F1 Live - Dutch GP FP2 Watchalong - Live Timing and Commentary

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here right now from Danish to Frank dark Mayu I know Paul is in here stepen is here Vicki is here um I know that Frank has I think you've given like 15 Subs uh this morning already and I I I don't know if you get if there's any more uh in fb1 so uh it is sunny right now um the but one thing that they are talking about though is that it is um pretty Gusty right now so that's the big issue with uh what's going on on track we've got about see uh two and a half minutes before we go for a green flag it's partly cloudy 21 degrees uh this is 69 degrees track temperature 3187 so it's a moderate it's not scorching High it is high humidity so apparently it did it was uh wet or wet kind of wet in fp1 is I've Been Told right now um so this is again a traditional weekend we've got fp1 fp2 fp3 tomorrow um again this is RA youtube channel uh if you guys haven't liked subscribed now is a great time to do so about 154 likes right now that helps the logorithm you haven't um oh you you are staring the pot my friend you are done yeah you know I mean we have we have um standards in this community you're not going to come in chat and just piss everyone off my God too early it's only it's 1 minute to 9:00 a.m. it's too early for this stuff for me my friend all right let's back into F1 um we're about a minute to go before green flag uh cars are out coming out I think the Williams just sent it looked like Williams we' got Alvin right now they're about to send him out so cars are lining up in pit Lane yeah finally here yeah I mean it's just um I was set up I actually like set up for fp1 and then took went to relax and I just did not wake up who's at the beginning it looks like a hostage at the beginning of the pit Lane That's Not Unusual yeah it's not unusual to see hos at the beginning of that pit Lane hello technal hello Isa see who else is here re is coming out of the garage oh he's actually early on see anyone on track just yet there we go we have a green flag for fp1 let's see if I can this out out first m is not up to date with me that's no big deal uh let's get to live chat so it'll be about a minute or so before we get our first times again they're doing their everyone's doing an out laap at this point why is L swearing um that's a good question why is he swearing already are we seeing how they drive no CT uh this is just a watch along this is intended to be um supplemental to gastle is the first one out Sergeant is second boss is third Russell is fourth to come out so we're just getting our first oh we're getting some action on track in that first lap Russell's trying to Russell just passed by us he's behind I believe would be Alvin no Sergeant so Russell's out there trying to do make a move on people in their outlet and he has passed B us but uh it looks like Russell is uh Russell so Russell has passed by us on track uh within the first two minutes of of practice here so again we are dealing with wind Gus right now is from the south southerly Direction uh right now the we're reading at 2.3 km hour that's that's a strong gust everyone and that is something that if that is not consistent and it's been reported that it doesn't look like it will be consistent through this session um that will affect how the car drives uh where they should be breaking what not that they will change characteristics of the track and this is uh an interest make things interesting again we're following along with is now on his hot lap see random is here lot of two glit is here Vicki's here I dark Mayu is Here Andrew I something he is new again uh we're given 15 Subs uh I think earlier this morning I was able to see and he just jumped so at this point everyone has gotten his uh again stroller mag of the last two to get out of the pits um there's someone who just dived into the pits so everyone has come out and done at least an insulation lap again I'm going to wait a little bit so was it was Oscar who jumped back into the pits right away okay so there's something wrong with Oscar's helmet that he's he is complaining about so they're gonna swap his so basically they're going to swap his helmet and send back out uh Russell has jumped into the pits so we're now getting our first times on the board and Max has gone out and gone P1 out of the gates right away I'm a few seconds ahead of the timing sheet but right now res was taking P1 Sergeant P2 Alvin P3 Sergeant P4 there go there's Perez perz just uh sorry for staa just did a 112131 so and Doc Mayu uh just use just use their Super Chat so when you subscribe you get a Super Chat like did Mayo just used uh so it just called out for Williams uh Williams next year we'll have Elin again in in the first seat and in the second seat will be uh Carlos s and that was determined we found out uh before the end the first week