F1 Manager 24 [Cadillac – modded series]: S01/R13 – Hungary 2026

F1 Manager 24 [Cadillac – modded series]: S01/R13 – Hungary 2026

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat [Music] up here. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Hello again. and I am Jim Bob and welcome back to F4 Monitor 24 Creator Team Career here on the PC with Cadillac Racing. We are fast approaching the midway point now. Just uh two races to go until the mid-season break. Tonight we visit the Hungaro Ring for the Hungarian Grand Prix. [Music] So, tonight is going to be an interesting Grand Prix. Again, this is a a circuit where tires usually do not fare particularly well, and who knows how the tires are going to perform tonight. Uh, it’s usually quite a warm circuit, so keeping heat in the tires might be less of an issue, but making them go the distance could be a bit of a problem. I think we could be staring down the barrel of a four stop today. Um or at least I think some teams are absolutely going to be four stopping. I don’t know if we can make a three stop work. I certainly don’t think we’ve got enough to make a two stop work. And our car is just not good at all. So I really don’t know what to expect performance-wise. I mean it can’t be much worse in terms of results than yesterday. Uh we had a double retirement in Spa which did not do us any favors whatsoever. Uh we damaged quite a few aero parts, suffered a little bit of damage to our engines but thankfully nothing too serious uh cuz we are very very skinned and uh we are very very short on engines. So, uh, Carl engines held together with goodwill and duct tape pretty much, Dino. Yeah, pretty much. We’re, uh, we are hanging on at the moment until we can invest in a new powertrain for both cars. How you doing, Dino? How you doing, Mike? Good to see you. Hello to everyone else who’s lurking in the chat. Uh, let’s get ourselves uh, straight into uh, the situation, shall we? Again, I’m going to go 20th. I just I’d love to go higher than that, but I just don’t think we’ll have the performance around here. Welcome to the beautiful Three Springs Valley here in Hungary. Halfway through the season, it’s too early to call the championship. Can teams make good before the summer break, or will they be hoping for a reset? In the constructor’s title battle, it’s Mercedes who are currently leading, but there are still plenty of points up for grabs this season. Let’s see what the weekend has in store. [Music] Well, Mercedes are running a junior. That much I can tell you. Um, I don’t know if I can get away with running a junior. I think we’re going to have to hang on to our mediums and hards as much as we can here and just fork over the softs. So, [Music] do I put the rookies in? No. I want to try and minimize how much time we spend on track given that we are running very very worn power trains now. So we’ll do this. Will that go? We’ll try it and hope that it holds together. Might not at this circuit. It’s not a particularly kind circuit in terms of temperature or bumps. Uh it’s normally cuz it’s a short lap. It’s normally I think 20 laps around here. So, we are going to go [Music] tires won’t go that long. Let’s try and get the tires to go 25 laps. I really doubt they will. We’re going to go with softs. Uh, let’s change that. Going to have to get them to look after the fuel to keep the engine temps down. Uh, really, really, really bad engine situation for Czecho. It’s the only ERS that we have. And at least we can use a slightly more worn gearbox. It’s surprised I didn’t put 121st. How you uh not sure what you mean there, Dino? Right. It’s a high downforce circuit. And I’m going to go really high downforce to start. We’re going to go with a 10 and a 15. We’ll go with a 15 on the other car. Let’s go with a 37. It’s usually quite low on the camber and the toe. Let’s drop that down to there. And let’s drop that down to there. And I can see straight away that’s not going to work. So, we’ll have to look at a 15. Uh, [Music] I think I think just to compensate for that, I will just tweak the front wing slightly, but I’ll leave everything else as it was. Oh, you mean for the sponsor goal? Yeah, it’s when you get to 21st, it’s so little money that it’s, you know, it’s it’s hardly worth it. So, at least, you know, if we can get both cars in the top 20, that’ll be something. I just we could possibly get one in the top 18, but I wouldn’t like to bet which one. So, two in the top 20 is safer. So, let’s go with a nine on this one. Will the 15 five go? It’s a little tight. Yeah, we’ll go with the 15 on this one as well. Uh, but I might push the front wing all the way up this time. So, we’ll go 10 15. I’ll go with the 37 again. I’m going to drop that uh all the way down. to there and that all the way down to there. I don’t want to go completely zero on either. Uh so tires. Need to change those. Let’s put the softs on. Uh we’ve done our uh setups. We’ve done our car parts. We got our fuel loads. Got our driver options. Let’s hit the track to see just how slow we are and how long these tires will last. Probably not very long. [Music] Ready to check. Good too. Ready to check. [Music] Copy. Loud and clear. We do have some rookies running. Uh Beganovic running forlair and Ferrari. Uh both Red Bull rookies getting a run or two of the Red Bull rookies getting a run out today. Uh Nagel and Aguilar. We’ve got Victor Martal in for Kimmy Antonelli. No one is in for Alpine. Williams running their main drivers as well as are Har. Uh same for racing boards. Tim Tramets getting a run out instead of Hulenberg and Aldi. Cash Bashuka getting a run out instead of Cenoda. And we’re keeping ours behind closed doors. [Music] [Music] All right, we’ll speed him up. [Music] Tire temp’s taking a while to come up. Still the same. Let me uh turn the fuel to balance and we’ll just keep an eye on the engine. From tire point of view, we don’t think lift and co is necessary. Copy. Imagine the tire and try to work on your front tires. [Applause] No lift off needed. You are doing a good job. Yeah, copy. There we go. Tires are now firing up now that we stopped looking after the Oh, engine tent is climbing rapidly. These tires are falling apart. Look, how does the car feel? Car was good. Thanks, guys. Let’s have a look. Uh 90%. That’s not bad. Just got to wait for Czecho. [Music] Check in a lot of dirty air. Uh, let me tell Botas to not fight teammate. He should pull over and let everyone through or at the very least let his teammate through. [Music] No doubt a couple of others will try and follow. And again, we got Perez into clean air. Should have done that sooner. Completely forgot to do that. [Music] engine temp still a little high. There we go. We got Perez’s feedback just as well cuz the tires are almost completely gone. He’s only 73%. Ooh, lot of work needed. Keep them out another few laps just to try and get a little bit more track time. But we are very close to bringing them both in. Damn it. I’ve called him in a lap earlier than I wanted to just simply because I’m worried that that gearbox We’ll go on the second run here. All right, we’re off here. Let’s go to a 28. Let’s do that to bring that back rather than changing the front wing cuz the rear wing set as well. Uh that gives us small gaps in the bigish gap or the right size gap. So we’ll try that. And there’s no way we’ll do 25 laps. I let go for 19 laps of fuel. So, we’ll have to uh keep fuel saving to stretch the stint a little bit. And box this box confirmed. Okay. Copy. Here [Music] comes Czecho. meter on and meter on and stop on the marks. So, a little bit of news as far as George Russell goes. He has now officially signed his contract for his contract extension at Mercedes. It’s been very interestingly worded. It is a multi-year deal, but uh it appears there are get out clauses from what I understand at both on both sides for the end of next season. So uh that would give George the opportunity to to leave. I would also give Mercedes the opportunity to remove him and replace him if a certain Mr. Bstappen becomes available. Thing is though, I mean, if Max decides he wants out, that’s going to be because Red Bull aren’t performing. So if uh if George decides to leave and uh they try and sign for staff to replace George, George is going to leave if Mercedes aren’t performing. So that becomes quite an interesting situation. I don’t know what to do here. I’m kind of at odds on this one. Let’s leave that as a 37. Let’s try pushing the camber up. And let’s try pushing the toe all the way up. It’s normally low, but if it’s a 14 1/2 wing, which I think it might be, well, I say it’s a 14 and 1/2 or a 15 and 1/2, we might need to increase the camber to compensate for that. I don’t know. I’m just kind of pissing in the wind on this one. Evening, Farah. I’m very curious as to what next season’s going to be like with the new Arrow, but I’m also a little worried. There’s a there’s a chance that we could see cars swapping position multiple times on each lap. And it’s going to feel so artificial. If that’s the case, it’s not going to feel like real racing. Hamilton coming past very shortly. Reminder for brake temperature. All good. So, I’m I’m interested, but I’m also cautiously concerned as well as to just what that’s actually going to look like. How are these guys? It is what October at the moment. So keep the temperature on tires [Music] about 5 months until the start of the new season. four to five months in that window. Not entirely sure exactly what date the new season starts. It’s traditionally end of February, beginning of March. [Music] [Music] All right, got some feedback from Vouchery. Yes, 94. So, we we’ve gained a little bit. We gained 4%. Czecho is the big one. We made wholesale changes to his setup and we only found what a little bit developed. What was he on? 70 something. 72. We did not find much. So, we’ve massively overcorrected in some areas. Wonder if I went the wrong way. I must have gone the wrong way on the rear wing. [Music] And we’re heading to Bracken Reach. That’s the uh the new World of Trucks event, isn’t it? I saw a an article headline in my newsfeed about that earlier this morning. What about tires? His tires. Yeah, I think I will at some point. [Music] I’m going to try and make a concerted effort to sit down at some point this weekend and do some recording again. [Music] Tire face update when you can only. So braking stability is wrong. Everything else is spot on. So that has to be up here, which means we have to bring that back. But now I’m breaking that. So, [Music] not sure if I can get away with that. I’ll try. Oh man, those tires are so badly worn. I can’t even. There we go. Ah, so we went the wrong way here. That’s actually a one nine, but we made definite improvements everywhere else. So, we’re not too far off now. Let’s bring that up. Let’s increase the front wing to give us a little bit of movement on the rear wing. Let me try that. See if that works. And that’s it for uh first practice. So, we’ll do two soft tire runs again in the next session. We’ll save the hard tires and then we’ll do a set of mediums uh in uh FP3 for a longer single run hopefully to finish our setups off and get that track time and get an idea of how long the tires will last as well. All right. So, let’s go with the softs. How’s that gearbox looking? Not great. Got to keep using it though. really if I can just stretch a little bit more life out of uh the leftovers that we’ve got with our tree. Might be able to avoid spending more money than I have to on him. All right, setups are in. See how we do. Green lights. Send Valtry out first again. Shouldn’t have done. Have to pull him over. Let Czecho through cuz he’s going to be considerably slower with that gearbox. Brake warming reminder. Yep. [Music] And there we go. car part knowledge at 88. That is