00:01Stroll will be next to cross the line and he makes his way out of the bottom five into the top ten.
00:07Is that going to be enough for him, I wonder? Mick Schumacher, only 13th fastest.
00:11He's got penalties to come, of course, don't forget that. Valtteri Bottas makes his way back into the pits.
00:16He's out of qualifying. Joe Guanyu goes into the top seven, crossing the line now.
00:22Kevin Magnussen stays 18th. We're on board with Sebastian Vettel, who's in the bottom five,
00:27but it's in his own hands to try and get out of it, and he does.
00:30Getting that all wrong, I'm afraid, the Alpha Tauri of Yuki Tsunoda.
00:35Lewis Hamilton was 13th, crosses the line, goes fifth fastest, still over a second off the pace.
00:41George Russell just goes ahead of him, fifth fastest now.
00:44Ricciardo down the 13th as Albon goes sixth fastest.
00:48Sebastian Vettel in the bottom five, former pole sitter here on numerous occasions,
00:53has been knocked out by two one thousandths of a second.
00:57Valtteri Bottas knocked out in Q1.
01:01Disappointment for him, Max Verstappen, half a second clear of Carlos Sainz out in front.
01:0630.5 for Alex Albon during the course of the first sector.
01:12That is the fastest first sector we've had so far in this Q2 session.
01:16Fernando Alonso goes fifth fastest, a 1.45.5 should be enough if the cutoff predictions are right.
01:23Pierre Gasly, eighth fastest, might be on the cusp a little bit there and a bit in trouble,
01:27as Joe Guanyu goes ninth fastest. Hamilton and Russell now very much at risk.
01:34Russell stays in the top ten because Lance Stroll is out of qualifying, only 11th fastest for him.
01:40Fastest middle sector has gone to Charles Leclerc, who goes quickest overall, 1.44.5,
01:47and ahead of Max Verstappen by nearly two tenths of a second.
01:50Here's Ricciardo, gets into Q3 so far. Eighth fastest for Daniel Ricciardo.
01:55What can the two Mercedes drivers do to Ricciardo's position?
02:00Fifth fastest for Hamilton, he's picked up the pace a little bit.
02:03George Russell behind him goes sixth fastest, much better for the Mercedes.
02:07Alex Albon, tenth fastest. Daniel Ricciardo is out, and he's out in Q2,
02:13as Alex Albon, for the first time this season, puts him and his Williams into Q3.
02:19Ricciardo, along with Gasly and Joe and Stroll and Schumacher, all making their exits.
02:24Leclerc fastest.
02:27Through the first sector there, a clear advantage for Verstappen, a clear advantage for Perez,
02:34and for Sainz too, with that slipstream.
02:36Alex Albon, with a 1.46.3, has the first time on the board for them all to aim at.
02:42For the time being, Alex Albon on provisional pole, because he's the only one that's set the time here in Q3.
02:48But the next ones across the line will be Sergio Perez, who will be looking a more realistic bet for pole position.
02:54If he can put the time in on this lap. 1.44.4 for Sergio Perez. Very nice indeed.
03:00Verstappen, two purple sectors. Make that three purple sectors.
03:05Let me know what do I do with these tyres.
03:08Copy, copy. So we will do the lap.
03:11So we do the lap?
03:12Yes, confirm, we do the lap.
03:14So carry on with it, Charles.
03:16Carlos Sainz splits the two Red Bulls.
03:19Sainz on a net pole at the moment, as Esteban Ocon goes fourth fastest in the Alpine.
03:24Hamilton, fifth fastest behind Alex Albon.
03:28Lando Norris goes ahead of Alex Albon, as George Russell then goes ahead of the Williams too.
03:35So as it stands, with the top ten, take out Verstappen, take out Ocon and Norris and Leclerc, because they're being sent to the back of the grid.
03:44Carlos Sainz finds himself in a net pole position.
03:48Carlos Sainz then, wanted a bit of a slipstream. Might still get a slipstream, because Charles Leclerc has now appeared, appeared in the nick of time.
03:56There's the slipstream, yes, that was literally just in time, wasn't it?
03:59That's the one thing Ferrari have got right there, but Sainz, 30.8 in the first sector.
04:04Well, his tyres would have been not up to temperature, because of that really extra slow outlap.
04:09I think he had to lift at the bottom of the hill slightly, off the throttle.
04:12Oh dear, this has not been a perfectly executed qualifying for Ferrari,
04:17but they still find themselves in a net pole position at the moment, unless others can beat it.
04:22Sergio Perez, by the way, two tenths faster than Carlos Sainz through the first sector.
04:28Eighth gear, top gear into Pouon, and barely a lift at the throttle, that's beyond belief.
04:34Fernando Alonso, a tenth up on Carlos Sainz through the first sector.
04:38Ooh, kicking up an awful lot there, and that's gonna, that's gonna cause a little bit of vision impairment for those following on behind.
04:46Lots of dust and gravel being kicked up into the sky.
04:50It's a scruffy old lap for young Carlos, this one, for one reason and another, and it's just not working out in the sector times.
04:57No, it's not. Crucially, though, Fernando Alonso still going faster than Carlos Sainz on this particular lap.
05:04Is that gonna be enough, I wonder, to get ahead of the Ferrari come the final parts of Q3.
05:10The chequered flag is out. Carlos Sainz takes to the line now and can't improve. He's still on provisional pole.
05:17But here comes Fernando Alonso, sixth fastest for Fernando Alonso, but ahead of Lewis Hamilton, only seventh fastest.
05:25Sergio Perez, behind Carlos Sainz, George Russell crosses the line eighth fastest in qualifying.
05:32Alex Albon is ninth fastest, and that is a qualifying win for Red Bull.
05:39Max Verstappen goes to the back of the grid, along with many others, so it's Carlos Sainz Jr.
05:46who will take pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix with Sergio Perez lining up alongside him on the front row.
05:53Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton on row two.
