Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Team radio transcript

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Pierre GASLY: Same as with my accent, no way!

    Engineer: What the ****

    Pierre GASLY: are these guys doing?

  2. Lance STROLLWilliams

    Lance STROLL: Oh my god, it's always the traffic.

  3. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari

    Engineer: And

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: the tires cooled down too much on the previous lap, understood?

  4. Lance STROLLWilliams

    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.

  5. Marcus ERICSSONSauber

    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...

  6. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull

    Engineer: So that lap was half a second quicker than your lap on the Super Soft.

  7. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  8. Lance STROLLWilliams

    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.

  9. Charles LECLERCSauber

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  10. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    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.

  11. Carlos SAINZRenault

    Engineer: You're quite a lot of people to go there, sir.

  12. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: Bad grading on the rear axle now.

    Engineer: Copy that Nico.

  13. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren

    Engineer: Honestly, what is this Williams doing? Williams is rocking. He was very slow last couple of laps. Not sure what he's doing

  14. Lance STROLLWilliams

    Engineer: I

    Lance STROLL: feel a lot of real heating.

  15. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: I couldn't understand your message, but CSL 5, you took the checker, you took the checker.

More from this weekend

Every session of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018Search the full archive