the uh the new cipod that’s being learned. I try to think what my engine temps on Vas’s car would be like without those side pods. Oh dear. Oh, it’s just a warning. There’s no fault at the moment. Okay, that’s all right. [Music] about to get our feedback from Valkyrie 97. Anything we can help you with? We’re close. Keep the same. We’re very close. What about Czecho? How many laps have we done? 15. And the tires are down to 22%. Yeah, soft tires is just going to fall apart here. I mean, again, they’re running below temperature, which is probably accelerating the wear a little bit, but that’s because I have to protect their engines. [Music] [Music] There we go. Feedback from Czecho [Music] 99. Oh, so close. So close. [Music] What about tires? My tires. Okay. Okay. Okay. Tire phase update when you can. Sorry, I’m struggling now. Understood. Just waiting for the inevitable uh gearbox failure on Ver’s car. Practice your pit lane entry. Yes. Yes. [Music] And we need speed limit on speed limit on stop in front of the garage. So, I’ve seen quite a few cars using hard tires over the practice weekend so far. That means they will only have one set and limit the Grand Prix. We’re going to have two because we’re not using our hards. We’re saving them. We’re going to have two sets of mediums, two sets of hards, and then however many softs we have left after qualifying, which probably won’t be any because we’re going to have only two sets going into quali. Well, we might have a set. That’s uh that’s usable on race day. Yeah, it’s the front wing. I’m going to have to just creep that up. Bring that back. Move that back. Hope that that’s going to fix everything. Which way? Which way? Let’s go. Let’s go that way. 50/50 choice at this point. Either I’ve got it right or I’ve uh horribly horribly messed it up. Well, it’s not that extreme. I’ve got it right or I’ve got it wrong. So, we’re either going to gain a percentage point and get to 100 or lose one and go to 98. [Music] [Applause] Once again, the Ferrari is not looking amazingly quick. It is still practice, but are they just running old parts or are they starting to fall behind in development? I think it’s more likely old parts. Oh [ __ ] that gearbox is gone. Can I get him in before it completely fails? Yes. It’s terminal, so can’t uh send it back out, but if it goes, it damages the engine a bit more as well. So, it had to call him in before it exploded. Not close to full feedback from Czecho yet. [Music] Tire face update when you can. I’m losing a bit. And they’re down to 14%. Come on. Give me that last little bit of feedback before they go completely. Thank you. And we got it right. Excellent. [Music] He’s almost certainly going to puncture on the way back to the uh garage. Pen box speed confirmed. Okay, copy. So much heavy curb use around this circuit as well. I’m amazed that they haven’t popped anywhere so far on this lap. Could we actually make it back to the pits before they do go bang? Nope, we can’t. Of course not. The second I I speculate, actually give voice to that speculation, they immediately explode. But we got a lot further around the lap than I was expecting. [Music] speed limit on please and stop on the marks. [Music] So, not the most ideal second session. We’ve almost nailed the setup for Valtry, but we have killed the gearbox. Luckily, we managed to get him in before it killed anything else. We have got Czecho sorted. [Music] Now, we need to send them out on mediums in the next session. Might [Music] not need to fuel save. now that we’re taking that gearbox out. [Music] I have to go with that one. It’s got major damage. I mean, theoretically, I could try running it, but I’m not going to. We’re going to stick with the 40 center. Medium tires for Czecho. And he only needs to run for a little bit. He’s at 97%. So, just leave him out for the 15 laps or so cuz that is his one and only engine. 5 4 3 2 1 Green light. [Music] And there we go. We have nailed Valtry setup. Excellent. So, he just needs time on track now. Temps are still a little high for both, but they’re manageable now. It’s keeping the tires at the right temperature. [ __ ] I forgot I needed to refuel him. It’s hit the 100 anyway, so that’s good. So, we’re going to need around 78 79% track knowledge out of Valkyrie to get him up to 100 as well. Time is down to 34%. We’ve only done 19 laps, 18 laps. It’s not a lot. Even the medium tires aren’t that durable. I think we are three stopping with two sets of mediums and two sets of hearts in this race potentially. Kind of shudder to think how many uh What about tires? Sh to think how many pit stops some of the teams are going to have to make that have already used their hard tires like Hulenber confirming you are boxing this lap. Yeah, copy. There we go. Both drivers done. We got the car part knowledge up nicely. Make sure your limiter is on. Okay, stop on the marks. [Music] And in is Valkyrie. There we go. Confirmation of the setup. And now we can just run out the clock. [Music] Couple more cars going out on the hearts as well. [Music] Ironically, the uh high tire wear could be quite beneficial for us. You know, if the rest of the grid suffers with that as well, especially if it’s going to push, the tires aren’t going to overheat through um uh or degrade through temperature windows, I don’t think. if they’re running in dirty air or they’re pushing too hard. I think if if I remember rightly reading the uh description. In fact, let’s um let me have a quick look. We find the tire mod performance overhaul. So, uh let’s have a look at the major updates. Uh, do do AI will be able to drive as aggressively as it wants, staying in the optimal temperature window, it’ll choose its tires based on the compounds it has available. Um, so yeah, it says now only hard race difficulty should be chose chosen regardless of track or weather factors. This difficulty allows the AI to go as fast as it wants, but doesn’t allow it to overheat tires. It doesn’t mean that the AI will always drive in attack mode. It will still adjust its pace accordingly to the different factors. observing the AI’s behavior and lap times. I assume that it chooses it follows the following logic. Uh tires based on compounds that it has for the race that have the lowest expected race time. Based on the strategy, it sets the optimal pace mode for each stint. So, even the hard AI can sometime um can sometimes go with conservative pace. And if the tire wear is lower than expected or if there is a very tight battle with the other driver within that 1 second gap, it can still go more aggressively and even overheat tires to wear them faster. So, while they won’t melt their tires by uh pushing, it will still wear them out, which is what we’ve been seeing. Right, practice is done. [Music] Both of our drivers are going in with as much confidence as is possible. Uh Valtry having those issues with Mark at the moment, which is why he’s not in very high. But we are ready to qualify. [Music] [Music] [Music] Welcome everyone to qualifying. This should be a good one. There are three periods of qualifying ahead of the drivers. Now remember, only the fastest 10 will make it through to Q3 for a shot at pole position. And here’s a driver there’s been quite a focus on recently. Karun Very Bosas. Well, Cofty, here is a driver who’s just oozing confidence right now. We can see the impact it’s having, and I’m sure that’ll carry through to qualifying. And you’re right. Well, it’s nearly time for qualifying. [Music] Okay, time to put the best bits in the car. They are running the new side pod. Yes, they are. Good. Uh, just want to check I am running the best bits available. [Music] These are now ready to start being built. We don’t have any yet, nor do we have the money to actually build them, which is a little frustrating. Although, we got sponsor money coming after this. We uh this Grand Prix, we might well have to mod some more back in because I think we’re still being affected by the fact that we didn’t do anything with the sponsors last month. Um it massively reduced our engagement level. So, uh, yeah, we may have to mod in a little bit more just to bring us back up to the 46 mil again. And then that’ll be the last time I do that. Unless it just randomly crashes on us again. That’s what happened last time. That’s what caused that bug is because the game crashed [Music] and then when we reloaded the save, it just auto skipped past our ability to choose any activities for the sponsors. Oh my god, we’re at 39% on the ERS. Ah, that’s going to have to go uh in a new one’s going to have to go into the car for Zambort. That’s not good. That’s not good. Right, we’re only going to have the two sets as soft tires. So, we’re going to wait. Green light. Let the track rubber in a bit. try and get make sure that we do get time for a clean run. Someone’s going out very early. It’s Okon. [Music] [Music] Hello. [Music] Hello. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] No one else is out yet. Aon has the track to himself. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Yeah. [Music] You’ve been Clark. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Still no one last hit the track yet. Oh, there we go. Antonelli leaving the garage and stappen. [Music] And it’s a 115.1. The gauntlet has been thrown down. [Applause] [Music] Let’s keep an eye on Antonelli. Expecting some good pace out of him. Wonder what condition his uh powertrain is in after that massive shunt. [Music] Colinto will have a uh sixth place grid penalty as well to be applied at the end of qualifying thanks to hitting Lawson who hit me at uh at Spa. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Bman will potentially be in the way of Antonyelli at some point on the lap and see how good his sector is. We’ll be able to compare directly to the staff who is just a few lengths back. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I think Bman might be far enough ahead that he won’t be an issue. It’s 281. So, AON still purple in the first sector. Oh, there we go. What a time for Max. It looks like Antonelli might be having uh a very worn powertrain in his car if he’s that far off the pace. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah, he’s struggling, isn’t he? I think is it’s uh he’s got a really really damaged gearbox in that car. [Applause] [Music] Max goes through 3/10 quicker than knock on. Antonyelli is a second and a half off the pace almost. Uh we’ve got Pastry and Hamilton. Pastry just in front. Let’s get plenty of brake temperature if you can. Lapping a fair bit quicker as well. Again, very bad first sector for Hamilton. Middle sector slightly better than Antonelli. So, Castri is in third. He’s down on O on Estan there. Hamilton only 11,000 quicker than Antonelli. So another wounded car it would seem. [Music] Oh, we are too close. Too close to the Williams. That’s sight, I think. Yeah, it is. Track is clear, track is clear, and we’ll be we’ll get a nice slipstream down the main straight. And then we’re going to get dirty air all over the place in the rest of the lap. Let’s go now. [Music] [Applause] [Music] 279. It’s not great. [Music] [Applause] [Music] 278 for Valtry. It’s on par with Portto at the moment. [Music] [Music] [Applause] This one is 69. Oh, it’s terrible. It’s 1.1 seconds slower in that middle sector than Albon. Half a second slower than Valtry. [Applause] I think that’s a good chunk of that time lost there. We’ll be down to the dirty air. So, it’s ninth place. 