of spring break of the winter I summer break I should say the other driver news that has happened is that uh Alpine has confirmed that Jack Duan is going to take that second seat with gastley we know Alon has moved on to hos with Ali Berman as his teammate there so we've got a lot of movement going on in the dver market this year again this everything kicked off early uh what preseason when it was announced that Hammond was go Hamilton is going was going to move to Ferrari he'll be teaming with Carlos SS we know that Russell has signed up still with uh Mercedes but we don't know who is going to be in that second seed it is is likely going to be um Kimmy Antonelli who is basically a o which which we got someone in the litter they're moving um it's Russell Russell just moved into just missed his turn and went into uh the gravel uh did not Beach himself it kept moving so uh no red flag scenario for you guys today so after a few minutes right now we've got for stappen on top of the board Norris is second Hamilton is third Perez is fourth and Sergeant right now is fifth so Russell did not get his breaking correct is what they're looking at right now because he just locked up dramatically uh going into the gravel yeah um Dr Mayo is pointing out that Russell is going to be pushing hard after again those who uh don't remember or wasn't here uh Russell did a master class basically would would have been a master class uh win um on a on a one stopper the problem is is that when they came to weigh his car it was a a kilogram and a half under the uh the weight the actual weight um and that's unfortunately um broke the rules he was disqualified uh you know had had a great you know had a great run would have had won the race with no P1 on track and then was not able to keep it because he was disqualified that pushed uh Hamilton to P1 in the win uh Oscar was Peak promoted to P2 and that promoted Charles deair to P3 here is Perez doing pretty much the same thing as doing the same thing as Russ going through the gravel as well Rez right now is signed to Red Bull for the next I believe two years but uh we know that there are potentially performance issues and contracts and stuff going on with him that he needs to hit um he needs to perform better in these next races to actually stay in that seat at this point to next year if let say This Disaster happens he could be replaced but I'm G to see that's going on yeah something's wrong with the visory he did a uh a single lap he came in and they switched out his helmet that was a few minutes ago or is he still saying he's having issues with with his visor Hamilton right now flying on a flying lap yeah PR is should perform he he typically performs better in the set in the last uh portion of the Season he did that last year he had did well and then had a slump and then at the end of the season um pulled it out to keep uh P2 in the uh drivers last year Toton football club with do announce one less seat for Zo he is going to be unemployed and I think you're asking if he's going to be unemploy is looking like Joe is going to be unemployed next year I don't see I mean I I don't see him being signed by another team uh and that's that's harsh to say um but it's the same with Logan Sergeant he is not not going to be on the grid and those are the two potential people who may not again we've already got two new rookies coming in next year two people have to go out uh Sergeant is is apparently um no zo's not the worst in F1 um I would I would put Sergeant behind Joe um in a lot of scenarios um but there are people who have been worse in the past few years than both of them so um but ultimately um Sergeant is is linked to a potential seat with indie car in the United States uh Prema is basically coming to Indie Car next year and uh Sergeant is apparently reportedly um linked with that looking at who is cooking right now s uh SCS right now on flying lap where he's improving Ricardo is starting a lap where he's improved in sector one who else gasoline provs to p8 so right now our board looks like is is for staffid Hamilton Norris Alman and then sonoda our top five um and we are looking at from P1 through p13 uh within one second and then everyone is through P20 with is within two seconds so that means something here um it does mean something here because uh fp2 typically is repres of what you could see in quali and in the race itself given it's at the same time that though approximately the same time is both of them pointing out Joe is actually a good driver he his crew and car sucks yeah he has not had a great car in F1 but he's also been and so he's been at the back of the pack again the stake team has not scored any points and and uh Sergeant's the only other person who's not scored any points they're calling uh gasoline Dex this moment um one of the benefits is that brings up one of the benefits that you have uh