00:00It's lights out and away we go, good reaction from Lando Norris, moves across to cut off Kimi Antonelli, Lewis
00:05Hamilton already up into third, trying to put pressure on the pole sitter, and wide goes Kimi Antonelli, wide goes
00:12Max Verstappen, Lando Norris behind Antonelli who must surely give that place back, and has.
00:17He wants to give it back straight away, it's his only chance to defend against Max Verstappen.
00:21And Verstappen is coming at Kimi Antonelli, Hamilton now down in fourth, there's Charles Leclerc, George Russell once again, Kimi
00:28Antonelli runs wide, two corners that he's run wide at in the first five.
00:32He's desperately trying to let Norris through, without letting Verstappen through, but he's already got two track limits against him.
00:39And Max Verstappen is through, so it's all gone a little bit wrong for Kimi Antonelli at the start, as
00:44Verstappen takes that second place.
00:46Lewis Hamilton saying Max has got to give the position back, because he too did run wide, but so far
00:52Max, well if he does give a position back, he's got to give two back, if he gained one on
00:56Lewis Hamilton.
00:57We'll have a look at that on the replay in a moment.
01:01Max, we think we should give the position back to Hamilton, so that will mean letting Antonelli through as well.
01:10That's not going to go down well, is it?
01:11No, not at all, he's been noted as well for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.
01:16What are you guys talking about? He would have shot it into me.
01:19Like, what are you guys talking about? If I just stay on the track, we are out of the race.
01:25Race control have got hold of the Red Bull.
01:28Pitlay has said, look, either you do it, or we'll sort it out.
01:32And he has done it, he's let Antonelli past, he's let Hamilton past, he's stayed ahead of Charles Leclerc.
01:37But he's immediately under pressure now from Charles Leclerc and Verstappen, but he does seem to be going a little
01:44bit slowly, does Lewis Hamilton.
01:46And he's going to be under pressure here from Max Verstappen, and that is an easy pass from Verstappen.
01:51Hamilton now picks up the toe. That looked like deployment problems as well.
01:55Seven braking zones on this track.
01:56If you've got a problem with the brakes, you know, it is not a track to have that on by
02:01any stretch.
02:02Charles Leclerc is going to pass Lewis Hamilton here, and does.
02:04Lewis really struggling to slow that Ferrari down. He's locked up as well now.
02:09Which is not what you want to see at all. We've got a yellow...
02:12He's gone off in there.
02:13Yep, the yellow flag flying in the final bit as Lewis goes off. There he is.
02:18And he's now down behind Oscar Piastri in 10th.
02:21Must surely come into the pits. No, he's going to carry on.
02:26I don't have brakes, guys.
02:29And you can tell, Ted Kravitz from the pit lane. Can you see the Ferrari pit wall?
02:33Yeah, now the mechanics come out to receive the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton.
02:37They've had brake overheating in the past.
02:40Maybe they just thought, look, if you try and cool them down, Lewis,
02:42maybe lift and coast quite a lot, try to get the temperatures under control,
02:46maybe they'll come back.
02:47But it doesn't look like they can.
02:49So it looks like he's coming in to retire.
02:51So here's the start then.
02:52Lando Norris moves over to the left-hand side.
02:55They thought that one out well at McLaren.
02:57Hamilton down the inside.
02:59Did Max get pushed off in the way that he was claiming?
03:03No, I can see why.
03:06I think he should have given that back.
03:08I can see why race control have said to the team,
03:11hey, sort it out.
03:12Otherwise, we'll sort it out for you.
03:14And so Antonelli then breaks too late for that chicane.
03:18Gains a humongous amount of time.
03:21He hasn't actually been noted for track limits there.
03:24But let's watch him.
03:27So he's going to stay on the brakes really late.
03:29Lando trying to make the corner.
03:33Lewis was in control.
03:34Max thought he was out of control, but Lewis was in control.
03:37I think Max should have given that back straight away.
03:39Would have been probably the better thing to do.
03:41Watch George Russell cut across here.
03:43That's the contact made not once, but twice with Oscar Piastri.
03:48He locks up and it pretty much destroys that front left end plate on his front wing.
03:54Yeah, not a lot Oscar could have done about that, is there really?
03:56I mean, he had to go down the outside.
03:58He had to go through the gap.
03:59You can't slow down.
04:00He'd be somebody running to the back of you.
04:02On board now with Carlos Sainz,
04:04who was briefly under investigation for a collision with Yuki Tsunoda.
04:09The stewards have decided no further action.
04:11There is Tsunoda on the right-hand side.
04:13And there's your contact.
04:15Sainz kind of had to move into the middle a little bit,
04:17but the stewards have said that's a racing incident.
04:20In the race for a lunge.
04:21Is there a lunge maybe from Fernando Alonso?
04:24He's good at lunges, isn't he?
04:25He's trying, you know, he's trying.
04:27Oh, he's made contact.
04:28And there's damage.
04:29Carlos Sainz goes off as a result of it.
04:32And there's your damage on Alonso's car.
04:33He squeezed me to the wall, man.
04:35The start, he crashed into two people.
04:36Now, squeeze me to the wall, I'm breaking.
04:40Lance Stroll has stopped.
04:42So, if there's going to be a safety car,
04:44Norris is just about to come up to the pit entry.
04:48He's now passing the pit entry.
04:50Where is Stroll?
04:51We haven't seen it.
04:52We need to know.
04:53But, oh, Norris has missed it.
04:56Has Antonelli got it?
04:58Antonelli's into the pits.
04:59Oh, Lando just missed it.
05:01Oh, and there's Lance Stroll.
