Austrian Grand Prix 2018: Qualifying team radio
22 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix 2018, across 11 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Lewis HAMILTON: to look at the left side of my seat on the shoulder side.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: And it's just the middle sector to Betel. Just half a tenth. Let me
Lewis HAMILTON: know what you think that is. It's either 10-4 or 10-6.
Engineer: in cool in cool box this lap box box checker we know about the energy we know about the energy
Engineer: So you can take one more if you want. You have a P1 at the moment. One take to the boundary, P2.
Engineer: When I come in, have
Lewis HAMILTON: a look at the right side. One a bit wide.
Engineer: OK, copy. So time loss is still starting the lap, so speed down the start-finish straight and a little bit into turn one. I'll let you decide if you want to go for another lap.
Lewis HAMILTON: Is that Speedy coming out of the last corner?
Engineer: Some of it may be a tow, it's late. And it is starting the lap, yes.
Engineer: Magnuson three seconds behind flying lap just remember that that group will all be on a slow lap when you're trying to do a push lap that are ahead of you
Engineer: And Fernando, your switch inputs were good. Yes, but you need to tell me traffic.
Fernando ALONSO: Traffic. This is the only thing you need to tell me. OK.
Engineer: Okay, P15, P15.
Lance STROLL: Yes!
Lewis HAMILTON: so right vibration on the front tires okay
Engineer: copy
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think if I come in, then we have to check just on the left side, the wing. I didn't hit the sausage, but it fell delivered hard.
Engineer: Understood, Max. Box and confirm. Yeah.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, so first time lot, just didn't have enough front grip, particularly braking. Understood.
Engineer: How's the high speed? Could you take four more? I think you could take four more.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yes.
Engineer: and dark temperature is slowly dropping.
Engineer: More gentle braking, more gentle braking.
Carlos SAINZ: I have to take a curb to avoid him, I need a crush.
Engineer: Okay, understood, we'll report it.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Why is Daniel slopping?
Engineer: I don't know. Carry on.
Engineer: okay they need to get on with it because it's going to be pretty tight in this session
Engineer: So currently P2, Valtry P1, half a second to Valtry. Mainly a middle sector and a tenth in the final sector.
Engineer: Okay, very good lap. So Ricciardo and Verstappen are out of the pits there on their outlap. And then Raikkonen.
Engineer: Come out, you need to pick it up, otherwise we're not going to get another lap. Let's go.
Daniel RICCIARDO: There's no point in me running.
Engineer: Get on with it. Punching a hole. Get on with it.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Let's at least go one for one.
Engineer: We'll get on the next one.
Max VERSTAPPEN: GP, what's going on?
Engineer: Overtake him, mate. Just overtake him.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No. Last weekend I was in front, now he's in front. Come on, then.
Engineer: Max, overtake him, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No. It's discipline.
Engineer: So, that's P1 at the moment Valtteri, P1 at the moment. Good job, good job. Yes!
Valtteri BOTTAS: I missed it. I
Engineer: missed this one. Good man. So that's it, good job. So coming around to the grid, really good job there.
Engineer: and just need a little bit more speed just to get that delta a bit more negative okay louis so that's p2 mate very very close just a couple of hundredths in it to valkyrie p1
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