subscribing on the channel is a set of emojis that are specific to this channel drop those into chat um again you get again you pay a few bucks each month you get uh the green chat name and the badge in front of you um I would have green chat but I'm also a mod so that changed my color right now we have about 292 watching right now we've 275 likes clearing almost 300 again that helps us with YouTube logarithm with the likes get what you guys are saying Audi seems to be looking to replace everyone at saber so it'll be hard to motivate them back in the fact no um that that is to motivate them is by bringing a new leadership um that is to to motivate them is to you know um and you know that's I mean AI has basically had to come in and clean H seriously they have they've had to clean house the two people who were critical to the to getting the Audi project get having them buy sober um they're gone and bonono is in that's the other other big thing and that's a sign that things were really bad at this the sober team yeah we've got you know the Yi team engine team doing what they need to do and the sber team is blowing it on track at this point so max just he's in the pit right now let's see who else uh SS came into the pits there a lot of other people are in the pits right now and this is to be expected with after you know 15 20 minutes and we've Gonna have a red flag uh your red flag moment has been brought to you by Nico hulkenberg who has bid himself into the tire barriers so again let's take a look back what heck happened to him Ian and he it looks like he's okay he's getting out of this so looking at the driver cam for Nico he is currently getting out of his vehicle right now so he is okay taking hands getting some help let's jump back what so back on my stream to on the hulkenberg's driver can try trying to see what happened so he's starting a new lab and that's weird what H what happened okay so when hulberg hits the he's coming to the first uh turn after so he he crosses the line for the start a new lap he comes to the first um comes to the first breaking Zone and he just loses the car completely um and that yeah ultimately that's what oh what what we do oh yeah basically we're just waiting for them to get his car off track so uh yeah that's pretty much it to the live stream hulberg is safe he did get it out of he did get out of his car uh needed a little help it was a little slow but he did get out of his car yeah okay so J Palmer is saying that that ultimately this was a rear lock on um magaz not magazine uh hulkenberg basically was basically carrying too much speed is what he thinks um and he goes to start his breaking and he just loses the back end of his car yeah did something happen to renberg yeah he is uh spun and went backwards into the into the entire barrier so alberg next year will be with the a the AI team there's one SE I believe one left with that team still not determined and hug now is walking back to the pits do we restart that I don't think we have a re restart time or do we oh there we go we got 1622 restart time so that will be in about a minute um I believe that's czecho on the line uh ready to go when when things happen when things get back um it wasn't bad bad it wasn't horribly bad I mean they've gotten the car off the track pretty quickly um he basically spun around backwards and went into the tire bario it's we've seen much worse and indie car has had much worse accidents oh yeah they will continue they'll be continuing in about a minute for those who are curious about the colors that you see on the chart um so basically the three colors you're typically you're going to see generally when a car is on track is yellow purple and green yellow means that the and we we've gone back to green flag and I believe this is Perez back on track no I am wrong that that is Max for Staffing out front no uh thank again Frank for gifting one more subscription I cannot pronounce this person's name it's all kanji and I can't pronounce it but uh you've been given a uh description uh sub for this next month from Frank uh again you guys listen to the racist you channel uh we've gone back to a green flag scenario after hulkenberg spun and went back into the wall uh was n bad but I think why typically with the TV broadcast they will cut away quickly because until they know the driver is okay and they won't show anything um on broadcast TV until they know the driver is okay so max being the first one out on track is setting is set going for a new flying lap right now did did hogenberg crash after one minute no a little more than one minute uh we went at least uh like 12 minutes before he crash so you've got 36 minutes left in this session so far again you listen to the race YouTube channel this is grash I am now awake I did miss fp1 this morning right now bringing you coverage of fp2 and name is propeller uh moving on uh rest staid is basically has just set a new sector one uh he will be setting a new sector two and a sector three who took it Norris takes it takes it from Max and his on his flying lab so we'll keep an eye on where Norris is after this but Max is going to set a 130 Point um read the numbers it's one so Norris is going to go P1 with 110. n61 so he's actually gone faster uh no noris is sector one does not improves in sector two but not faster than Max bodus has come in SE uh with uh P3 with a 11229 uh Norris did not take the fastest their sector but he overall he's just faster than Max to 110. 