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00:00That's where he's won Le Mans and the World Championships.
00:02We're now looking back at the brilliant visor cam of the Turn 11 hairpin,
00:08where you always miss the apex intentionally because it's a slightly banked corner,
00:12but a bit leery on the exit there.
00:16So, yeah, you've got to watch out for that,
00:18because that lives with you all the way up, that momentum all the way up the hill.
00:21Maybe sometime...
00:22Initial balance feeling, looks a little bit nervous, low speed perhaps.
00:25First off, Furukawa.
00:27He's happy.
00:29So good, the car is balanced.
00:30Sort something out on the rear suspension.
00:32You have to jack the car up to get to it,
00:35but that job is more or less done now,
00:37and it looks like Behrmann will rejoin the track.
00:41Double points.
00:42Behrmann's just been garage-bound for a few minutes.
00:44And Haas, I'm led to believe, Ted,
00:46fast-forwarding some of their development work for this year
00:50to bring upgrades floor-wise for this weekend.
00:54All-time best lap here, by the way.
00:561.27.0, Sebastian Vettel in 2019.
01:00I dare say that could be under threat this year
01:02by the time we really get going in earnest.
01:06Lando Norris through the chicane.
01:10He's always been aggressive.
01:12Sorry, he's always been aggressive over those kerbs, isn't he, Lando Norris?
01:16How is the balance that lap?
01:17The balance is okay.
01:19To be honest, I'm not really pushing it up yet.
01:20But I think it's okay.
01:22To feel the limit of his car.
01:25They head off to their new partnership with Aston Martin.
01:30Is it because he's a Honda driver?
01:36Is it because he's a Honda driver
01:39that Red Bull kind of overlooked him a little bit?
01:42If Honda were staying around for a couple more years,
01:45would he have been in that seat for Australia, for instance?
01:47Well, he got into Red Bull and the family because of Honda.
01:51Yeah, the teams are well-equipped these days
01:54to come to a circuit with all that knowledge.
01:59We worked out, Jacques...
02:00Box, box, box, box, box.
02:03We are at the beginning of the pit lane.
02:06Yeah, it's the championship winning teams are all at the end.
02:12I forgot he wasn't at Ferrari anymore.
02:14I forgot he wasn't at Ferrari and forgot that he was at Suzuki.
02:18You must have got into the wrong pit box at some stage.
02:21I'm trying to remember if it happened.
02:23I spun in the pit lane, that I remember.
02:27I don't remember if I stopped at the wrong place.
02:29But, you know, he spent how many years at Ferrari?
02:31How many years stopping in one place?
02:33And drivers have a lot of memory.
02:34And a lot of the driving happens with memory.
02:36So he gets in the pit and he forgot he wasn't winning.
02:38He just drove, OK, every time in Suzuki, what do I do?
02:41I go to the end of the pit lane.
02:42And yeah, one of the sensors at the rear was giving us some dodgy data.
02:47So Mike came out and cleaned the sensor and the car went back out again.
02:52Talking of data, how's the correlation looking
02:55between your brand new wind tunnel,
02:57still hasn't got any dust on it yet,
02:59and what you're seeing at the track?
03:02That's a big topic for every aerodynamicist, correlation.
03:06The challenge of CFD to wind tunnel to track.
03:09To correlate, to make sure it's the same as the other wind tunnel.
03:12What you see in the wind tunnel, does it work on the racetrack?
03:14How does the driver actually feel it?
03:16That takes a long time.
03:18It's a brilliant facility.
03:19That was a bit aggressive once again from Lando Norris.
03:22After an Australia, the bar one corner was also pretty perfect.
03:27Yes, true.
03:29But that one corner cost him so much.
03:31He's been on pace for the first two races.
03:34Last year, we saw a bit of a yo-yo, you know, up and down.
03:37Some races impressive, some others off the pace.
03:40It wasn't constant.
03:41And like he said himself, and he comes off a win.
03:44Exactly.
03:44And with all due respect to Alex Albon,
03:46who had his 29th birthday in Shanghai,
03:48I don't think we have come closer to getting a third member
03:52of the birthday club for quite some time.