2 and 1/2 seconds off the pace. Here comes uh Botas [Music] who had nice clear air and he is uh 1.2 seconds quicker. Slow in. Yeah, could be. [Music] Williams looking pretty handy so far. Here’s [Music] the replay. Right, we’re down at turn five. That’s the long sweeping right-hander. Go wide. They go very easy to just drift wide there if you’re not careful. [Music] Colinto currently P1. That penalty won’t be applied until the end of qualifying. So if he does qualify 15th in this session, he will go through to the next one. [Music] [Music] We’re going to get in Snoda’s way. Keeping it on and keeping it on and stop on the marks. Might just have got out of his way. I’m not sure. So limiter should be on now. Stopping on the marks. Oh, Russell had to pull over. He was just starting his flying lap and he had to pull over to let uh Cenoda through. So Russell’s lap is stuffed and tires are down to 80%. Yeah, we’ve kind of got to, haven’t we? Comes Alonso. That middle set to look very handy. He jumps up to third place. Yeah, Russell. Look, he lost 3 seconds to Gazzley in that opening sector. 3 seconds to Norris. [Music] Oh, no way. Is that No, Norris has just crossed the line to set his time. So Norris is okay. Thought we’d just seen a repeat. Here comes George. He’s going to be absolutely steaming about being blue flagged the way he was. [Music] I do sometimes wish there was a button that we could toggle that would allow us to manually tell drivers to move over for blue flags [Music] rather than the letting the AI handle it and that there would be a risk of a penalty. Or if you could choose the AI to just, you know, randomly choose to ignore blue flags and maybe get a penalty for ignoring them. Just something so that it wasn’t always pulling over in really weird awkward spots. All right. What’s the track looking like? Much quicker. Not quick enough. just yet, but we’re very close to going out. Is currently looking like he might get through. [Music] Perez is not [Music] [Music] should be safe with that time, [Music] but I would not be at all surprised to see Hamilton and Antonyelli eliminated in this session if their cars are as messed up as I think they might George is 3 seconds a lap quicker than that. So you expect George to be up here somewhere. [Music] Evening. I have no idea how to pronounce your name, so I’m not even going to try. [Music] All [Music] [Music] [Music] right, I think now’s the time to go. [Music] Watch for Alon. Oh, may have just compromised Bortalto slightly there. Who have I got winning this weekend? I don’t know. I never like to make predictions until I’ve seen how the cars, you know, you know, do in in qualifying cuz, you know, practice times are generally kind of meaningless. I mean, you got to count the usual suspects. So, you’ve got to count uh McLaren, you got to count Max. I don’t think Ferrari will do particularly well. Uh I wouldn’t be surprised if Hamilton does a little better than he’s usually very good at this circuit. Can’t count out George. Um beyond that maybe uh maybe Racing Balls will have a decent run, get some decent points. Big lock up for a Williams. Speaking of Williams, I was just about to say maybe Williams will do well and they immediately go screeching off for traffic. It will be charge button off for last corner. And that is an aborted lap for Alex. Track should be clear. Good to go. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Potential traffic here for Valtry. That’s a good first sector for Lewis. [Music] Middle sector’s a lot better. Maybe just didn’t get a good run in the first on his first stint, but it’s looking quicker now. [Music] It’s going to be all about the middle and final sectors though. Russell goes purple in the middle. Hamilton’s got himself up to 12th. So, it’s not as terminally bad as I thought it would be for that car. Not a good first sector of Valkyrie. Paris is on a decent run. [Music] [Applause] might have been held up in the middle sector. He’s at the end of the middle sector. Sorry. So maybe slightly compromised in the final sector because of the SA. [Applause] He improves up to 17th. Doesn’t look like Valtry is going to improve at all here. [Music] Even Victor. Yeah. No improvement for Valtry at all. And we got a yellow flag. That’s a McLaren. Oh no, Czecho. Now this was at turn one. Czecho locking up just a weird smear for getting to render in for a second there. To be mindful of the effect that that had on the turn and a fair bit of ghosting in that shot. So I’m going to quickly check [Music] Yeah, it is still turned off. I thought it was [Music] on an inlap. Okay, so who’s still out there on a flying lap? Anyone? Uh Gazzley just starting a lap. He’s already safe. Let’s take a look at Colinto. Just starts his lap. He’s just crossed the line in time. [Music] [Music] Not a good first sector for Hulenberg. [Music] Yeah, Hulenberg’s out. There’s no He’s not finding anywhere near enough pace. Traffic out of the way for Colinto. He might get through here. He’s looking pretty tasty. I think he’s actually slightly up on Gazzley. Antonyelli is out as expected. [Music] Limblad is out. Hulkberg’s out. Colinto does get through. So, both racing bulls are out along with both of the Cadillacs. Antelli in his Mercedes and Hulerberg’s Audi. That is a wrap for qualifying. Let’s see who sticks it on pole. And it’s Oscar. Wow. Colinto actually got into the top 10. He’s not going to stay there, but it’s Oscar. It’s a McLaren lock lockout on the front row there. Oscar from Lando. George in third ahead of Max. Alonso fifth, sixth for Senola. So it’s an Aston Martin third row, Science in seventh, Gazzley eighth, Hajar Knight, where Stappen [Music] Colinto 10th, but going to be uh deducted six places for his double penalty. Uh so Albon Hamilton, Bman, Llair, where is the snap? Oh, he’s there. It’s fourth. Um so yeah Albon Hamilton Bmanlair Aon and Boraltto will all move up a place. Colinto will start in 16th and then it’ll be Lawson, Limblad, Antonyelli, Perez, Botas and Hulenberg. [Music] [Music] There’s a fantastic atmosphere here at the Hungaro Ring today as we prepare for 70 laps of thrilling F1 action. The heart may be in Budapest, but the racing soul is right here. Decades of F1 history saturate every turn of the Hungaru Ring, including the 1989 Grand Prix, where Nigel Manel bullied his way from a P12 start to an ultimate victory. The Hungaro Ring is one challenging succession of corners and turns. With few straights, it’s affectionately known as the go-kart circuit. Drivers will have to find a proper rhythm to make the most of the layout, and for cars, low speed downforce will be paramount. The time has come to fight it out. It’s race day, right? Let’s see the amended grid. There we go. So, both Williams will start in the top 10 now. There is Colinto. Oh, he’s down in 15th place. Has someone else taken a penalty or how has he only gone down five places? He qualified 10th. [Music] He should be down six places. That doesn’t make any sense. Never mind. So, uh yeah. Uh the softs really not going to last. How many sets do I have? Is it just the one? It’s just the one. Again, I think the mediums will probably burn at the same rate as expected. I think the hards will hopefully burn a little bit slower than expected. Uh I am going to take fuel out. I’m going to take five laps of fuel out. It’s not a huge amount per lap on this circuit. 1 and a half kilos. I suppose that’s quite a lot for a short circuit, but engine temps will be an issue. So, we are going to need to cool them down at some point. [Music] There we go. Five laps out. Um going to leave the setups like this and just play it by ear to see what happens. Uh let’s turn the tires up off the line. And we are ready. Let’s send them to the grid for the start of the Hungarian Grand Prix. The anticipation is really building here. The fans in attendance are absolutely buzzing with excitement. The composure of Fernando Alonzo really clear to see. Fifth place is a good starting point for them. Where can they go from here? So, let’s see what today has in store, shall we? [Music] And here we go with the Hungarian Grand Prix. [Music] And it slides out. And away we go. Hanseni starting on hard tires. Looking to go long in the first stint. Maybe just three wide around the corner. Botas gets hung out to dry and Perez fails to actually move anywhere. So, and Russell has jumped both McLarens. Russell up into the lead. [Music] [Music] Perez trying to get past Limblad. Botas and Hulenberg still scrapping out side by side as well. We’ve just got no grip in the corners. Do your best because we have no downforce on our car. Ah, god damn it. Still, they’ve had a little bit of a boost to their confidence as a result of uh going forward slightly and going backwards slightly. Charge button on. Charge. Battery’s actually lost out. Copy. And DRS enabled. [Music] [Music] [Music] We can break behind. [Music] Yeah, George is just gone. Look, he’s nearly 2 seconds clear of the Astri already. [Music] So, the tires should go 20 laps if we don’t push them, but I don’t know if they’ll hold the temperature. We’re going to have to push them the hards cuz they’re not going to go the distance. They will go 20 laps at that push. I’m just wondering if maybe we could throw a set of softs in there at the end instead of a set of mediums. Don’t know if they would actually be uh any quicker. So that’s a 1324. No, we’d be better off sticking to the mediums. Just some idle curiosity there. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Just cool your tires. I’m trying I was trying to see if we could maybe get away with reducing a stint. We won’t really know until we get the hards on. If the hards don’t need us to push to uh keep the temperatures up, then we can potentially just two stop this. [Music] [Music] And you can use all the boost bar. Copy. Mo push. Copy. Yeah, Russell looks like he has a real clear pace advantage at the moment considering he’s on mediums and he’s still pulling away from Pashri. Gashri on the softs is pulling away from Norris for now, but expect Norris to close up to him as the stint progresses.Lair and Gazzley fighting over 10th.lair just takes 10th away. Aon gets past Lawson and Perez locks up. Good job, Checker. Just take an extra 7% of life out your tires, why don’t you? So, here we go heading into turn one and the car just locks. By that point, it was just too late. [Music] Been seeing a few mistakes creeping into Perez. This is why I’ve been considering replacing him. [Music] Come on. Come on. [Music] 7.2 kilos. We’re going to get lapped probably twice, I think, in this race. That’s how slow we are in comparison to the leaders. Alonzo gets past Norris [Music] and the stappen now lining him up. So, it’s not going well for Lando at the moment. [Music] Antonelli with a lock up. That’s turn two, not turn one. Look at the Mercedes. Things are okay at this stage. The wheels just lock up there. What caused that, I wonder? It’s the Perez effect. [Music] And this is why we uh and we need to increase lift over massively under fueled so that we could keep the engines cool in dirty air [Music] without the burden of Massively over fueling. [Music] [Music] High speed management is very good. Yeah, copy. Ton on. Yeah, copy. Charge on. Copy. [Music] [Music] Alban gets past Bman. [Music] I would not be at all surprised to see some of the soft tires coming in very soon in this Grand Prix. [Music] [Music] And we need some lift and coat. Okay, copy. [Music] Might try and push Valkyrie past Tulenberg on the next lap. What about tires back? [Music] Let’s take a look at tire wear. Oh yeah, we can change our strategy here. So, let’s adjust and see. If I have to push like that, I could do that. Alternatively, that’s a new set. We could try that. It’s not going to tell me what the set is, though, which is really annoying. It’s counting these as the tires that we’ve currently got equipped rather than the rather than a new set of mediums, which is really frustrating. Let me edit this strategy instead. If I uh remove that stint. No, wait. Hang on. This is the one we’re on at the moment. There we go. Make sure we’ve got it selected. So, let’s remove that stint. Let’s dial that down. And dial