Haas, Lance Stroll, Alex Albon,
06:49Esteban Ocon, Nico Hülkenberg,
06:51Valtteri Bottas, Franco Colopinto.
06:54Much talked about.
06:55P17 for him today.
06:56Ben Flanigo in the Sabre.
06:58And the two RBs, Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson,
07:01rounding out the 20th, 19th and 20th quickest
07:04in that first session here in Las Vegas.
07:06Join us later for second practice.