05:02Well, that's the problem with the Aston Martin and into the barriers.
05:06I hope he's okay.
05:07Lando Norris is going to have to continue rounds for at least a lap here under the virtual safety car
05:14while his rivals get a chance to pit.
05:17Antonelli, just before that, was starting to close the gap a little bit.
05:20Those on the hard tyre would have stayed out, as Bernie was saying.
05:24It was a bit too early.
05:25There's the lock-up from Lance Stroll.
05:27He tried to spin the car rounds, then gets himself into a bit of a cul-de-sac.
05:33Maybe that's how he's ended up in the barriers.
05:35Lando Norris at 40% of his racing speed has had to go and do another lap behind the virtual
05:42safety car.
05:42And now he comes into the pits.
05:45So as he makes his way down the pit lane, 80 kilometers an hour, Leclerc in second, and Antonelli, who's
05:51pitted in third, making their way towards the final corner.
05:55They've got to get a move on with those tyres.
05:57And it's a delay at the front right for Lando Norris.
06:01So another problem.
06:02And a slow pit stop, seven seconds.
06:05Now, his only upside here is that the pit lane feeds out into turn three.
06:10So he misses out a few corners.
06:12He's going to end up behind Russell.
06:13He has lost the lead of this race with some very bad timing and a slow pit stop.
06:20And what was looking like a brilliant Spanish Sunday afternoon for Lando Norris has gone from great to pretty bleak
06:28in the work of two or three laps.
06:30This is the end.
06:32Negative.
06:33Ready?
06:33Why wouldn't we try, mate?
06:36So it's target, target minus 10 on the plan A.
06:39But I think Leclerc will make this to the end easily with a one stop.
06:44So just keep the management up.
06:46Do what you did on that hard tyre.
06:48Are we fixing the front wing or not?
06:50So, Oscar, we can add three holes without the time loss of fixing it.
06:54We can add three holes without the time loss of fixing it.
06:56Okay, well, yes, but tell me if you're going to fix it next time.
06:59You're going to lose a bit, Oscar.
07:01Yeah.
07:02Sadly.
07:03And did he hit the wall a bit there?
07:05I think he did, you know, Martin.
07:07Turn seven.
07:08Watch the front left tyre.
07:10Yep.
07:11Indeed, indeed.
07:12Contact.
07:40The hard tyre looks robust.
07:42Place is mine.
07:43That was an error by Liam Lawson.
07:45George Russell pounced on it.
07:47Yeah.
07:47At a right pace.
07:48Why do we care?
07:49I think I could have held Norris on.
07:51We've discussed the strategy later.
07:52So Norris currently at 37-1.
07:55Let's focus on that.
07:57He was on the black and white flag, wasn't he?
07:58He was on the black and white flag, wasn't he?
07:59He passed through two now.
08:01Did he hit the wall here, Lando?
08:02He did.
08:03I wonder why.
08:04I wonder if that cost him a bit of time.
08:06I'm sure it did.
08:08Give me a bit of data on the race situation.
08:11What are we fighting for, et cetera?
08:12So in a normal race to the end, we'd be P4.
08:16We've stopped now, 13 seconds behind Norris.
08:19We're now keeping the safety car gap to Norris.
08:24Yes.
08:24Safety car now would be great for Charles Leclerc.
08:27Push on to the end.
08:28He's got any pace left.
08:30He needs to deliver it now.
08:32Now the Ferrari is out of his way.
08:34So Leclerc not under pressure from Russell.
08:37He was 33 seconds ahead.
08:39It's 25 for a normal pit stop.
08:41So as long as they all go on nicely,
08:43and it is the soft compound tyre,
08:45he will come out comfortably in front of George Russell.
08:49Have a look at what happened to Lando Norris.
08:51Little lock-up.
08:53Easily done.
08:54Sometimes it gives you a bit more energy later on in the lap
08:57if you want to be crafty with it.
09:00Drivers in 10th and 11th having a right old scrap,
09:03and behind them Verstappen and Norris thinking,
09:06when are you going to get out of the way?
09:07Hülkenberg tries to go around the outside,
09:08gets squeezed out, goes to the runoff,
09:11Lindblad will take that place back again.
09:13Verstappen now manages to lap Hülkenberg,
09:16who keeps out of the way of Lando Norris too.
09:18And then he's got to cut Hülkenberg off,
09:21which he does.
09:22And Verstappen this time got the chicane slightly wrong,
09:26and Lando Norris is ready to pounce.
09:28Verstappen cuts that one off.
09:30That is as close as this battle has got.
09:32He went off defending against me.
09:35He's kind of chicane.
09:36He goes,
09:36how do you think about the position?
09:38Pretty obvious.
09:39Yeah, we're on it, mate.
09:40The first winner at the Madring.
09:42It's marvellous.
09:43It's magical.
09:45It's Kimi Antonelli in Madrid,
09:47winning the Spanish Grand Prix.
09:49Max Verstappen second ahead of Lando Norris.
09:53What a charge that was.
09:54Back to the podium places for the McLaren driver.
09:58Absolute work, Kimi.
09:59Absolute masterpiece.
10:02Good job, guys.
10:04Well done, mate.
10:06It took a lot of mental strength,
10:08and I think you did the job.
10:09Yeah, lucky for the safety car.
10:12Virtua safety car, sorry.
10:13Yeah, I feel I've been bad for Lando,
10:15but really strong race,
10:18strong weekend.
10:19Let's keep pushing.
10:20Thank you, everyone.
10:21Well done, Kimi.
10:22Let's keep pushing.
10:23Yeah, we're going to keep pushing all the way.
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