961 it's 0.25 different so max it a 11.9 86 so we got a less than a tenth between a quarter of a tenth between those two that's that's huge uh who crashed please uh it was uh hulkenberg lost lost control of the car going into the first breaking Zone um spun backwards into into the wall Oscar right now setting uh on a flying lap Z is jumping up to p7 right now he does a one 11934 keep an eye what is on track what's going on at the track of the moment following uh window at the moment Oscar is going to go P1 he's going to do a 110. 763 that's uh. one n so almost 210 faster than Norris quarter second faster than staffen 810 faster than Perez uh we are Alvin is the only one within one second of Oscar's time uh Alvin is did 11.63 n that's a 0876 difference we are are P we two seconds through p14 and Ricardo at p in P20 is26 behind Oscar's time e t is following along with Alonzo at the moment he is believe he's starting flying La no he's finishing his flying lap he is going to jump up Notre jumping back up to P4 again so our top of the board is going to be uh Oscar Norris Max sonoda Alonzo and then Magnuson cardo jumping to p8 Hamilton about to finish his flying lap I'm a few seconds ahead uh than the stream with f1tv uh Hamilton has a uh a fastest first sector proves in second two and three and he's only uh a tenth behind that's going to put him into P3 with uh 0111 behind and out of nowhere Russell went P1 so Mercedes cooking so I'm stream Russell's about to finish he did a so Russell does a 11 10.72 he's 06 faster than Oscar F1 T is pointing out that Daniel so again last year Daniel came back after replacing Dev uh and it was basically this is second or third race coming after he had come back uh rashed here in fb2 basically he had to go it was either go into the wall or hit Oscar basically what what had up happening he went into the wall and ultimately uh broke his hand he was out for I believe three races which allowed um Liam Lawson to come in and replace him for a few for for three races and that's the the one of the interesting questions still um outstanding is what is gonna there is one seat open with Red Bull at uh the racing Bulls the VC carb team right now Daniel is in that seat but they are they have a contract with Lawson um and so the issue is basically they either need to um sign lawon to another team or if they're going to keep Ricardo they have to sign lawon to another team and that's contractable with them clerk just jump to P9 on the grid and right now we are about got 29 minutes left to go in the session right now we're halfway through it again this is the race to Future Channel you are here with grash I'm giving you uh live coverage of the Dutch uh GP free practice 2 session again this is a watch along everyone so you know we are not here to be your Tech Support to watch f1tv um we you know you're expected to watch along whether it's on f1tv Pro uh sky sports ESPN plus wherever you may be watching um so if you're asking in chat how do I watch F1 you're going to get tossed from chat for that reason R thinks that Mercedes will not have damage on the car I mean I hope not uh I mean yeah I mean Russell did go through the gravel and he's now P1 so it doesn't look like he does have um right now in action on track we've got Max coming back out on track so Noto Alonzo kmeg lurk Albin are on on track cardo gastley Sergeant um no just cardo and gastley sergeants in the pits scollo Bas Aon are on track as well we're seeing now people coming out onto soft tires primarily well gastle is going to get his lap time deleted again here in practice lap times are not not deleted like as they normally would be in um not as they would normally be in say quali so Hipp poens is asking y box the sites I don't know about up uh new parts as of yet uh we'll have a better understanding of who's taking what parts tomorrow bonic asking when tomorrow a factor when is going to be a factor today I mean it was um it's still gusting at 18.7 kilometers per hour at the moment I mean uh yeah KS per hours um it was gusting stronger at before 2.2 sorry 22.2 I should say McLaren 44 saying if Oscar leaves to a better team McLaren will have to make a perer no I I don't know what you're doing here my friend um Oscar left Alpine in a traumatic way to go to McLaren yeah the the if