that down. and dial that down. If we don’t have to push our tires and we can just about squeeze them to lap 20, then we can make a two stop work. It’ll be tight, but we could make it work if we don’t have to push the hards. If we do have to push the hards, we can’t get away with it. So, this is a safer bet if we don’t have to push the hards. It’s also quicker by 6 seconds. Let’s see if we can make that work. Keep my fingers crossed. [Music] No more lifting coast. Understood. All right, let’s push up mode. Push. Copy. Nope. There we go. Ah, damn it. Hulkenber has got back into range. We got our first pit stops as well. Hamilton and Vestappen. Max is already on his way back out again. Hamilton’s going for a set of hard tires. So is Max. He’s going to get out in front of Perez. Oh my god. Be ignorant. [Music] Entire face. Update when you can, please. didn’t feel that good. Okay, charge on. Oh, yeah. Copy. So, those who started on softs now that we’ve changed our strategy potentially are going to really struggle if they can’t clear us quickly to those who are on the mediums cuz they’re going to stay out longer and they’re going to box around the same time as us. So, there’s going to be it’s going to be easier for them to cut through the traffic and potentially they can keep stretching their gap so they can really close, you know, you pull out a bit more of a lead as Colinto hits the pits and so does Gabriel Bortletto. This actually might work out really well for Hamilton in some respects because he’s 10 seconds back. He’s got a lot of clean air where he can maximize the pace of his tires without being held up like for staffen is being held up. It’s not a good stop. No worries, man. Better stop for Baltto. Uh what tires is that? Medium sopinto and hard tires. Hey, look at that. We got past. Excellent job. Got past Hulenberg. [Music] No lift off needed. You are doing a good job. So, if we take a look at lap times, you can see Mstappen did well actually haven’t crossed the line yet. We’ll see what they do at the end of the lap, but Mstappen’s going to be considerably slower than Hamilton. Despite them boxing on the same lap, putting the same compound of tires on and Hamilton potentially being in a slower car. Max has got a chance. Can he get through? Yes, he can. But he has definitely lost some time this lap. Few more diving into the pits. Lawson and both available. Okay. Bman and Aron. So both harsh drivers coming in and Hulenberg’s in. So, we got past him with Botas just in time. Max did a 123.6. [Music] Hamilton did a 120.0. Here you go. 3 and 1 half seconds lost on that lap. It’s a little bit chaotic in the pit lane there. [Applause] [Music] Valkyrie has caught Antonelli. Is Antonelli’s tires giving up already? Let’s go on the attack. Mode push. Copy. [Music] And charge button on. Copy. Oh, the dirty air. Come on. Can we at least hold Max back a little bit longer? Yes. Albon into the pits. We’re not close enough to get a um a DRS off the back of Antelli. Max will have a look at us. And just a reminder on garage. Yep. Here he comes. Gets up the inside. We use our battery. Get the better exit. He’ll have DRS here again, but it’s too short a run for And once again, Max is being frustrated. 1218. Still lost 1.2 seconds to Hamilton on that lap. And we’re almost in range of Antonelli. But this is the bit where we’re going to start to really lose time again once we get through this section with dirty air. See if we can stay in that 1 second window. [Music] No. Are we close enough to maybe just squeeze back in though at the end of the lap? Maybe. Maybe. Oh, he’s in the pits. I don’t know if we’ll get DRS off him or not. No, we didn’t. And Max did. Yeah, got it. So, Antonelli’s in really early on hard tires. He did 11 laps on those tires. And there we go. Max is through. If he only did 11 laps on hards, I think we are looking at maybe a three stop strategy minimum. Let’s focus for a lot of the AI teams. Cut behind Perez. Gap behind 2.7 seconds. And now Max is unleashed. Antony gets out in 21st place behind Bortletto onto a set of soft tires. Russell is in from the lead and a pretty comfortable lead it was Norris just dropped so far back off the uh off the back of Alonso coming in as well. Medium tires again for George. It’s a decent stop. Nice and clean. Medium’s going on forlair. It’s a little slow but clean. Limblad in now from 10th. There goes Versappen. There is Valkyrie. And we just saw the uh the edge of Czecho as well. Hamilton’s right on the back of Czecho. There he is trying to find his way through. And he does get through. It’s an okay stop. Oh, actually he hasn’t got through just yet. Ah, now he’s got me. Raise his long behind. We have He’s got he’s got a little bit more grip than us and a better car and he’s a better driver. I don’t think we’re going to keep Alvin behind us for very long either. That Williams is looking very quick again this season. Bman’s actually snuck through. What a move from Ollie Bman as Norris hits the pits. And now Isaac’s in as well. There was an okay stop, but he had to wait for hatcha. Good stop for Red Bull there. Now it’s Valky’s turn to get blasted by Ferrari. Both of them about tires. starting to struggle with the traction. [Music] Now, we got a really bad line through there because of Hajar in the corner as well. I can’t go fast enough. Just do your best. Perez is under threat. Behind is Hamilton, but he’s as many mistakes as he makes, he’s really good defending, which is why I am unsure yet if I want to get rid of him. He’s very erratic, but in defense, he’s really strong. A good job on tires. Yep. [Music] Science is in. [Music] That’ll promote Yuki Cenoda. Russell is all over the back of Cenoda as Yuki’s yet to stop. [Music] Medium tires going on. Hamilton gets through on Very. That’s both Ferraris through. And here comes George. Easy as you like up the inside. And off he goes to go hunting after the leaders. Paris has been passed and Bman squeezes through as well. There’s only so much we can do when our tires are this low. We are close to pit stops. [Music] I’m going to box them a lap apart. We’ll put Perez in first. [Music] [Music] They’re queuing up to take a shot at Czecho. [Music] Got to go. Two more laps. [Music] [Music] and box this lap box. [Music] Just don’t have any any rubber left on the tire to defend with. There’s progress to be made. Alban’s got through on Bman on Botas already. Bman’s right there as well. He’s so quick at the moment. [Music] Right, Oscar boxes from the lead and so does Alonso. [Music] Decent stop for Oscar. Held slightly because of Alonzo coming through. Hard tires for Alonso. What did Oscar put on? Hard tires as well. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] So Russell’s back in the lead. Gazzley and Snowd yet to stop. Max now in fifth place. So his early stop has gained him track position, but uh he’s going to have to deal with Alonzo and Norris very, very soon. [Music] [Applause] And how long is it going to be until someone makes their second stop? I wonder. Let’s ride with Aon as we watch Bman in front trying to get past Valry. Czechos coming in at the end of this lap. [Music] Oh, there we go. Aon is in for his second. Sorry, Bman’s in for his second stop before we even make our first [Music] [Music] boxing this lap. Yeah, I’ve been boxing. Let’s have a good stop, please, lads. That’s not bad. 2.38 and track will be clear. Slightly quicker stop than Bman there. [Music] All right. How long will these tires take to fire up? [Music] Hopefully not too long. Cap to him. 1.4. Four [Music] Yuki box into the pits. We should slow down. Going to go one more lap with Valtry before he boxes. Just trying to get as much life out of these tires as possible just in case we do have to keep upping the pace on the hards a little bit here and there. Determined to try and get a two stop in this race if at all possible. Fuel now might be a little bit of an issue. DRS enabled has it. We’ll see. Yeah, he’s alongside. He’s going to get through. Yep. There we go. All right. Well, let’s We need to do more lift and coast. Please increase by 10%. Save on the uh on the inlap. Get that battery nice and full. Try and save a little bit of fuel. [Music] We are much slower than Bman who’s put on the set of hearts as well. He will be going a lot more aggressively than we are. It’s just the way the AI likes to go. And look at them all queuing up behind Valtry. Well, starting to get ready to queue up. We’ll be in this lap. It’s a big old train though behind Lawson. Colinto, Antonelli, Limblad, Hulenberg, all nose to tail. Gazzley’s in. And here comes Valtry. Last man to make a pit stop. And Lawson follows us in. So this will be a pit crew fight. Luckily, we’re ahead, so we won’t be held waiting for him to come through. And he might get held waiting for us. 2.78 is not a good stop. He does have to stay behind us. And there’s Perez. [Music] He’s 5 and 1 half seconds in front. Car behind it is Lawson. [Music] Lawson looks like he’s on a set post at turn one and he’s going to be pushing them to warm them up. So, he’s going to be all over us on this lap. Paris did a 1218. I mean, it’s not bad, but compared to Bman, it’s terrible. 2 seconds slower. [Music] [Music] And we need to increase lift and coast. Copy, mate. And charge button on, please. This should be a straightforward move up the inside. Don’t think Valtry will be able to defend. Energies are good. Okay, man. Copy. Great. Okay, let’s get on it. Still everything to play for. Car behind is Perez. So, we are very much at the back of the grid. But this is only a temporary thing because we went so long on that first stint compared to everybody else. That’s Albon in lost one second in front of you. Perez behind. He’s 0.5 behind. [Applause] [Music] And charge button on. Touch button on. Copy. [Music] Push. Almond’s going to get out before we come through. But you would expect that anyway given the pace of that, Williams. He does have DRS on you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] All right. Fault for Oscar. [Music] Can you just check the deployment? It seemed a little bit funny in that. So, his ERS unit is playing up. [Music] Tires not quite in the window, but we are fuel saving, which might be a reason why. Let’s see if Valky’s tires can get up to temp. We’re not fuel saving with him, cuz his engine temps are fine. Right, Aon’s in. I think he’ll get out in front of us as well. Might be a little tighter though. [Music] Your eyes. Yeah, he’ll get he’ll get through. So, let’s have mode push now, please. Copy. [Applause] [Music] Paris’s tires have been getting some dirty air, but they are still in the window now that he’s 2 seconds behind. That’s encouraging. [Music] [Music] bit of cloud cover. Track temperature currently 47°. That might start going down. [Music] Sun’s come back out. [Music] Right. Hulenberg’s in for his second stop. We should easily easily jump him. And there is George. So that’s how close we are to getting potentially lapped. We might get lapped and then he’ll box and he’ll lap us again. So, we might get hit with blue flags on two separate occasions here. In comes Valkyrie for a set of soft tires. [Music] [Applause] Slowly soft. Need it. Get the tires just a little squirt of temperature. Let’s get them up into the window a little bit better. [Music] Yeah, track temp is starting to drop again. [Music] Charge on. Copy. And we need charge button on. Copy. We need to reduce K1 usage. New fastest lap for estim 18.1. And just a reminder on gas. Copy. [Applause] George now just exiting the final turn onto the start straight. That’s how close we are to being lapped. But he will stop way before we do. Tire temps are good. Copy. Finally got our temps where they need to be for the tires. Keep it going. Let them climb a little bit more before we ease them off again. Science in for his second stop. [Music] The risk we’re running with this strategy is that we’re just not going to have enough pace to get in front of cars between their stops. High tires going on for Carlos. We’ve got Antelli in and Colapinto. Colinto will jump. I think we might get past uh Antonyelli here as well. Medium tires. That’s a good stop. Very clean, very smooth. Very should get through. I don’t think Czecho will. There goes Valkyrie. There’s Jacko. He’s not going to get there in time. [Music] But we’re currently 18th and 20th. So, both cars where they need to be right now in both in the top 20. [Music] Max is in. Medium tires for Max again. Not particularly long stint on those tires. I do think we’re going to see three stops minimum from the AI. I don’t think any of the AI are going to manage the two stop here. I don’t think they have enough, you know, durable tires for that. I think we’re going to see a minimum three stop and quite quite possibly quite a few four stops as well. He has DRS. All right. What’s the tire wear rate looking like now that we’ve uh started to push slightly? It’s not bad. It’s early days yet. We’ll leave the temperatures up a little higher still. But uh when I was looking at the and this is one of the reasons I stayed out so long on those mediums when I could have come in stayed out those extra two or three laps because it’s giving me that built-in tolerance to allow me to push the tires from time to time. It’s getting our pace up as well which is nice. Flirting with the 119s. Very happy with tire management. