Postpublished at 13:21 British Summer Time 12 June 2022
Red Bull are playing this one safe with Max Verstappen and the team ask the champion leader not to use DRS.
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Lorraine McKenna
Red Bull are playing this one safe with Max Verstappen and the team ask the champion leader not to use DRS.
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Yuki Tsunoda: "What is this?"
AlphaTauri: "It's reliability. No DRS from now onwards, no DRS."
Max Verstappen's radio message has a noise running over it that sounds like a theremin. All a bit Twilight Zone.
For all the modern technology available, you can't a big old roll of sticky tape. Yuki Tsunoda comes out of the pits, with no DRS, and down into 12th spot.
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Marc Priestley
Former F1 mechanic on BBC Radio 5 Live
It's a really uncomfortable track for the drivers but I wonder, having seen what has happened to Yuki Tsunoda's DRS flap, whether there is an element that the cars are being shaken to bits around here.
The gaffer tape is out at Alpha Tauri!
Sergio Perez clocks the fastest lap but unless team-mate Max Verstappen suffer a mighty slice of bad luck in the closing stages, second place on the podium it will be for the Mexican today.
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Jack: Mercedes could stop the bouncing by raising the ride height. They choose not to because they would lose performance. It's their CHOICE to make the drivers suffer. It's not the other teams fault their car is a dud.
Smurkleplunky: Mercedes has a way to reduce the porpoising, increase the ride height. If they won't then anything that happens to drivers is down to them.
Yuki Tsunoda needs to take himself back to the pits.
Marc Priestley
Former F1 mechanic on BBC Radio 5 Live
Yuki Tsunoda's entire DRS flap - the upper wing - has broken in two. Very strange.
One of the Alpha Tauri's has a dodgy DRS. Instead of the full "Alpha Tauri" message it just says "Alpha".
1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)
2. Sergio Perez (Red Bull)
3. George Russell (Mercedes)
4. Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri)
5. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)
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Rob: That's twice Red Bull have slowed Perez in the pits while Max gets away in a couple of seconds. Why not tie one of his arms behind his back too?
Carl: Perez asked to not "fight" Max, then given two awful pit stops. Perez being done over
"We are seeing degradation on [Yuki Tsunoda's] hard tyre so expect to get a one-second-a-lap advantage."
The Japanese driver can see the Mercedes driver in his rear mirror. Fresh, grippy tyres for Hamilton and he passes Yuki Tsunoda to take fifth.
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Lewis Hamilton is informed not to panic because Yuki Tsunoda has a bit of tyre degradation. The Mercedes is just six tenths behind the Alpha Tauri man.