you extend into indie car um the drama that is Mclaren has been massive over the past two years actually two two and a half almost two and a half years it starts with um poo and Indie Car U and then extends with Oscar with his you all know that Oscar with his with his tweet uh saying he's not going to drive for Al that actually started that's a duplication of what Malo did um in Indie Car about a month before that so but the drama with McLaren um particularly over in indie car where it's been almost a pych a uh musical chair with with with some of the seats is science is still here uh science is in the pits right now the only two three people on track is Norris for stappen and gastley and Norris and verstappen are on medium tires at the moment uh Norris is coming out on the track on medium tires right now uh now Norris and staing are so we are at 23 minutes left in the session so it looks like uh teams are pull cars in they're now setting up for um what whatever their next program is going to be that is the reason uh why they're all the moment is going up for Staffing vers Norris uh not really they're they're like in different sectors of the track altogether they're nowhere near each other as a moment right now R says looks like fre not going to be stronger in in next uh can you explain why why you think that might be the case my friend so one of the comments here to Hamilton pulls another win and Max scores very low points there's still hope for the championship I guess we're talking about the Constructor Championship here no one's really improving well I mean um only Norris and Max have been on track uh so we've got sergeant and Russell hood are on outlasts right now so we will see in a few minutes um maybe one of them and so Max is coming to end of his current lap he's gone 10 on medium tires and O Norris has gone nine on uh reporting nine Med he just came out recently on those tires right so Oscar now starting a flying lab the only person ahead of Oscar right now is Max but I don't Oscar did not improve his time in sector one and he's not improving his time in sector two Norris and Sergeant the next one start laps uh Norris has not is not improving sector sector one Sergeant did not improve sector one as well so we may be looking at cars on not Wall-E Pace but maybe race pace Hon's coming out on track but we don't know it's going to come out onto a medium Tire though says there still chance for the driver's Champion as well you know Red Bull haven't improved enough definite second if not some sometimes third fastest car I don't it it will be interesting if if Max does not win the driver's Championship um this year it would be a massive collapse on his part msj 10 is asking what happened to SS we're not really sure he's not just has not been uh fast he's been in he's only done seven laps he's in the pits right now uh is a gearbox issue that would explain why thank you thank you for that chat Andrew uh not one of our newer Chatters uh in green who else s Logans I Bata a ruby red lemonade commercial uh have not seen that that will probably I'm going to have to look that up uh after the session and put that into the discard uh we do have a Discord Channel and we do uh we are active in it we've been we're active pretty much through the whole uh summer break as well C is asking what do the color blue means that means the car is coming out of so in sector one at the beginning of those means of the car is coming out of the pits in sector three so looking at like Alonzo right now who's in the pits that blue dot means that he entered the pits again hulberg is the one lone person with a red that means that he has stuck he would he had stopped on track again he stopped uh again that first that dot that you're seeing is that first uh he pin curve after in the first breaking Zone he's been the only red flag he's the the one red that incident caused a red flag in again I want to thank everyone who's here for the RA youtube channel this is grash with you live commentary and following the action on track now f1tv is showing lerk as he starts a new flying lap look right now is ninth on the grid and it's G to be a few seconds before he starts so I again like 10 seconds ahead with f1tv looking at the grid right now no one is improving on their times as of yet so we could be looking at cars uh weighted down with fuel you could be looking at cars um you know set up for the you know race simulation as opposed to Quality simulation M clerk is behind Junior Ferrari meaning that magazine is ahead of uh so what what he's referring to is that magazine is a us which is a customer team to Ferrari right now looking at board no one is improving on any of their times so they've they've they've hit their Peak we had an unsafe release between one of the Lance and which which Williams was that and it would beat on Williams in this case for the unsafe release so