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Music] Yeah, copy. He’s just going to swoop it around the outside. He’s going to try. Can Valkyrie hold him off? Yes, he can by showing him onto onto the runoff area. [Music] to 108 on the tire attempts now. Just starting to dip below the line. That’s okay. We still have tolerance. Carlair. There’s not many battles going on on track, but here’s one. Max having a look at Gazzley. Sets a new purple lap in the process. A 118.142. That’s just 4,000, sorry, 400 quicker than Aron’s effort. Hamilton’s in. He’s gone onto a set of soft tires as hasl. So neither Ferrari’s going to trip over each other.lair gets out just ahead of Limblad and Hamilton will get out behind Olly Bman. [Music] Oh, Antonady trying to squeeze through. Not quite there. And we are in the wheel tracks now. Let’s just concentrate and we’re going to have to start focusing on fuel saving. Doing lifting co now. Copy and we need to manage again. It’s in that situation, isn’t it? We put I’ll come in extra fuel in and we get VSC’s and safety safety cars out the wazoo. We take fuel out and nothing happens. Gasley’s in again. Wow. Already. Is that his third stop? What about tires? Or is this just his second? Still good. Did he go really long on that first stint? [Music] It’s a set of hard tires. His only set potentially. Limblad comes in. There he is in the background. [Music] Gazzley will get out ahead of Borletto just and that was his second stop. Car tires for Lindlad. He will come out behind Perez who’s defending from Nico Hulenberg at the moment. Entire phase update when he can. Antonyelli has still not been able to get through. [Music] Gastri is close to Russell. That gap’s come right down. Norris is still a long way back though. and uh scrapping with Alonso. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Let’s have mode push. Yep. All right, comes Portalto. We will jump him with both drivers. Lawson’s into the pits once again. We are denied DRS just when we were in range to get it. Sh, please. Yeah, got me. [Music] And again, Bass frustrates Antonelli. [Music] Right, we got a yellow flag. [Music] Single yellow. Let’s take a look at the replay now. Look here. We head into turn six. Henber trying to get past Perez. And there. And that is a big lock up. But that’s just the risk you take the later you leave it. I’m nervous. I’ve got Franco behind me again. Please don’t kill my one remaining engine. All right, tires have dipped out of the window, so we need to push them a little bit harder again. [Music] They’re cooling off pretty quickly because with your saving. Let’s pick up the pace. In comes Aon for his third stop. And now we might actually jump him here. We will with Valkyrie. Will we get him here with Perez? Yes, we will. Hulenberg’s in after his lock up [Music] and we’re we’re not even at half distance yet. That’s the third stop for rest. He’s gone set of hards. Russell’s in for his second stop. Soft tires, so it’ll be a short stint here. comes out just behind Fernando Alonso. [Music] Let’s change this strategy now. Now that we’re officially switching [Music] [Music] Bman in. And we’re going to jump Bman as well. I wish I’d gone 18th with with both cars here because I think there’s a really good chance that both will finish above 18th here and a big fault developing. Yeah, right. It looks like they’ve developed a fault. I think that’s going to be his gearbox. He’s suddenly just lost so much time to Valkyrie. And Perez is closing in as well. [Music] There he is. [Music] Russell gets past Alono. That didn’t take very long. I didn’t think it would. Got him into turn one. [Applause] [Music] He’s already right onto the back of Norris. So, he’ll get past Norris on this uh at the end of this next lap as well. [Music] [Applause] [Music] 1225 Reneelli. Yeah, he’s definitely struggling. New fastest lap for Rock on a 178. Colinto has a lunge. [Music] doesn’t get through and he’s going to leave himself vulnerable to Aon if he’s not careful. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Somehow Norris managed to keep Russell uh yeah somehow managed to keep Russell behind him. [Music] Another chance for Russell into turn two. doesn’t get it. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Push. Okay. Use the enemies. Andelli still losing time. [Applause] [Music] 220. [Music] Okay. Copy. [Music] Even [Music] [Applause] real king, you wish this game did better so we could have got 25. Yeah, would have been nice. Go back. [Music] [Music] I am wondering if any of the mo the modders are going to take on the ambitious task of actually recreating the car models for 2026 season. That might be interesting. Antonelli boxes just as we were getting into DRS range. Surprise, surprise. [Music] And I’ve got both pass cars bearing down on me again. Still, we’re trying to hold off Franco. Still, we’re keeping behind us down to 4 kilos underweight. So, uh, [Music] we’re chipping away. Gastri is close now. There’s Oscar. He just saw us disappearing around the corner up the hill. There we are. That was us. [Music] [Music] charge on. Copy. [Music] [Music] No lift off needed. You are doing a good job. Copy. You can save less. All [Music] right, Norris is in. Copy. How long’s Oscar going to go, though? Is he going to box before he hits us or is he going to box as soon as he gets past us? Hard tires going on. That’s still 33 laps that he would have to do on those tires. So, he’s stopping again. I’m almost certain of that. [Music] Just going to bring him out very close with a lad. So just ahead of him and I do mean just aslair is fighting with Hajar at the moment. Hajar having a look. I think he snuck up the inside. [Music] He did. He got the move done. Where’s Oscar? There he is. He’s getting very close. [Music] Yep. [Music] No. Bman gets through. Colinto. What’s happened to Colinto? Is he locked up? No, he got blue flagged. Continue. Keep going. Bman’s gone through. [Music] Now we’re getting blue flagged. Take care of the tires. But we’ve kept position to Limblat. who’s managed to use the blue flags to his advantage and has jumped off on Colinto really struggled out of that down to 17th now. [Music] So deployed deployed. This is why I kept a little bit of battery for Czecho to see if I can maybe stay in DRS range of Oscar. [Music] Don’t know if I can or not. It’ll be tight. We might just make it. Oh, he’s into the pits. I knew it. God damn it. Every time. Good job on tire management. Continue like this. [Music] Every time. Without fail. Oh, it’s a bad stop. That’s a set of softs. He’s definitely stopping again. Max and Yuki are both in as well. We have survived another lap. Keeping cars behind us. Look how quickly Bearman’s taken off now that we’ve uh we’re out of his way. [Music] [Music] So, we’re no longer a lap down, but we did lose multiple seconds as a result of being blue flagged. [Music] Still need to find a couple of kilos worth of fuel. We got 31 laps left. Well, 30 when we cross the line. No, 31 when we cross the line. [Music] and Colipinto is in. Oh, and a big a big off in the background. Aon very hard on the brakes locking up badly there. Let’s have a look at that. Now, this was on the straight. [Music] Oh, and the car locks up. Just unable to control the car by that point. He’s lucky he kept it out the barrier. That’s Colipinto slapping on set of hard tires. Bit of a slow stop. Car behind is Gazzley. Gazzley.5 behind Limblad. Got through. [Music] [Music] You’re [Music] So at the end of uh lap 40 as we start lap 41 it is Russell from Pastri. Science in third. Norris and Alonso have swapped places again. Alonso in fourth, Norris in fifth. Cenoda is in sixth. So good day so far for Aston. Haja is seventh ahead of Max Stappen as Pri sets a new fastest lap of 175 dead and staff gets in front of Haja. [Music] Llair is P9. Then it’s Gazzley 10th, 11th for Alex Alban, 12th for Hamilton who’s a fair old distance back. Botas currently in 13th place going to be stopping soon. Bman in 14th, Limblad 15th, Perez 16th also due to stop any lap. Uh then it’s Borletto, Lawson, Okon, Anteneelli, Hulenberg, and Colinto. No retirements yet, no VSC’s, no safety cars. We’ve had a couple of lockups. Nothing serious. [Music] [Music] And in goes Porto. Just need to try and stretch this stint if I can. Just another couple of laps. We need to manage these tires. Okay. Uh Russell is in again. So Pastry into the lead. Hard tires going on for Russell. And um he might be able to take those to the end. Charlair in as well at the other end of the pit lane. He’s coming off a set of hard tires, I think. No, he’s on soft, isn’t he? Same as Hamilton. Now he’s putting on a set of hard tires. That’s a nice stop there for Ferrari. He will come out just behind Hamilton. He’s probably going to stop at the end of this lap. So once again, we have the Spectre of Pastri looming, but we’ll be in the pits before he catches us. I think [Music] we need to do the full management on this set. [Music] box now box. Yeah, copy. So, we need to make sure that we’re only going to get lap once, it would seem. Uh, we need to make sure we have no more than 1 and a half kilos negative fuel balance at the end of the Grand Prix. So we need to find 2 kilos in the remaining third of the Grand Prix. We can do that. Let’s do that now on the inlap and increase lift and coast. Copy. Find a little bit more. [Music] And we need to increase lift and coast by 30%. Yeah, copy. Bman closing in on Vry. Bman will be stopping again soon. I could have squeezed another lap out of these tires for uh for Czecho, but given how close uh the race leader Oscar is and then the Mercedes not far behind as well, I’d rather not get into a a doom spiral with the blue flags where we get pulled over, lose a load of speed, then immediately get hit with another blue flag for the next car and the next car. Let’s let a few of them go through now while we’re in the pits. [Applause] 2.4 seconds stop. It’s clean. It’s okay, but it’s not going to win us any points today, I don’t think. So that’s George. We are now going to the end of the Grand Prix. And there we go. We got pulled over in a nice comfortable spot for us. Heat these tires up quickly. Seconds behind us. Energies are good. Copy. Charge button on. Copy. [Music] Hamilton still hasn’t stopped. Got past him. [Music] Oh, and Bman gets squeezed a little there. Had to back out. So, uh, he does have DRS. He won’t jump us this lap. I hope he might still get us somewhere else on on the lap. He’s going to be boxing very soon. He might actually be coming in this lap as well. That would be interesting. We are currently in 21st with Czecho, but we’re going to the end of the Grand Prix now. [Music] It’s just been lapped by Haja, [Music] I think. No, but that’s Gazzley behind us going through turn one now. Yeah, copy. [Music] That’s Hajar crossing the line now. [Music] Yeah, there we go. Bman in as well. Can we uh beat him out of the pit lane? The blue flags are potentially going to be an issue for Valtry, which is why I wanted a full battery before we stopped. 