Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018: Qualifying team radio
27 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018, across 15 drivers. 26 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 5.
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 · 5 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 3 messages
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay Nico, so obviously almost all cars are already out. I expect that means that the queue is going to form and back up at the end of this lap. So in the slowest points of the circuit would be well worth making some time.
Romain GROSJEAN: Guys, the gearbox is blocked. Gearbox is blocked.
Engineer: Okay, working on it.
Engineer: Stoffel, do you know where we are on front wing? Did you get enough corners to do that?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Hard to tell, hard to tell. Feels about alright.
Engineer: Bottas one second back now. James, time to do one more or not? Negative, we need to box, box.
Engineer: So next car that's pushing is Alonso. He's 10 seconds behind.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Pierre GASLY: What the f***?
Brendon HARTLEY: I have a problem with the front wing or puncture, I don't know.
Brendon HARTLEY: I got in the way of gasoline, I tried to get out of the way, I'm so sorry.
Engineer: Yeah, as you I think I don't know if you notice that you lost the left tallies completely
Pierre GASLY: Unacceptable. I cannot believe I'm coming at 320 and it's f***ed
Engineer: up. He had a puncture, he had a puncture, he had a puncture, he cannot do anything.
Engineer: Do you want me to do a preflap, or do you want me to go
Sergey SIROTKIN: straight for the pushlap?
Engineer: One pushlap.
Lewis HAMILTON: I just had a massive lock-up. It
Engineer: looks okay on our numbers.
Engineer: so ideally stay behind Ocon just to get the tip
Lance STROLL: I touched the wall a little bit, front to right.
Engineer: Hey, tell Kimi I'll give him a tow. Copy. He went wide. 2.5
Engineer: Up until the yellow flag, I was a couple of tenths off.
Fernando ALONSO: The worst position possible, I'm down now
Engineer: Mate, don't worry about it, we're currently P8, currently P8
Engineer: Make
Lewis HAMILTON: the change to the tires at the rear.
Engineer: Let's just go quali at turn 20. So go quali.
Engineer: Yeah, Vettel's nine seconds behind. You're not going to make it, mate.
Engineer: OK, Lucio will abandon the lap, abandon the lap, so get the charge in the pack. Alonso behind five seconds, so box, box, box, box.
Sergey SIROTKIN: Yeah, I think could squeeze a bit more from it, but anyway very good job guys
Lance STROLL: Anyways, on the positive side, we can decide what to do tomorrow with the tyres and all that stuff, so let's work with it.
Engineer: Yep, you're the furthest place up to make the choice.
Engineer: What were your thoughts on the tri-grip warm-up?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Actually quite good
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I almost went in the wall and I was gone. I was on a curb and could have still... Understood.
Nico HULKENBERG: What was that? Is there still anybody behind, or no?
Engineer: Nobody behind, Nico.
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