Austrian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio
32 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Austrian Grand Prix 2018, across 15 drivers. Valtteri BOTTAS had the most, with 6.
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
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 2 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Use DRS. Use DRS.
Engineer: looking at surface temps not quite coming into the window at the moment.
Engineer: I think at the moment the tyre's not quite in the window, so consecutive laps could be a good plan for the next two.
Sebastian VETTEL: Well, front left is not responding at all, then.
Engineer: It's responding, it's just coming up slowly.
Engineer: Brakes are coming up, brakes are coming up.
Engineer: That was Purple Sector 3, so I suggest we box for a practice from Wing Adjust.
Sebastian VETTEL: Did you see that? I'm nearly pressed
Engineer: into the McLaren.
Sebastian VETTEL: Copy that.
Engineer: Checo do you see spots of rain? If you do see spots of rain you can push first time lap. Ricciardo behind is slow, tyres minus 10 on the front.
Engineer: A couple of hundredths lower than max. Obviously, Mercedes are on supers, Ferrari on ultras. Hamilton quickest at the moment on a 5.5. Yorlap, 5.9. They're just four tenths off Hamilton at the moment.
Engineer: And think about your brake balance map if you want to protect the rears at BV6.
Engineer: Well, OK, Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, all good. Just a 360.
Engineer: Understood. Copy. I'd suggest continuing to cool tyres for this lap and the next.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I'll take it easy. I took a bit of the yellow kerb on the exit at the last corner. Okay, understood.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: I think the front wing is hanging off
Engineer: Copy, copy, take care in the pit entry, take care in the pit entry We see that, front wing scraping on the right hand side, stay off the kerbs in the entry
Engineer: Only front left temp is working, but that looks reasonable, so just rely on that.
Engineer: Okay, we can still improve corner 6 and exit of 7. And we need to improve exit of corner 1.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, I flat-spot the right front too
Engineer: badly, so it must have vibrated. Okay, Sebastian is pushing behind nine seconds.
Engineer: Okay, so let us know if you want any electronic adjusts.
Engineer: Just losing a little bit. Exit turn 7. It's going to be Strat 12. Strat 12.
Engineer: You can pre-select engine 4, let engine by, good.
Engineer: So it looked like gained on entry but just lost that little bit on exit turn 3 there.
Engineer: Are you a purple sector one of them? Yeah, copy
Lewis HAMILTON: Just last quarter or last two corners last there?
Engineer: Last two corners, last two corners.
Marcus ERICSSON: Just take note that
Engineer: I have a huge vibration on this set straight way out of the garage.
Engineer: Checo, let's box. Let's box and get the high fuel information. Let's box and get the high fuel information. Copy.
Engineer: And cancel the right-hand toggle for turn nine only. Cancel right-hand toggle, turn nine only.
Pierre GASLY: How is the wind?
Engineer: Wind is low, low in intensity, and it is tailwind turn one.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the rear's a bit trickier on entry, and I'm looking to get a splash left side.
Engineer: Let's see how it connects up. Ricciardo, 4.5 behind. Ricciardo, 4 seconds behind on push-up.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, the reds
Engineer: are
Brendon HARTLEY: a bit trickier on entry, and I'm looking at the push-up top.
Engineer: Let's see how it's going to go. Ricardo, 4.5 behind. Ricardo, 4 seconds behind on push-up.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I need more on throttle as well.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We'll box this lap. We'll change the car. So box this lap.
Valtteri BOTTAS: You can find time breaking turns one and three.
Engineer: There's
Lance STROLL: something wrong.
Engineer: Bouncer. Okay, stand by.
Engineer: OK, as we can see, downshifts from fourth to third and third to second being difficult, but it's OK to continue.
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