we'll see if there's a stewards say anything they probably will it'll probably be um they'll probably bring them in and Ricardo and Joe uh unsafe release so we been Rec so it wasn't a will it was a a different that might be a different incident so there's a unsafe releas between Ricardo and Jo noted all right drer side keeps sending these guys guys over it's very problematic in the overw world championship what I'm not sure what you're talking about Stephen so again right now we've got two everyone is out on track at the moment uh no one is improving on their times uh but ultimately the only two who are not on track is SCS who has a gearbox tissue and then ultimately hulkenberg who spun in uh hit the back of his car against the tire barrier in the first braking Zone Maria Brazil says Drive side just take just takes everything seem more dramatic away from reality um necessar I mean there's a element that they are being more dramatic but it's it's a dramatic program that's the purpose of it is to to generate interest in the in the sport and in the personalities of these drivers so they are going to they are going to push things a little bit but that's the purpose of that program um it's supposed to be entertaining and to bring in new fans essentially yeah Ryan is going to be and then we've got Ricardo and stroll oh no zo is the one in front I'm reading um the stake team is is an Aston Martin so the issue between uh Joe and Ricardo the young safe release um so I'm going to take that back um that will be handled after the session so Gil saying Russell like ahead again sabotage and lose can you got can you be more specific on what you mean by that sabotage that's a very um interesting comment there yeah again this is grash again we are about 11 minutes 12 minutes Under 12 minutes left in the session this is grash and not Ryan Ryan will be back for he usually does he'll be back for qual and for the race tomorrow you know tomorrow for qual and race on Sunday I'm here for practice when I'm awake uh B you need to think of um it's more of like a a pyramid basically you're climbing up um so F1 is the top of the pyramid and then the the direct feeder system under F1 is F2 um F3 is the next D feeder system that um that so basically as you go the next feeder system to F2 is F3 um also at that level is I believe is the um formula formula 1 Academy that's the Fe the female driver and that's a equivalent to an F3 series um F4 is then another feeder series into the F F1 Academy and F3 um and those are F4 is regional so you you'll you'll see um like one in the you know Britain one in Europe one in Asia um we technically have I don't know if we don't have one in kind of have one in the United States I'm not sure which one again this is um so we're much further down in terms of where the talent is and these are all um these are all different um BL they're all leagues basically in racing leagues all under the FIA so if we start talking about NASCAR we're talking about Indie Car Indie NEX these are not um no F1 Academy is not below F4 that that is no F F1 Academy is equivalent to an F3 series again people are asking what happened to the science again in chat uh ultimately his gearbox is given out and they're placing it what happened to hogenberg he crashed on track in the first 15 minutes of the session we were about 12 13 minutes of the session when he crashed that Ali does not get injured uh by uh oh you're talking about in F2 so yeah Ali is basically still driving in F2 um even though he has an F1 contract so uh Oli Oli bman is basically one of the new two rookies that be on the grid next year we know that Jack Duan is going to be the other rookie uh joining the grid next year we still have seats um out uh we still have seats that have not been resolved um Red Bull by virtue of being Red Bull uh chos SE does not fully resolved as of yet so the question is are they keeping with czecho um again the other seat is with the r the vCard vCard um you know are we keeping czecho are we keeping Daniel are we promoting Lawson and Lawson would be the if if Red Bull were to promote Lawson um he would be the third rookie next year so we could in theory let's say in theory Mercedes goes with uh Kimmy anelli which has been discussed and Red Bull promotes um their their driver their Reserve driver as well we could see four rookies on the Brit next year that would be that would be huge Russell right now so again we've got about six and a under seven minutes left to go in this session uh we have Russell at top of the board with 11072 Oscars 061 behind Hamilton is 0.11 behind Hamilton is think the last one to have moved up on the board and then Norris is 259 and versen is 084 behind we got about 572 likes so far we're about under 30 to get to 600 if you have not liked or subscribed right now now is a great time to do so um if you subscribe and you hit the Bell you'll get