2.7. It’s clean. We kept position. Be close with cars leaving pit exit. Lawson’s just gone through as well as developing a fault. We are P16. Shame. Let’s generate some heat into these tires as quick as we can. He’s 1.3 seconds. Try and stay clear. We’re already lapped behind Pashri, but uh there’s Lando. From point of view, we don’t think lift and curse is necessary. Copy. [Music] Not sure how Perez is going to fair in this race, but Valtry is on for a really, really good a good finish here. In comes Hamilton a lot longer on those soft tires in his teammate. He’s going mediums and he should be able to take those to the end. It’s only a couple of laps more than our initial forecast. And that Ferrari’s tire wear is a lot better than ours. Aon into the pits for his uh fourth stop. He will once again get past as there goes Valtry with Bareman right behind trying to make the move. Soft tires. I doubt he’ll go the distance on those. Once again, we’ve kept bearing behind. Can we keep him behind a bit more? Yes, we can. [Music] That’s Antonyelli just there. And there’s Norris. [Music] Antonyelli is blue flagged and lifts. And now he’s going to hit that cycle. So this is what is uh about to happen to us. Just endless blue flags. [Music] And this is why I tried to get the pit stops done quickly and get the cars back up to pace quickly. behind is now Alb so that we wouldn’t have to suffer that behind you cuz now he’s about to get blue flagged again for Science and then Alonso. He’s going to lose a place to Colinto as a result and then he’s going to get blue flagged for Vstappen as well. Limblads into the pits. That moves Valkyrie up. And there we go again. Big lift. Huge loss of speed. There’s Colipinto. He’s also having to lift, I think, as Cenotus coming through. I really struggled. Just couldn’t go any faster. Bman finally gets past us. Let’s see that move. Let’s see what happened there now with the H. So that’s into turn one then. He got us. Gap opens up for them. [Music] Yeah, just got us up the inside. And up into 14th they go. Valiant effort from Valtry. [Music] Bman could be going to the end. Here we go again. Another blue flag. Look. And then another blue flag. And this is what’s pending for it. There is Perez. He’s closing up really quickly as a result of all these blue flags. We need to do more lifting coast. Please increase by 10%. And we need to take out these tires. Okay. And you can use a hold the boost bar. So battery is about to get hit. Pastries into the pits. [Music] Mediums to take him to the end. You need to keep your K1 usage down. Foundry gets blue flag for Norris. And then you’ll just be taken by it. Going to get blue flag for George as well. [Music] Charge on. Copy that. [Applause] [Music] There’s George tie ups are good. Ah, big lift. Right, we got a little bit of space now. About 4 seconds now until sight concentrate. The fastest lap for Alon 172. [Applause] I’m hoping that some of these guys will uh spread out a bit further than they are right now. [Applause] [Music] Continue like this. [Music] I’m going to keep this pace. Continue. Keep going. And charge button on. Charge button on. Copy. And more energy available. [Applause] Yeah. [Music] And tires are good to push. [Applause] [Music] Oh, we’ve got a yellow flag somewhere. So, there was a crash contact debris offline. [Music] And that is Yuki Cenoda. And is that Arvid? It is. [Music] And that’s Arvid getting blue flagged and lapped. So, uh, very clumsy indeed there [Music] as we get through on Antonyelli. [Music] Race is long. Charge button on. Right. Then we can take a look now. Now this is Sergio Perez. The opportunity begging to be taken. And he took it. And we’ll need liftoff. So who’s going to get the uh fault? Anyone? Nope. No penalties given. But uh there is some damage to Limblad’s car now. Probably a little bit of front wing damage. Once I get down to 2 kilos, I will stop fuel saving. [Music] Ah, damn it. We got blue flash for P3 just as we were closing in. Actually, we might have a chance here. [Music] Go on up the inside, lad. Up the inside. Well played, Valkyrie. Just do your best. Lovely move. See if we can get a better angle of that. Nope. We’re going to get the onboard from the helmet this time. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] All right, there we go. 2 kilos. So, we can stop fuel saving now. We should comfortably be able to find the uh the last little bit of fuel we need just running normally the last 19 laps. got to him. 0.9 Gazzley closing in. Copy. So, because Paris has been hit with blue flags, he’s definitely suffered. Um, that’s why he’s so far back. It’s the entire pit straight back on Valtry. His tire wear hasn’t been quite as nice as well. We’ve had to heat his tires a bit more. [Music] Valkyries managed to avoid the worst of the blue flags. and he’s currently running in P14. We’re in P20 for Jacko, which is where he needs to be. We’re well above target without this might actually please the board this result because I’m still expecting a couple of stops. Although given the gaps, [Music] if Hamilton boxes, he’s got almost a pit stop on Bman, if not a full pit stop on Bman anyway. I don’t expect him to stop again. So, this is as high as we’re going to go, I think, unless the whole field gets closed up with a safety car. Lawson hits the pits. [Music] Perez should be able to jump him. I was hoping we could jump Baltto. Uh, sights and snow are in. So, we’re going to have to watch out for blue flags again from those guys. They’re going to be coming through with soft or mediums. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Come on, make the move. Make the move. Make the move. Ah, damn it. These attempts getting a little too high. Let’s guns down again. Antonelli’s back in the pits and we need to increase lift off. That should be his final stop. Another set of soft tires. Going to have to go 17 laps. Well, 16 cuz he’s been lapped. And he’ll probably get lapped again. I think Norris I don’t know is Norris trying to two stop this like us. He is he’s going to two stop this same as us. I think he’s the only other driver who’s going for the two stop. Look at Bman. Look. One, two, three, four, five sets of tires. He should get to the end on those mediums, but it’s not it’s not a given. No more lift and coast coming. Still, we haven’t been able to get through. Max is in and set of softs for Max. So, expect the lap times to start tumbling again as a whole flurry of uh fastest laps. [Music] And charge button on. Charge button on. Copy. [Music] [Music] Very happy with your tire use. Copy that. All right, we got an opportunity here. Use the energy. Okay, copy. You can push. Let’s get him. Ah, compromise line. That means we’re not going to have a enough. We’re going to be Well, we might might. No. Come on. Oh, come on. Still a chance up into four. It’s a risky opportunity to pass up here. [Music] Nah, it doesn’t get him. [Music] [Applause] And we need lift and coast. Copy. Trying to keep temps under control and get some more battery in the car. We’ve got some blue flags on their way. in the form of Pierre Gazzley, Isaac Hajar, Carlos Sites and Yuki Cenoda. [Music] So deployed deployed. Yeah. Oh, god damn it. Once again, we get lined up to overtake any bails and we don’t get the DRS. H [Music] and charge button on. Charge button on. All right. So, Balletto’s in. Albon and Alonso are both in again. So, that’s one of the cars that was about to lap us. I think no, it was Sen steaming up, wasn’t it? So, that’s another car now that’s going to potentially blue flag us in the next couple of laps. [Music] Here they all come. Hajar’s got in front of Gazzley and there’s been a slow pit stop. Fourth place now for Isaac Haja. [Music] Very bad stop. I mean, they ripped that tire off really quickly. Perhaps a bit too quickly. Vantry is pretty comfortable here at the moment in 14th. I don’t think we’ve got the pace to catch up with Bman. Uh but we’re good enough to uh stay ahead of Colinto. I think with that kind of gap, I don’t know about Perez. The gap at the moment is 8 seconds, but that’s going to disappear in an instant the second these blue flags come. In fact, Lawson is right there behind Alonso. [Music] So we get blue flagged and we immediately are under pressure from Lawson immediately. And then there’s Vstappen. Actually Versappen getting past Lawson. That helps a little bit. A fault for Hamilton. But the car’s definitely not happy. Surely some kind of fault. Here [Music] comes Isaac. He’s storming at the moment. Science is uh through. It’s Gazzley who’s struggling. Gazzley’s only stopped twice. He might have to stop again. His pace is falling well. Bman’s in the pits. He couldn’t take those mediums all the way. So, is this going to be for a set of softs? Botas gets promoted to 13th. That is soft tires going on. It’s an okay stop. Nothing special. Through goes Franco Colapinto. That gives us a little bit of cushion. Gazzley’s into the pits just as we’re about to start getting blue flagged. Through goes Hajar and Sykes and Snow [Music] and Alonso. Just getting hammered by everybody here, aren’t we? And there’s Vstappen. And there is Liam Lawson. [Music] Oh man, we were so slow through there. But we do just about keep Lawson behind us. [Music] And we’ve got Hamilton and Albon. No, not Hamilton. Sorry. with uh with some more back markers behind us. That’s Limblad knockon right behind. So this is about to get very very crowded and busy for Jacko here. [Music] The podium is settled. In terms of the participants, it’s going to be just those three. Question is in which order [Music] as through goes Lawson. There is Charlair looking to try and lap us. Ah, we get pushed wide. I cannot keep this pace. Continue like this. But it’s anybody’s guess who’s going to finish uh in fourth and fifth. Oh, Norris is in the pits. Norris is not in contention for the win. Unless Russell and Pastry need to stop again as well. There goes Russell with Pastri right behind him. We’ve got behind. Soft tires going on for Norris. He’s got massive amount of spare time before Hajar comes through. That was a good stop as well. Nice and speedy, [Music] but that’s going to blue flag Valkyrie. Perez not able to keep with Lawson. There’s Limblad. So Limblad has got himself in front of [Music] ominous. [Music] So Norris down 15 12 seconds behind his teammate Pastri just outside of the 1 second DRS window for George. Baltto gets past Aron in the main straight. Oh, now this makes things potentially interesting if it’s going to be a VSC or a safety car. And you can see how tight it is. It’s aon. Oh, and the cars there able to keep out of each other’s way and they’ll have to pick themselves. Absolutely clobbered by Borletto there. And just like that, I was expecting him to go lock up into the back of the Ferrari, but no. Was not expecting to see that. [Music] Will that be a penalty for Baltto? It’s some serious looking damage. Yeah, look how much wing is gone. Aan’s race is done. He’s made five stops today. Bman’s made five stops. Borletto gets a penalty. [Music] We must do lifted coast every lap or else we may not