00:00through the corners and when you've got a lot of them you can go significantly quicker
00:03it's a 1.33.5 for Kimi Antonelli for his first time on the board
00:08crossing the line to start a lap is Lando Norris and there's George Russell
00:11as we mentioned a little bit behind his teammate and in fact round about eight tenths of a second
00:16behind his teammate when he crosses the line so Max Verstappen on the medium tyre moves into second
00:21towards the final corner turn 22 where his teammate went off in FP3 just hug that inside
00:29wall if you can let the car drift out wide third fastest on the mediums for Charles Leclerc but
00:33crucially ahead of George Russell and that problem time as you described it Martin Russell now finds
00:39himself in P5 with a lot of times improving behind him issue when he hit the wall there in FP3
00:47he's
00:48out on the track and his first lap time leaves him in the lower reaches Hulkenberg goes sixth and
00:53Gabriel Bortoletto puts his Audi into P3 a little twitchy there through turn 21 gets towards the end of his
01:01first proper times lap the finish line comes at you very quickly indeed he goes third fastest
01:08that leaves George Russell now down in P7 with that 1.34.3
01:13dare say Liam Lawson fancies going ahead of that as he crosses the line now and goes quickest by two
01:21and a
01:21half tenths over Kimi Antonelli and Red Bull then they've found some speed haven't they or they're
01:26showing their true speed because they haven't looked this competitive I don't think at any point
01:31you know I said turn 17 was a bit tricky there's Kimi Antonelli proving just why temperature at the
01:38moment 54 degrees got a lot of car behind you in the in a Formula One car now it's so
01:45easy to just
01:47swipe the rear wheel against the barrier if you're not careful and you can see them all just leaving
01:51a bit of a margin in this phase of qualifying what's happened to the pace of Arvid Lindblad he was
01:56up in
01:56the top four yesterday on the fringes of the relegation zone currently as Charles Leclerc goes third
02:02fastest seems to be struggling a bit in the racing balls both Tsunoda and Lindblad not having the pace
02:08that we saw 24 hours ago by a huge amount this is Kimi Antonelli and that moment at turn 17
02:14that
02:14we saw the lock-up came early it does remind me Martin of that turn at Sochi at the end
02:21of the
02:21the back straight so difficult to get your braking right yeah and you've got to as we see George
02:28Russell also struggling to slow his Mercedes down that's Nico Hülkenberg and so yeah it's it's a curious
02:37thing because you you're you're breaking in a left-hander for a right-hander and the fans in
02:42the grandstand and some of them are waving their fans let's have a little look here how much contact
02:48was made it was on basically he's looking right and he's just touched the wall on the left
03:01it still won't be uh quite the same as driving around it certainly won't Antonelli goes quickest by
03:07just half a tenth of a second ahead of Liam Lawson next across the line Alex Albon to start a
03:14lap
03:14here comes Carlos Sainz who moves ahead of Tsunoda and Lindblad only that is not giving him much
03:21breathing space at all Fernando Alonso pushes Lindblad into the relegation zone it goes into
03:26P15 Lawson closes the gap to Antonelli by about two milliseconds but he stays in P2 here comes Alex
03:35Albon next for Williams crosses the line and does move out of that bottom fire six and ahead of his
03:42teammate a Carlos Sainz Lindblad puts himself safe stopwatch on Gasly and Colopinto too
03:49Tsunoda finds himself in the relegation spot briefly Carlos Sainz sadly for him uh is into the bottom
03:56six and will be out of qualifying that is a big shame for the home driver and Alonso too the
04:03two
04:03Spaniards down there in 17th and 18th it certainly is not around the final corner Kimi Antonelli
04:1132-6 that's a little bit more like it in terms of times on the board George Russell will be
04:17next
04:18across the line a couple of tenths down uh behind his uh teammate and a double yellow flag uh being
04:24waves someone hit the wall uh somewhere it's not in this sector so Charles Leclerc can finish his lap
04:29goes third fastest half a second down on the two Mercedes Lewis Hamilton will be next to cross the
04:35line the yellow flag uh has stopped its waving which is good Hamilton uh on the soft tyre now along