notifications when we go live and we've got pass on track and it is a Williams passing one of the vcards Sergio Perez just locked up uh no it's not verz it was one of the one of the that's dangerous so Charles just did a pass on the inside around um czecho and I'm wondering if czecho was out of place on that curve so it looks like Charles had to to respond to where jeo was so that's interesting get I'm right now looking at the board right now no one's improving on their times at the moment um no one's trying to improve on their times so again we're not looking at uh right now them testing you know a qual quality scenario we're looking at them testing out other programs at the moment bring my microphone closer to me so you guys can hear me better we've got under four minutes to go in this session right now again to the RAC Channel and this is grash here with live action of the ending of free practice 2 for the Dutch Grand Prix we've got pretty much everyone on track except for Russell and obviously SS with a gear buuck issue and hung who crashed earlier in the session that's a why magazine went a little high high on that bank and he's a second and an eight behind after one SE sector already so we are again he's probably loaded down with fuel is my best get he's on soft tires too so the car is is loaded it's probably loaded with fuel that's the only thing I can think of looking at what you guys are saying in chat right now uh why is sheo p12 um he's probably not doing anything that required him to be uh push the car for we got some side by-side action magazine has passed by I believe one of the I believe that's one of the Williams and that would be Allan passing kmac yeah it's interesting that you guys are coming in here like charging at you know I'm going to put out Val and saying because czecho should be without a seat um czecho still has a seat obviously he is still driving for Red Red Bull um is it as good as he was last year no but he is still better than the alternative which is basically Yuki which Red Bull has no interest in promoting um Ricardo who has not shown that he's got that you know he's back to where he was previously and then finally um Liam lawet who's a rookie and you can go on all you want about marketing and this and that ultimately czecho is the best option that Red Bull has in that second seat and we are now waving The Checkered Flag for the session right now oh like 30 seconds ahead wow that's crazy SOS points out that Perez doesn't even score points rookie or gie would be better no um no Yuki Yuki Yuki they have no interest in a promoting so let's be clear they have no interest to promote Yuki to the first seat and there's no way you can justify even saying that oh we got a replay here of one of the Clarens and one of the alpines going side by side through one of the turns saying science is a Red Bull option for 2026 but that's two years out um you know the the the the story was science is he signed to Williams next year a multi multi deal so ultimately um at the end of this we have again the top of the board was Russell Oscar Hamilton Norris was stappen Alonzo snowa Magis clerk Alvin back half of the grid was stroll Perez Ricardo gastley Sergeant so Aon Bas SS with a gearbox problem and hulkenberg who who crashed out in the first set first uh after 12 minutes essentially Stephen seal is pointing out don't forget your rain gear tomorrow it is potential for rain they've been talking about that why why can't you justify Yuki being considered promotion because if they because R because I don't know why he's not being I don't know why he's not being considered it there's just he's not being considered part of problem with Yuki is that he goes um he goes from being a consistent driver to being highly and I think he's done that too many times he's he burnt that bridge too too many times um for Red Bull considered him so uh again this has been uh our coverage for the free practice du for the dut gr pre uh we are done with this session right now uh we'll be back tomorrow um with fp3 if you like and like if you like And subscribe if you subscribe and hit the Bell you'll get notifications hopefully that your phone or your computer will be on to get some said notifications I will probably be joining you Maro uh F1 robo I'll be probably be joining you at some point to rewatch fp1 as I missed it this morning we will be again back for fp3 tomorrow and then uh Ryan will be back for quali and then for the race on Sunday uh for everyone here at the RAC channel uh I want thank you guys to have a good afternoon and good day or good morning as it is I did get a red flag today Paula I am the harer of red flags uh having said that uh again and I also got a gearbox as well so I got a two for today uh I want to thank everyone here we will see you tomorrow and take care [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Applause]