Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018: Race team radio
70 radio messages were recorded during race at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2018, across 16 drivers. 69 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 21.
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 · 21 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 6 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And just be careful with the wind conditions, so expecting the tailwind to fall.
Lewis HAMILTON: Take some more wind please
Engineer: Okay, copy, pulling back into the garage Just be careful with that tailwind, cars are running on
Engineer: I
Sergio PEREZ: need to close up the helmet. Too much air coming through.
Engineer: You gotta cool the brakes, rear brakes.
Engineer: OK Fernando, tyre info. Option starters are Hülkenberg and Gatley. Backup starters are Hartley and Grosjean. Everybody else is on prime.
Pierre GASLY: Check the... Check the tires! Check the tires, I want to...
Fernando ALONSO: Okay, I need to pox. What a stupid guy. He closed me the door. You know, we were side by side. I don't understand.
Engineer: Obviously just keep as much temp in the tires as possible, but don't go wasting too much fuel doing it
Engineer: Checker, we are going to box. We are going to box. It's too much damage. We are going to box.
Lance STROLL: I'm locking the front a lot when I hit the pedal hard.
Engineer: So caliper temperatures not very hot but they're getting to the hotter end just information
Engineer: So give me feedback, in terms of fuel we are very close to be on target so will be not an issue. And if you can take a bit easy with the rear brakes, they are a bit hot.
Engineer: You start
Lewis HAMILTON: stopping, that's dangerous.
Engineer: Pit 4, grip. OK, copy. You can use HVP 4, position 3 if you need it.
Engineer: OK, tyres are looking good now, tyres are good.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Mate, my battery is not starting.
Engineer: It's the overtake button usage, Max.
Engineer: Leave me alone
Engineer: Repeat please Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm clipping like hell!
Engineer: I hit the wall OK
Nico HULKENBERG: Oh it's over
Engineer: Try and get it back if you can This race isn't over yet
Daniel RICCIARDO: How can I charge the battery?
Engineer: Mode 7, charging up quick here, mode 7.
Romain GROSJEAN: Our Yokeanto speed feels very slow.
Engineer: I think I have a problem with the GPS. All the power,
Brendon HARTLEY: energy and DRS is wrong.
Engineer: Update your tyre switch when you can
Engineer: I thought it was Flam B, not Flan A.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Massive lock-up.
Engineer: Copy, how's the vibration?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Feels quite flat.
Engineer: What
Lewis HAMILTON: my police tires is for?
Engineer: Okay, copy
Engineer: Yeah, copy. Okay, we'll sort it out for the next one.
Engineer: So, Kimi, the DRS activation will be manual everywhere, manual everywhere. You can use it only when I tell you, only when I tell you. And the message will be DRS OK.
Engineer: Lap 19 completed, Hamilton 4.4 behind, very good lap.
Engineer: And Lewis, can we go chassis default 40, 4-0? So cancel chassis default, cancel chassis default.
Lewis HAMILTON: Something's happened, I don't know what, man.
Engineer: Okay, copy, we'll look into it.
Lewis HAMILTON: It's tyres are done.
Engineer: Copy, copy, so box, box, box, box, we're ready for you.
Lewis HAMILTON: Don't mess with me with the switch changes, okay?
Engineer: We have 8 seconds margin to Hamilton, 8 seconds margin, we stay out.
Engineer: Okay, so Hamilton came out on soft tyres, looks like his Wilmot's not very good
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I'll just lay back and I'll try to let the car out
Engineer: of
Kimi RAIKKONEN: the car.
Lewis HAMILTON: Just just messed my race up
Lewis HAMILTON: It's a long way to go on these tyres.
Engineer: Should easily do the race.
Engineer: Okay, Pace is picking up, that's good, we're slightly ahead of Grosjean now in the pit window, that's good.
Engineer: Okay Carlos, you're gaining 4 tenths per lap to the cars ahead.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I feel like I'm losing temperature in the front tires, I have more shattering on the front with every lap.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: And Lewis, we will need low 45s if we want to keep P2, low 45s.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Can we get more even on the reels?
Engineer: I'm multi-B white RB position 8 when you can. Multi-B white RB position 8, not urgent. Do
Sebastian VETTEL: I need it if I don't want it?
Engineer: Okay, go ahead like this.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's always very cold or something, very long trip.
Engineer: Yep, we are losing a little bit of temperature Max, so just keep up the pace for the moment, you're doing a solid job.
Engineer: And a blue flag for Bottas, leader of the race.
Engineer: Ok Stoffel, how's this tyre doing now? Yeah, not great. It's not really grating but losing performance.
Lewis HAMILTON: These drivers aren't moving out of the way.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that Lewis, we can see it.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I can't continue anymore
Engineer: Okay, understand Max, I understand we're getting close just keep it clean at the moment
Engineer: Right now you're gonna have to do them again. Let's game come on
Engineer: P0 before you get out mate if you're stuck
Sebastian VETTEL: Everything okay?
Engineer: Yeah, everything okay.
Engineer: I think the circuit is blocked. Stay positive, stay positive, stay positive.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I think the circuit is blocked, they are telling us to go through pit lane for everybody.
Engineer: How can it be a hairball? He was in front at 12 seconds and he had the gap to pit for the safety car.
Engineer: Lookout for the debris is around turn one, both Red Bulls collided.
Engineer: we can un-lap ourselves. So, stay focused.
Engineer: Okay, keep warming your tires.
Engineer: So stay on line, no weaving.
Lewis HAMILTON: I thought I already did that.
Engineer: OK, copy Lewis, no worries. No I don't,
Lewis HAMILTON: are you telling me to turn it back off, or what?
Engineer: So just leave it as it is, thank you very much.
Lewis HAMILTON: Right front seems to be glazed.
Engineer: OK, roger, looking at it. OK, looks like it's coming back up. It's just a small offset Lewis, looks like, across the front axle, but not actually glazed, so yeah, just keep working them.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: The cars are not giving the minimum length of the cars to each other.
Engineer: Understood, Kimi.
Engineer: So keep working those tires.
Engineer: Do you
Lance STROLL: want saturating on the front?
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, that's fine. Is
Lance STROLL: it better if I saturate?
Engineer: Yes, copy, you can do that, copy.
Engineer: luca it's already locking the front now the brake balance yeah i know but i did that for the temperature for the front temperature so if you start to lock go back minus two click
Sebastian VETTEL: How were the tires for Kimi? Oh, he didn't do
Engineer: much on the first lift. Yeah, he did only half a lap on one lap.
Engineer: Need
Lewis HAMILTON: to tell Charlie that he should have stopped the race that truck The back end of that Chuck that corner of that trailer the easy touchy smashes Copy
Engineer: that Lewis. That's noted
Engineer: Oh my god, it just blew up on it's own. **** 12, defmet 12.
Engineer: Come on, come on Lance, Gleckler, Gleckler, one more lap.
Engineer: Get in there Lewis. Well done mate. I think lady luck was on our side today That's real bad luck for Valtteri, so yeah heart goes out to him
Sergio PEREZ: unbelievable guys we did it once again guys once again once again it's not a coincidence that we are always there thank you guys
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