Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
34 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2018, across 14 drivers. 32 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Pierre GASLY had the most, with 7.
These are transcripts of real team radio audio, produced by speech recognition and presented as an archive rather than as edited prose. Radio is clipped and noisy, so wording can be imperfect. Each message is attributed to the driver or their engineer, and the original audio is playable in the archive.
Who was on the radio
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 7 messages
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 3 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: OK, Michael, good job. Great night. Great night.
Engineer: Just for your reference, the tyres have come out of the blank, it's very hot on the rear. Yeah, it's normal, no problem, we didn't do all the procedures, no problem.
Pierre GASLY: We need to have a look at the downshift, because they are quite aggressive again, especially 3rd to 2nd, quite a lot of, pulls me back, quite a lot of negative, there is too much negative talk.
Engineer: I
Sergey SIROTKIN: went over the curb in turn 20, can you check the floor if I'm okay?
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. AeroGuys are taking a look.
Engineer: OK Sege, we're OK to continue the run, so go race, and we'll go for 3 timed laps. Copy.
Engineer: Ok, your fronts are almost on target, rears on the cool side, minus 8 still, but it's not a bad thing.
Engineer: Okay, everything looks good. Let's go for it.
Pierre GASLY: Almost impossible to keep the rear tires in the right window.
Engineer: Charlo, all OK?
Charles LECLERC: No, not all OK.
Engineer: OK, copy, then box, box, box. Coming back to the box. I'll cool down the engine and box the slip.
Charles LECLERC: I mean, nothing feels broken apart from the rear wing, but it looks quite bad.
Engineer: I
Charles LECLERC: mean, suspensions are OK. Copy, Charlo.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I missed a bit exit line, so I need to, I cross it back on, I went back off, because I think it's all correct. So I'm not in a bit lane, as you can see. Copy, copy, copy, copy. I went wide on the last corner, so.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Ok, the Mercedes is cutting the track, but you are still not allowed to cut the track.
Esteban OCON: I have a problem, I have no power.
Engineer: Copy, we'll look at it. Try a different mode Esteban, go to practice, try practice. Try practice.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, that works.
Brendon HARTLEY: OK, I think I have D-rating on the braking, so I'm just going to heat up the rest.
Engineer: That's OK, that's OK, we are still on the low side.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, but I can't get 10% of the front.
Engineer: Copy that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, mate, again the battery running out.
Engineer: Understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm I'm not being able to charge the battery.
Engineer: All right, we could go to slow laps if you want to
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah,
Engineer: okay. All right. So a bit more full load then to charge the battery And the band on at four seconds time lap
Pierre GASLY: I have no battery, what is going on? I have no power, massive problem with engine working cool down, cool down
Engineer: to
Lewis HAMILTON: check the floor we're taking some damage okay
Engineer: copy we'll have a look at that
Engineer: Okay, Verstappen 2 behind, push. Is he really pushing? Yeah, I guess so, and then Hulk is coming through, so I watch for Hulk. Oh, f*** you, okay, he wasn't pushing.
Romain GROSJEAN: What's Hulk doing?
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Pierre, we are power cycle the car. There is a sensor issue probably. If the sensor comes back, we can go out again.
Engineer: Whoa, the
Lance STROLL: tyre just fell apart.
Engineer: Yeah, I can see the extra slip on that sector 3. Whoa!
Nico HULKENBERG: This weekend the sea is getting very hot, everywhere, quite unusual.
Sergey SIROTKIN: What we did with the front wing for this run came
Engineer: up two turns Yeah,
Sergey SIROTKIN: I would go at least another two
Engineer: OK Lewis, that's P1, 4 tenths to Vettel, yet to see the Red Bulls running, but in terms of sectors to Vettel, just down in sector 1, 2 tenths, there's a lot of PU mode in there.
Lewis HAMILTON: Middle and last sector?
Engineer: So just half a tenth in the middle sector, but strong final sector, nearly 6 tenths to Vettel.
Lewis HAMILTON: Half a tenth down, middle sector. You're
Engineer: half a tenth up, but there is a difference in PU mode.
Engineer: It's probably quite difficult at these track temps, but see if you can lose a little bit more temperature in front and rear tires Max We're still plus, yeah six, both front and rear
Max VERSTAPPEN: I mean, I'm almost standing still and the temperatures are going up. Yeah, understood
Engineer: Okay, so I attempt for better this time. Copy that.
Engineer: I confirm the plan is two push laps with a single cool down, two push laps with a single cool down.
Pierre GASLY: I'll try my best but I'm not sure I can reach up the battery completely.
Sergey SIROTKIN: I don't know what's going on guys.
Engineer: Okay, just looking out for Ricardo behind.
Engineer: Suggest cool-down laps of 2 minutes 30, other cars are going slower on cool-down laps. It's ridiculous, crazy. It is, I completely agree.
Carlos SAINZ: What does my name got there?
Engineer: Hello?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, the rear tyres are way too hot. Yeah,
Engineer: copy. Nobody went quicker on a subsequent lap.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Oh, is he stupid or what? I came so fast! F***! Going fast behind, 2 seconds. No way! How is the car? Do you need to box? Hey, it's damaged! Yeah, it's damaged! I tried to open the corner. Judge on a box. He was going out of the way! We saw Pierre, we saw, we report. I came so fast! F***!
Engineer: Gasly's behind on a push, sorry. Whoa! Hey! It's my bad. Yeah, well, he crashed into me though. Raikkonen's next one, Raikkonen's next one. Okay, well, I guess I check your flag, but that was not necessary. No, understood. I mean, I didn't know. Yep. I think the floor may be damaged. Do you want to start or we come in?
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