04:42with his teammate here comes Yuki Tsunoda uh who uh is a P7 Pierre Gasly we've got a stopwatch on
04:48uh Lando Norris goes ahead of the two Ferraris looming interview here he is Max Verstappen quickest
04:56and makes it count by that half a tenth from Kimi Antonelli don't count out either of the
05:03two Red Bulls here as Liam Lawson uh goes P4 and he's only three tenths off the pace
05:08yeah and uh actually Lawson was a bit quicker in the final sector than Verstappen let's have a look
05:14at Franco Colopinto through monumental oh that was very nearly Martin Brundle a big monumental moment
05:22yeah it's hitting the ground isn't it and if you can't hit the ground you are the energy goes through
05:28the chassis instead of through the tyres Gasly hasn't done it Colopinto has though so we were
05:34looking at Lindblad yeah now he has got to complete the lap then Piastri Bortoletto uh goes P11
05:40which he hates being P11 but he's going to have to put up with that I'm afraid and that will
05:45make
05:46Piastri safe as Russell uh fifth and Max Verstappen still fastest now by a tenth and a half running
05:52another set of the new tyres Lando Norris meanwhile can't improve uh ends up four tenths off on some
06:00used soft tyres Lindblad goes into the top 10 again at the expense of Nico Hülkenberg and Yuki
06:08Tsunoda will be next across the line he is out of qualifying uh Esteban Ocon improves but only to go
06:17ahead of Gasly and uh and Albon and Tsunoda so sad don't get it 133 spooks a different car don't
06:27get it
06:29faster than George Russell by a tenth in the middle sector and faster by three tenths of Franco
06:34Colopinto a 132 one as he crosses the line is the time they've all got to beat he's on provisional
06:41pole George Russell next to cross the line slots in behind him not much of a difference Colopinto
06:46is p3 perhaps unsurprisingly but only a couple of sorry 1.2 seconds off the pace use tyres too for
06:54Colopinto Norris on new tyres third fastest and only third fastest on the new tyres we wonder
07:01was he using new then or or is his use set then Leclerc replaces him in p3 Lewis Hamilton on
07:08for
07:09provisional pole here and Lewis Hamilton on provisional pole by six one hundredths of a second
07:14the six times Spanish Grand Prix pole sitter puts his Ferrari fastest we're not into the 131s yet but
07:21Hamilton's come very very close to it Lawson next across the line only p6 dab on the throttle and
07:27then swing it in through this final turn where's Piastri on the grid provisionally on the third row
07:33and we look to see where Max Verstappen is Lewis Hamilton on provisional pole Max Verstappen down in fifth
07:40comes Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton into the pit lane they're gonna have to wait with Arvid Limblad
07:46because there's no way past the Mercedes that is that an unsafe release because they brought him
07:52out and Charles Leclerc almost had to go fully into the slow lane and definitely had to slow down
07:58Antonelli now to the final few corners Mercedes power trying to preserve their 100% record
08:04Antonelli at this new track would dearly love to be on pole crosses the line now he is on pole
08:09you know
08:09by two and a half tenths Kimi Antonelli the provisional pole sitter George Russell next across the line
08:16bit unsteady through the final corner that cost him he's sliding his way slingshotting his way out of
08:23that right hander he'll be the oldest pole sitter since Mario Andretti in 82 if he can make it
08:29Leclerc hasn't made it it's only p2 here comes Lewis Hamilton is he back on pole oh he's missed out
08:36Liam Lawson crosses the line goes fifth fastest what about Lando Norris though can he put his
08:42McLaren on pole for a third time in 2026 the defending champion to the line is on pole
08:48and it's the merest of margins 11 milliseconds car number one is currently p1 but there's
08:55Pecet Piastri and Verstappen to go to dislodge Lando Norris Piastri can't do it third row just for
09:02him it's Verstappen Spanish Grand Prix pole sitter in 2023 Spanish Grand Prix p3 in 2026 Verstappen
09:11falters Lando Norris for the first time this weekend McLaren on top when it counts most the first ever
09:20pole sitter at the mad ring is the defending champion Lando Norris yes oh what a lot
09:28of course the whole thing for the whole thing that was the bad thing for just for the
09:38guys order
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