Australian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 2 team radio
27 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Australian Grand Prix 2018, across 14 drivers. Fernando ALONSO had the most, with 3.
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
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And you're currently P3, the first is Verstappen in Red Bull, second the Ferrari, and behind you a Ferrari, P3 at the moment.
Lance STROLL: What's the real entry
Engineer: Lance, you attack it too much, that corner.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, tell me straight away the gap, because I could not see him at all. You didn't? Yeah, he went up probably because of me, but I could not see him.
Fernando ALONSO: Maybe because of Halo, the people forgot to look in the mirror.
Engineer: The
Lewis HAMILTON: power didn't feel good there.
Pierre GASLY: Black traffic and let's put this in the last sector.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yes, these drinks is pouring all over me.
Brendon HARTLEY: Entry and exit on this there is still my limitation.
Sergio PEREZ: I feel some retardation from the brakes, and then I had a moment.
Engineer: box this layer, box box, pit confirm and check out we need first gear in the pit lane, first gear in the pit lane.
Pierre GASLY: Really bad rear grip at the end of the lap.
Engineer: Fernando, do you want another lap?
Fernando ALONSO: No, I'm boxed.
Engineer: temperatures looking okay at the moment they will continue to drop slowly so you're in a good place
Engineer: Esteban, we're thinking you're going to need a warm-up lap. We're thinking you'll need a warm-up. What's your thoughts?
Esteban OCON: Yeah, probably, yeah.
Engineer: Okay, do you want to box and go on the high fuel? I think I know the limitations. Stoffel, I think it's still interesting to try one more lap at low fuel. Let's try one more lap at low fuel.
Engineer: Max, the warm button is lapped at the moment. Use it where you need it.
Engineer: And Valtteri, confirm on balance, we'll go down two turns for the soft tyre. Yeah, copy that. Copy.
Engineer: Fighting Sirotkin, he takes it. Fighting with Sirotkin. You have Hot Tires.
Engineer: We think Carlos should box in couple of laps, remember toe-goal usage.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: How many laps left?
Engineer: You have other 13 laps.
Engineer: Correction on laps, Kimi. After this will be eight laps. Eight laps remaining.
Engineer: Hold the brake pressure and remember, practice start.
Engineer: So, just come round and take the chequered flag. Other cars are still on a timed lap.
Engineer: Okay, so that is the checkered flag. You can keep pushing for now. We are boxing this lap.
Engineer: Then you can go to mode and restart, watch the lights, just to check, to double check, on the right side.
Engineer: And stopper, we're going to check the MGU-K start. So when you pull up behind, you can shut the engine off in P1. You then wait 20 seconds. And the sequence is clutch in and brake pressure followed by the overtake button.
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