03:54Sonoda goes second fastest.
03:56I don't know whether he's actually had the time to do that yet.
03:59You can look at data from inside the car when you come into the pits,
04:03but it would have only been a brief moment.
04:06He'll get more of a...
04:06Whoa, that's another moment there for Norris.
04:10I think the problem is here, guys,
04:11is that he keeps hitting that right kerb too much in 16th.
04:16So they have a good read now on what the car band should be in.
04:20Oh, big lock up from Alex Albon.
04:22That's the hairpin.
04:24And we saw in China how damaging it was for cars to follow each other.
04:30Yeah.
04:30And to go back to our, you know, how the races were won,
04:34they were won by pole sitters because they could control that race
04:37because they managed to destroy the cars behind them.
04:41That was a lot tidier, wasn't it?
04:44Much more like it.
04:44No visual disturbance.
04:47No disturbance.
04:48And goes fastest on the soft tyre.
04:51Still didn't claim the fastest sector of all in the third sector.
04:55So, yeah, it's still a little bit of work to do for McLaren and from Lando
04:59as Hamilton goes P4.
05:01Fernando Alonso going...
05:04I think it's the tape flying on the hood, on the front.
05:07There was, yeah, a little tape flap.
05:10Yeah, there is.
05:10You can just see by the number 14.
05:13It's not good for aero at speed.
05:16Would he see that?
05:18Very easily could have gone off and sent him into the barrier.
05:20We're going to see here with Max Verstappen coming into the final chicane.
05:24Is it traffic related?
05:26No, it's just a lock up.
05:27Cold front, right front tyre there.
05:30No harm done with that one on a prep lap.
05:34But yeah, with Antonelli, who currently, by the way,
05:36hangs on to the fastest final sector.
05:39I wondered who had that when we saw Norris's close DRS
05:43via the steering wheel button instead of normally you'd lift off or brake
05:48and the DRS closes because of that.
05:51So, yeah, it's a little bit of a unique circuit design
05:55and not really integrated that well with DRS.
05:59Obviously, you can't run DRS before 130R for the same reason.
06:03So you're a little bit stuck with this circuit and where you can use it.
06:07That's why we only have the one zone.
06:09And even that is tricky.
06:11Yeah.
06:12Just on that subject then, we had the same, didn't we,
06:15down the Sir Lewis Hamilton straight at Silverstone?
06:18We did have.
06:19I mean, it's been the same for him every lap that he's gone into there.
06:22But here's the replay.
06:23Let's have a listen to this.
06:27Yeah, it's just grabbed the front left, hasn't it?
06:30Similar to what Albon suffered.
06:32Yeah, locked up.
06:34Excuse me, of his teammates, Esteban Ocon.
06:37Lock up from Carlos Sainz.
06:38He's not going to be using those tyres for very much longer anyway.
06:42Into the chicane.
06:44He just doesn't look at home, does he?
06:46It doesn't look like he's at home in this car yet.
06:48And I'm sure it will come.
06:50He's an experienced driver and obviously incredibly fast and well accomplished.
06:57Is that blooming marvellous for Lando Norris?
07:00We'll find out on Sunday, I'm sure.
07:02Tenth and a half between the McLaren driver and championship leader.
07:06And George Russell, who's picked up a couple of podiums in his first two races this season.
07:10Charles Leclerc, third, fourth Ferrari ahead of his teammate, Lewis Hamilton.
07:14Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda separated by a tenth of a second in fifth and sixth.
07:18Then came Fernando Alonso and Isaac Hadja.
07:22Impressive showing from him.
07:24Kimi Antonelli and Carlos Sainz completed the top ten.
07:27Sainz having it all his own way.
07:29But he did have more pace over that push lap than his teammate, Alex Albon.
07:33It was 11th fastest.
07:34Ryu Hirakawa can put his feet up now for the rest of the weekend.
07:38His FP1 is done.
07:39Liam Lawson, 13th on his return to Racing Bulls.
07:43And it was Gabriel Bortoletto who brought up the rear.
07:46Just 1.6 seconds separating all 20 drivers.
07:50That's FP1 done and dusted.