finish the race. We’re pretty good. So, we get blue flagged for Lando. We got 20 seconds now until Cenoda comes through. So, we’re safe there. Colinto is in front of Bman still. So I don’t think we’re going to lose out to BM. Car ahead is Albert. Oh B does look like he’s going to get through here. He does just get his nose ahead. He’s 9.6 seconds behind. There we go. So now there is a bit of a threat cuz Bareman on those tires will be a little bit unleashed. We’re going to use our battery cuz why not? Mode push. Copy. [Applause] [Music] Nimlad’s been blue flagged forlair again. So that’s kept him [Applause] at bay. And luckily’s lapping about the same pace as us. So we haven’t got any major issues there. That is an escalation of Pestre’s ERS issues. I think. And as far as we can tell, they’ve got a fault with the car. Does he go orange? Yes. So, that’s his battery. He’s in range of George as well. And that fault might have just killed his chance of actually beating George. [Music] Oh, why didn’t I go two in the top 18 tonight? Should have done I knew the AI would have to make a lot more stops than us. I just didn’t think that we would benefit quite so much. [Music] Science goes through and he’s going to be fighting for position. He’s just about going to get out in front of Gazzley. There’s Gazzley. Looked like Gazzley was about to spear him. He gets through. [Music] I think the tires are okay. Do need just that little bit more fuel. Let’s encourage that. Doing lifting coast now. Copy. Don’t want to have to worry about fuel saving when I’ve got bare right behind me. Charge on. Got it. [Music] So, this is all good knowledge to go in the back pocket ready for next season. And I don’t think we’ll see quite so many uh extreme five stop strategies next season cuz tire wear on the car should theoretically be better. Wait, is this Oon in for pit number six? I mean it might be to change his wing, but I mean I’m surprised he didn’t do that earlier. Maybe he doesn’t have a spare front wing. Orletta’s got to serve his penalty. [Music] Now they are changing the front wing and he probably just needed to change his tires as well anyway. So yeah, that’s a six stop rock on. Out goes forto. [Music] Copy. [Music] Six stops. [Music] And there is Oscar putting a blue flag on the pair of them. Right, let’s go back to Perez. Still lapping about the same kind of pace as Charlotte. Lawson boxes. So, we’re going to get that position back. And we got a yellow flag. Ooh, what’s happened now? It’slair. Is he hit the wall? He’s got a puncture. There’s a crash at turn 13 and he’s going to go the whole lap. Oh, well. Now this unfortunately he just drops it. He gets a puncture and he’s gone past the pit lane. It’s going to do an entire lap on three wheels. But this is going to free up cars from behind to to come at us again. Another disastrous race for Ferrari. [Music] They just never seem to be able to put it together anymore. Escalation of Lawson’s issue, but it looks like they’re carrying some kind of fault as Hamilton blue flags him. [Music] We don’t think we need any lift and coast. Copy. Copy. There’s a real chance that we can beat five laps here this lap. Okay. [Music] [Applause] [Music] What about tires? Tires starting to drop. Yeah, the track temperature dropped massively down to 42.9. That’s why even we’re though we’re pushing, we’re not really seeing much temperature in the tires. New fastest lap for Carlos sits on 116.7. That is very very quick. Here comes There’s Charlotte Clash. We are going to beat Charlotte. [Music] Oh, he’s picked up a fault as well. I’m not surprised after that whack. [Music] Got to see this again just because we overtook a Ferrari. This happened as they arrived at turn 12. They decide to give it a go. [Music] Ad mentally. It’s a very, very seriously wounded Ferrari, but we overtook a Ferrari. Into the pits he comes. Is he even going to continue? There are five laps to go. Or are they going to retire that car? I’d retire that car. I wouldn’t send it back out, but the AI does do things a bit differently. They’re going to send him back out with half a wing missing at the front and half a wing missing at the back and a serious fault on the car with his engine. Perez might possibly be able to beat him here. Oh, we’re having to lift. We’re having to lift to let Albon go through. Is that Albon? Copy. Was that science? Might have been science. The Ferrari lifts. Yeah, that was Science. Got to him. 1.4. All right, let’s concentrate. There’s Alex Albon just there. There’s a chance that we could get past with Perez here. He’s not going to have DRS. He’s got major loss of downforce. He’s got brand newish soft tires. Uh but he’s got a big problem with the engine. So, who knows? We might actually stand a chance of getting both cars back to Ferrari. And that’s another escalation of an issue. with the engine. [Music] No lift off. This could be a dramatic finish. 50. Why didn’t I take the gamble and go two in the top 18 here? [Music] We’re not going to get DRSL, despite all of his issues, is still quicker than us. [Music] [Applause] But that’s probably more down to tires than anything else. [Applause] And easy on the front tires. Speaking of tires. Let’s turn them down for a lap. Yep. suggest that you can push the braking a little bit just to try and keep the temperature in them. Copy only got two laps to go so he’s good to stay at that pace. We’re okay to push a bit harder if you can. Let’s not risk doing anything and we need to increase fuel there post by 30%. Copy. You’ve got three laps to go. [Music] [Music] So, increase pushing status. Two laps left and here comes Gazzley. [Applause] Look, he’s going to beat us. the 1190. [Music] Yeah, that uh issue has put paid to Lando’s chances of winning, sorry, to Oscar’s chances of winning. He’s got Lando right behind him now. There’s a little shot of Antonelli lacked in the background. So, it is going to be a Mercedes win today. McLaren are going to take second and third. Which order they’re going to be in is up for debate. Norris has got the advantage in terms of tires. Oscar’s got track position. [Music] Oscar has that big issue with his battery as well. Two laps to go at the end of this one. Copy. We’re going to finish 12th and 16th. Here’s Lando having a look. [Music] Just a reminder on guys. Copy. [Music] Still has an opportunity at the end of the lap. [Music] Boat push. Perez is getting blue flagged. Charge button on, please. That’ll be for Gazzley. [Music] Then Blad’s just 4 seconds behind, but it’s a lot to make up on one lap. [Music] Pastry holds on. Russell wins it. First over the line. And there we have it. Russell finishes in first place. I don’t think there was a single second of that race where they didn’t believe they’d win it. [Music] And he is really turning into the championship favorite now. Is that win number five? Win number six for George. [Music] Valkyrie is across the line in 12th place. It’s going to be P16 [Music] for Czecho. And uh we made a two stop work when everybody else had to go at least three stops. Then check at FL. [Applause] [Music] And that’s another race done for Fernando Alonzo. A fifth place finish ensures they’re taking away a fair few points from this one. And right now it’s the British driver who proudly takes his place on the podium. Four superb wins to their name now this year and it’s been a pleasure watching them drive. four. And as far as those three are concerned, one more leaving Budapest hungry for more. Huge cheer for George as well. Did you hear that? That was so loud. Well, Karun, how do you think they’ll be feeling in the team garage at the end of that? It was a strangely mixed weekend. board should be very happy with this result. A strong performance, but it was a different story for the other mechanics are related. Positives there though. Yay, we didn’t score any points. And that then marks the end of our time here in Hungary. For the next round, Formula 1 won’t be straying too far. We’ll be heading to the dunes of Xanort and the lightning speed of the Dutch Grand Prix. [Music] So, confirmation of the final result. Then George wins the Grand Prix. Oscar second, Lando in third. It’s fourth place for Yuki Cenodo. Gets ahead of his teammate. Alonso in fifth. So, a good day for Aston again. Uh, two cars in the top five. Max takes second, sorry, takes sixth down two places. Hajar finishes just behind him in seventh. Literally just behind him, just 6/10 of a second in the end. Uh, good old fight between those two. And that’s a good result for Hajar who’s needed a good result for a while. Science finishes in eighth ahead of Gazzley. Uh Hamilton gets the final point in 10th on another disappointing weekend for Ferrari. Uh 11th, Alex Albon 12th, Valtry Botas up nine places from 21st on the grid to 12th. What a great drive for Valtry. Bman in 13th, Colinto in 14th, Llair down in 15th with major issues with the car at the end thanks to that uh little spin into the barriers with just a few laps to go. Czecho finished 16th, 17th was Arvid Limblad, 18th for Lawson, 19th for Okon, 20th for Antelli nursing some big issues with his car, 21st for Hulenberg, and 22nd for Boralto. The last four drivers were lapped twice. Uh, everybody up to and including Valtry was lapped once. So, just 11 cars on the lead lap in the end. Let’s take a look at the driver standings. George stays top and stretches his lead over Max, who’s now up into second place. The gap 31 points. Llair down into third now, six points behind Vstappen. And Oscar moves up into fourth with his uh second place finish. Puts him on 134 points. Anteli down one position into fifth on 121. And Norris is now just four points behind him uh after his third place podium today. Then it’s Sces with 106, one point ahead of Lewis Hamilton who drops down a couple of places thanks to Science and Norris moving up. Alonso has 87 points in ninth. 10th is Albon with 68. Then it is Pierre Gazzley with 53. Cenoda with 48. Hajar moving above Valtry onto uh 23 points. Hajar now in 13th. Botas down to 14th. Still on those 18 points. Uh then it’s Hulenberg with 15. Lawson with four. Okon with three. Colopinto with two as is Czecho in 20th. Sorry 19th. 20th is Bortalto with a point and still no points for either Ollie Bman or Arvid Limblad. You can kind of understand it with Arvid. He’s not had a great season. Had little glimpses here and there of promise. Bman’s had some strong pace. Um I’m surprised he hasn’t scored a point yet. Still time. Mercedes topped the constructor standings with 327 points and they’ve pulled out a huge gap over Ferrari. Now, uh they picked up just one point this weekend. They’re on 274. That puts them 80 puts them 47 points behind Mercedes. And McLaren in third got a huge chunk of points themselves with their double podium. 