Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018: Practice 2 team radio
15 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018, across 11 drivers. 13 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lance STROLL had the most, with 4.
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
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Pierre GASLY: Same as with my accent, no way!
Engineer: What the ****
Pierre GASLY: are these guys doing?
Lance STROLL: Oh my god, it's always the traffic.
Engineer: And
Kimi RAIKKONEN: the tires cooled down too much on the previous lap, understood?
Lance STROLL: OK, then I just want you to record that. I
Engineer: really
Lance STROLL: can't see where I'm going. I'm watching, I'm watching.
Engineer: Okay, you can come back to the box. Okay, try to stay in gear and come back to the box. Okay, you have Verstappen 20 seconds behind. Hartley, sorry. Okay, you have Verstappen 12 seconds behind. Okay, you can...
Engineer: So that lap was half a second quicker than your lap on the Super Soft.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Through the puncture I touched the wall a little bit. OK, stand by, we're looking at the pressures. Which side did you touch the wall? Left. I think it's minor, maybe it's the dirt. Yeah, copy that. Pressure's on left right.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Nico HULKENBERG: What happens to the, it feels kind of I'm losing the brakes, I'm pushing harder and harder but they don't stop as well.
Engineer: You're quite a lot of people to go there, sir.
Nico HULKENBERG: Bad grading on the rear axle now.
Engineer: Copy that Nico.
Engineer: Honestly, what is this Williams doing? Williams is rocking. He was very slow last couple of laps. Not sure what he's doing
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: feel a lot of real heating.
Engineer: I couldn't understand your message, but CSL 5, you took the checker, you took the checker.
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