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00:00Lance Stroll with his cart will be ready.
00:03Sebastian Vettel, I doubt it. It's possible, but I doubt it.
00:07They've given it the best go they possibly can to get that Aston Martin fixed in time.
00:12But sadly, they're going to run out of time.
00:15And there, once again, the Williams of Nicolas Latifi.
00:20And the red flag comes out.
00:22And as we saw in Jeddah, Latifi has hit the barriers.
00:27And this time it's spun him round and round and round.
00:32So Latifi's appeared from... he's been off the track, I think, at Turn 3.
00:37Well Lance Stroll overtakes him and then Latifi tries to get past again.
00:41Yeah, so I think Stroll is beginning to move right to let the Alpha through.
00:48F***ing Latifi, man. What the f*** is he just doing? You just f***ing hit me, man.
00:53Ah, that's... Gearbox and the whole lot and... Ah, what an expensive shunt.
00:59The Williams has just let him through.
01:01Yeah.
01:02So I think he was perhaps then reacting to the Alpha that's coming along.
01:06Yeah.
01:07But obviously Latifi gets back on it.
01:09Boom.
01:10Just a misunderstanding. A very expensive misunderstanding for both teams.
01:16I thought I understand what he was doing.
01:21Are you okay?
01:23I wasn't looking in his mirrors.
01:24Are you okay?
01:25F***ing f***ing cars destroyed.
01:27Right, what a great effort.
01:30Well done in the Aston Martin garage.
01:33Sebastian Vettel is coming out and he's got the potential here to get a lap in.
01:37But he's right at the back of that queue.
01:40Down the straights with Daniel Ricciardo.
01:43We'll get an indication of what the track conditions are like.
01:45Hasn't managed to improve his time.
01:47Stays in 11th place.
01:48So maybe the McLaren needed another laps warm-up to bring the tyres into their working range.
01:53Gasly was 13th and he's now moved up to 10th.
01:56Next across the line, Yuki Tsunoda and Sebastian Vettel.
02:00Sebastian Vettel, has he done it? Do you know what?
02:02It's a decent time of a 1.21-1.
02:05But that's only 18th for him, sadly.
02:08And that's his only lap in qualifying.
02:11Kevin Magnussen has crossed the line.
02:13Couldn't improve his time.
02:14Alex Albon, 16th overall.
02:16He will get a three-place grid penalty for the collision with Lance Stroll at the previous race.
02:23The drama for the Williams team continues.
02:26Alex Albon stopping by the side of the track.
02:29Your bottom five, Albon, Magnussen, Vettel, Latifi and Stroll.
02:36Very, very close to the wall.
02:38Esteban Ocon giving it everything out of the final corner and goes eighth fastest.
02:43Not by much, but he's into the top ten.
02:45So, here comes Pierre Gasly next.
02:48What can he do about it?
02:49Carlos Sainz has gone best overall in the middle sector as Gasly crosses the line.
02:54And Gasly will stay in the bottom five.
02:57Daniel Ricciardo currently on the cusp.
03:00Hamilton, the driver at risk.
03:01Yuki Tsunoda doing well enough to put some pressure on here as Ricciardo now crosses the line.
03:06He'd like to go a bit higher and does.
03:08Goes eighth fastest.
03:09Pushes now Lewis Hamilton down into tenth.
03:12And gets a round of applause for his troubles as well.
03:15They would so love, as would everyone, to see Daniel Ricciardo here in Q3 today.
03:21Tsunoda doesn't make it through into Q3.
03:23Neither does Valtteri Bottas, whose long running streak comes to an end.
03:28Lewis Hamilton goes up into eighth place.
03:31Bottas, ever since his first race at Mercedes, has made it to Q3.
03:35Today, that run sadly comes to an end.
03:39We have lost from Q2 Pierre Gasly and Valtteri Bottas.
03:45Yuki Tsunoda and Joe Guanyu and Mick Schumacher as well.
03:50Fernando's really been hustling.
03:52The old Fernando we know so well.
03:54He seems really happy out there as the Ferrari.
03:57Oh, in the wall then.
03:58And that is, sadly, the Alpine of Fernando Alonso.
04:03Who was hustling and he was motoring.
04:06And it has come to a sudden end against the wall.
04:12Yeah, so he's grabbed a little bit of grass on the way in.
04:16Gone in too deep on the brakes, had to steer into the slide.
04:21I lost the hydraulics and I could not change gear.
04:26That's why he got in deep into the corner then.
04:30He needs some exceptional corners at the end of this lap
04:33if he's going to put that red bull on the front row, let alone pole.
04:37Behind him on the road, Charles Leclerc is maybe stretching his advantage
04:41for Ferrari, blistering first sector for Leclerc.
04:44Verstappen's given it absolutely everything here.
04:48Down the straight he goes.
04:49And on to provisional pole for Max Verstappen.
04:53Only by eight one-hundredths of a second.
04:56But it's advantage Verstappen at the moment.
04:58And Sainz then starts his final effort as well.
05:01He gets over the line in time.
05:03And Leclerc though on another great lap as you say.
05:06Sainz had gone off the track at turn six.
05:08That's why he just backed out a little bit.
05:10But he got to the flag just in time to start one more flying lap.
05:14Meanwhile his teammate Charles Leclerc would like to go back to the top of the pile.
05:19Leclerc crosses the line now and goes on to pole.
05:24And he's stretched that advantage over Red Bull to nearly three-tenths of a second.
05:29Is this now then a second pole of the season for Charles Leclerc?
05:34He's back on top.
05:35And Sainz has had a poor first sector.
05:37He will only start ninth in the other Ferrari.
05:40So unlucky to lose that lap time with the red flags.
05:44But more action to come yet.
05:46Lando Norris on the second row.
05:48Fourth fastest for McLaren.
05:50Daniel Ricciardo down in sixth fastest.
05:52But certainly a much better qualifying for him and his McLaren teammate.
05:56Where can Lewis Hamilton put the Mercedes?
05:59He's had another go.
06:00And he goes fifth fastest ahead then of George Russell.
06:04Charles Leclerc is on pole.
06:06He won.
06:07Let's go.
06:09Oh, nice bump.
06:13Nice bump.
06:14Ferrari's first pole here in Melbourne since Kimi Raikkonen in 2007.
06:20He is the only man other than Lewis Hamilton in this hybrid era in Formula One of V6 engines
06:27to take an Australian Grand Prix pole.
06:30A third of a second is the pole position advantage of Leclerc.
06:34And poor old Carlos Sainz only starts ninth.
06:37So Ocon up into eighth.
06:39Alonso starts tenth when they fix his motor.
06:42He's a pilot.
06:43With the Moodle.
06:44At the top of the third is the carrier, here.
06:45He's a pilot.
06:46He's a pilot.
06:47He has a pilot.
06:48And the other one is the pilot.
06:49He's a pilot.
06:50He's a pilot.
06:51He's a pilot.
06:52He's a pilot.
06:53So he's a pilot.
06:54A pilot.

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