Bahrain Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio
24 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2018, across 12 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: wind so far as predicted around the lap max
Max VERSTAPPEN: I couldn't reach, uh oh, so I'm in false neutral somehow.
Engineer: OK, we're looking into this Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think I can hear the turbo, quite aggressive.
Engineer: Max, mode 1 please and box, mode 1 and box.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm running out of speed Okay,
Engineer: I understand Max. Do you have no drive at all? No power? No, no, yeah, exactly. It's not accelerating. Okay, if you do stop Roll as far as you can if you do eventually stop then on the right hand side, please mate. I
Max VERSTAPPEN: have to turn it off
Engineer: Stand by Max Keep rolling if you can Max
Engineer: what should I do if you can roll it to the pit lane entry it doesn't look like you're gonna be able to get there if you can great if you know I
Max VERSTAPPEN: tried to pull pull away but now I'm stuck in first okay
Engineer: max you can turn the ignition off please P1 P0 and jump out for the moment thank you
Engineer: So, Esteban, most likely you may have a yellow flag down the pit straight where they're pushing Verstappen back into the pits.
Engineer: Okay, so it's clear behind and clear ahead and it's go deploy before the last corner. Three time-laps.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: And the wind, which way?
Engineer: Wind is coming to the north, so basically will be headwind on the main straight and tailwind on the back straight.
Lance STROLL: Okay, so I have some aggressive downshifts, mainly fourth, third gear.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We'll look into that.
Lance STROLL: I have too much oversteer if I spun. Yeah, copy that. Probably flat spot of the tires pretty bad.
Charles LECLERC: Ah, no, I... I... I spun. I think we need to... we need to box.
Engineer: Copy that. Box, sister. Box, box.
Engineer: they
Lewis HAMILTON: were so unspun it
Engineer: happened right in front of you that was stroll uh happened almost a second you went past that section i
Lewis HAMILTON: couldn't see uh there was they were behind the board so i could see them there
Engineer: was no yellows at the time you went past so no worries
Engineer: Yeah, I couldn't continue pushing because of the door rustle. Yeah, understood, see ya now.
Engineer: Yeah, the car is an absolute mess. Very, very difficult to drive. OK, understood.
Engineer: And you can practice stopping on the marks from here where the box is slippy.
Charles LECLERC: Box, I have a problem, I crossed the line in the pit entry, but I had a problem, so I don't know if that's okay, but steering wheel is not straight at all.
Lewis HAMILTON: Tire's pretty dead after that ride.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Engineer: Is anyone coming anywhere close to repeating the lap time on the super soft, on the first time lap? That's negative. Okay, so I'm not the only one there. Going more than half a second slower, yeah? Yeah, I affirm.
Engineer: I
Sergey SIROTKIN: was really struggling with the last corner. I don't know if the wind has changed or not, but it was much worse than the previous run.
Engineer: Okay, copy that.
Engineer: We are box this lap for a nose box change.
Fernando ALONSO: Okay, box.
Brendon HARTLEY: Basically a step in the right direction.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: So you can build some space. I
Charles LECLERC: also slowed down so much in the last corner and I could not do anything.
Romain GROSJEAN: What the f*** is he doing?
Engineer: Yeah, saw it mate
Engineer: Check our red flag, box, box, box, box. The red flag is for the group procedure.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, so drive through the pit lane, stay on the fast lane, stop the car on the fast lane, engine off but stay in P1.
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