33 points this weekend puts them on 251. and they’re just 23 points now behind Ferrari. Red Bull on 198. Williams have 174 in fifth. Then it’s Aston. Good weekend for them. 22 points earned. They are in sixth place now with 135 points. Another couple of points for Alpine. They’re on 55. And no change anywhere else. It’s still 20 points for Cadillac in eighth. Audi with 16, Racing Bulls with four, and Half Bottom with three. Now, were we able to squeeze onto the leaderboard for the pit stops? No. Our best stop was a 2.3 something. Uh, what was it? It was a 2.38. So, we’re about a tenth of a second away from getting onto the leaderboard. Uh, slowest stop was Bortoles 2.29. Uh, fastest stop of the day goes to Norris, just ahead of the two Red Bulls who had very, very good stops. Uh racing balls get a good stop as well with uh Liam Lawson in fourth. Mercedes get fifth and ninth. Ferrari make the top six withlair. Then it’s Aston uh from the second McLaren. Uh then Mercedes and Audi to round out. So the leaderboard now looks like this. 281 points for McLaren. They have looked very strong. Good weekend for Red Bull though. They’ve actually closed the gap for the first time in a little while. It’s 281 versus 222. So that is a 59 point gap. Ferrari in third on 173. And then it’s starting to close up a little bit behind them. Racing bulls take four points out of them as did Mercedes. Uh it’s 173 to 166. Just seven points between those two. Mercedes a further 27 points back in fifth place. Alpine have 121. No points for them this weekend. So they lose a little bit of ground to Mercedes. Audi have 72. Aston have 62. We have 33 points in ninth. And it’s half with 24 and Williams with 20. And both drivers finished. Yay. And uh achieved their sponsor goals. And we could have been braver. We could have gone 18th or higher with both. But we needed that money to at least start building uh one of our under floors. So, uh we’ll take that. [Music] Okay, so we have a little bit of editing that we need to get done now. We’ll do it before we close the stream down. So, we have 2.2 from engagement. Uh again, because we were not able to do any engagement at all thanks to that glitch. uh the last sponsor period. It’s left us way short this time despite putting in the an absolute ton of uh of effort there. So, we’re going to need to add in an extra 3.8 million. And then hopefully next month we should be able to clear our engagement without assistance. Uh let’s see. There weren’t any man. Oh, there was a win tunnel higher. Oh, that’s nice. So, uh, yeah, 3.8 mil to add in. Let’s do that. Now, we got our board assessment. Our target was ninth. We are currently eighth. Uh, we’ve scored points three times this season or in three races this season. Um, that isn’t really going to kick in until next year. Hopefully, we’ll be a bit more competitive and able to achieve that. The board have high confidence in this. That’s an extra 1 and 1/2 mil. That’s very, very nice. We have something purple to look at in our inbox. And we have broken parts. Right. Well, before we do anything else, let’s save over. Uh, that’s Spa there. That’s Hungary there. So, we want to save over this one. I keep a rolling save just in case we have a major gamebreaking glitch that we can roll back. There we go. And now I need to open up my browser and I need to activate the alternate display. There we go. Uh, I also need my folder. There it is. So, uh, that’s the save that we’ve just made. No, that was yesterday’s save. This is the one we’ve just made. So, let’s drag this in. Let’s go to teams. [Music] Where are teams? There. So, uh, scroll down to Cadillac. Hopefully, this is the last time we have to do this. And we need to add 2.8 million. So, that’s going to take us up to 12 million. We’ll just make it around 12 million. [Music] So, we’ve actually got a nice healthy bit of cash. There we go. We need to save that down here. There we go. Now we can export that. There we go. Now, uh, I need to take that from downloads. There it is. And paste over the top. [Music] There we go. And now we need just to reload that save [Music] and our bank balance is now sitting at exactly 12 million. So that’s the last time we we are going to do that. We should be fine now from next point on. We’ve recovered from that weird glitch. Let’s take a look at our inbox. Uh, what failed? Just an underfloor. Okay, that’s not too bad. If we have a spare, we might not have a spare. Evening, Adrian. You’re very late to the party. We almost done. Uh, let’s see. We have managed to resolve the issues between Valkyrie and Mark. So, let’s get them all uh hugging and kissing and making up again. How was the race? Race was good. We actually got a decent finish. We’ll check in with what the ball thought in a second. Let’s get our sponsor stuff done first. So, uh, Daniel Ricardo. Wow, we are really off on our engagement again. Look. Going to have to throw everything at it. I don’t want to have to do that again. We are just going to fall short, but only just. So, the next sponsor period, we should be able to clear it. I’m not going to mod any more money in to compensate for this glitch. So, do we have any mandatory activities? No, we do not. So 5.1 mil is the target in terms of what we expect to receive. Had to throw a lot of things in there I would not normally have done, but we’ll do it. Uh let’s swap out the underfloor. I do have one spare left and we’ve got the money that we need to start making the brand new ones. There we go. They’re going to lose us at a little bit of speed, but they’re going to gain us a nice bit of downforce and improve our dirty air. Let’s get uh four of those built. We go. Uh cypods. We’ve got the two spares on the way. They’ll be done by the time we get back from our mid-season break before we go to Italy for a backto-back it uh Italy feature. Uh let’s get another upgrade in. Let’s see. See if we can get a rear wing done. We are 35 days away. Let’s get a Mark 3 rear wing started. What’s that worth? Nothing anywhere apart from DRS in terms of rankings anyway. But it’s worth a little bit of extra speed, a little tiny little bit of extra acceleration. 5 and a half% on DRS. So that’ll take us up to about 50%. And some small gains here and a little gain here. So might just throw a little bit extra airflow sensitivity on that. There we go. Let’s get that going. And let’s get I think we’re doing a front wing at the moment, aren’t we? Yes, we are. Uh let’s hang on to the rest. Let’s get a side pod uh research project started. We haven’t done one yet. And we definitely need to get something done for the side pods. There we go. Just under 2% gain. I’ll take that. There we go. And then when the chassis project is done, we can start designing a Mark III chassis. And when the front wing is done, we can start a Mark III front wing as well. We won’t get them both. Well, actually, no, we’ll have time. We’re 35 days away from the next ATR period. So, uh we can go straight into double upgrades there. And then when this project finishes, we’ll just keep that slot free uh for 4 days so that we can get our next ATR period and get our Oh, what’s going to be the rear wing? Which one have I already done? Was it rear wing or under wing? Under floor or suspension? That’s not what I want. That’s what I want. Which one did we do? Was it the under floor? It was. Okay. So, we need to do a suspension, a big suspension project. We’ve done a little one, but need a big one. And we still need to do a big rear wing as well. But I don’t want to lose time waiting for the rear wing to finish. So that’ll be the final ATR period will be our rear wing. The next one will be our suspension. And that’s the four big parts that we can cover cuz we’ve done the under floor and the front wing is going through right now. Let’s uh see what the ball thought of that results. They were delighted. Oh, that’s so nice to see that they were delighted with that because I was delighted with that. I wasn’t so delighted with the fact that we didn’t get a huge amount of money for it, but it is what it is. So, 7.6 mil. All of a sudden, I’ve got some money to play about with, but I don’t at the same time because we need to invest in some bits here. So, we need to buy a new engine. And I need to buy a new ERS cuz that’s the one and only ERS that we have. And all of a sudden, I don’t have any money. There we go. We got 100K in the bank. That’s it. And we still haven’t got a second gearbox for Czecho or a new gearbox to Czecho as well. That’s his only working gearbox. Ah, it is uh not a great time. And we’re going to have to do something with Very at some point further down the line as well. Maybe in the next ATR period, I don’t know. Or the next sponsor period. Uh we have 4 days to go until Zanva. We’ve got the car fixed up. So let’s advance. There we go. It is the 31st. So, when we come back uh from Zanvort, we will have uh pit crew training to do. We’ll get a little bit of money from our tour center. Uh we’ll also get uh a new board payment for the month. I’m curious to see how much that will be. We’ve been getting around 2 million every month after expenses from the board. Uh but now we have two new drivers added in as well. So yeah, that means we can expect to get less. I mean, we’re not paying a lot of money uh in the grand scheme of things for the drivers. We pay just a couple hundred,000. I think 350,000 for the season, you know, in total is the annual wage for Petro. And uh I do wonder whether I could have maybe undersold it even more, but we’re only paying 3.5 million a year for Ricardo. So hopefully he will prove worth his weight in gold. We’ll see. Let’s dive into the inbox. We got our uh uh some of our email bits and bobs to quickly look at. Uh, so weather going to be warm, no rain or not expecting rain. Let’s check the forecast. I wouldn’t call that warm, but yeah, it will be dry. Let’s take a look at our uh monthly affiliates. How have they improved, if at all? Uh, we’ve got an extra point in accuracy for Logan Sergeant and an extra point in adaptability for uh, Mr. Crawford there. Uh, we knew about that already for Pro. That happened the second he joined us. And then no change to Ricardo’s stats. If his braking and cornering were a little bit higher, I might have considered putting him in the car for Perez next season, but we’re not going to. Let’s check our main drivers. No change to them. No gains, but no losses. Uh we do have a race preview to look at. And there are the current standings after 12 13 rounds of the championship. I think it’s 13 tonight, isn’t it? No, 11 rounds. Is that right? Is it round 11? No, it’s round 13. I’ve just got my count. It is. It is round 13 tonight. I’ll have to rename the stream. Um so yeah, after 13 rounds of the championship, we’re just past the halfway point uh in the calendar. Uh we’ve got the mid-season break due after Zanvort, uh which is a good way to go into the weekend, I suppose. Uh George is now uh starting to stretch away from Charlotte and Max has got himself up into second place. So, can he keep that momentum going or is George now too far ahead? Mercedes are also looking pretty comfortable now in the constructor’s championship. And McLaren and Ferrari are uh looking like they’re going to lock horns over the fight for second place, it would seem. I do want to quickly check as well before we go. Um Karun said it was the fourth win of the season for George. I thought he’d won at least four already. No. Yeah, that was his fourth win of the season. I thought he’d already won four. I thought that was win number five. Okay, so four wins for M for George, one for Max, three for Charl, uh two for Oscar, one for Kimmy, one for Lando. They are your race winners. The top six are the only ones to have won a race so far this season. And all the sprints have been between George and Max. I believe we’ve had three sprints, four sprints. Llair’s got one as well. Uh so we have uh just a couple of sprints to go. They are a bit further down. Let’s see where are the sprints this year. [Music] uh Singapore [Music] and Zanvort. They are the last two sprints of the season. So, penultimate sprint will be tomorrow night’s race. We’ll be back at the usual time as always around 8:00 p.m. in the UK. Uh so, hopefully you’ll join me for that. Uh if you’re not yet subscribed, then why not consider subscribing? Hit that bell for notifications of when the live streams start. Uh if you have enjoyed tonight’s race as well, a thumbs up would be much appreciated. Uh and of course, there’s a whole back catalog of uh F1 Manager content on the channel, both on the PlayStation and here on the PC. Uh so do check that out as well as all the other stuff that’s there as well. Uh until tomorrow, that’s it for me. Thanks for watching. I am Jim Bob and I’ll be back with more F1 Manager very soon. [Music] Come on. Come. [Music]

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