Bahrain Grand Prix 2018: Qualifying team radio
27 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2018, across 14 drivers. Brendon HARTLEY 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
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 5 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 2 messages
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay Marcus, so nobody around you at the moment, so concentrate on your clap preparation.
Engineer: Focus on brake and tyres, focus on brake and tyres. At the moment, it's just us and Sauber in front of you.
Engineer: it shouldn't be nobody behind you nobody behind you arianto artley sorry i just started his quick lap time
Engineer: So you were about two tenths quicker than Marcus gaining half a tenth in sector one and sector two and one tenth sector three
Charles LECLERC: copy
Engineer: Yeah, I had a lot too much understeer, why not a couple of turns? Very bad lap. Maybe two steps of front flap. We have a damaged front wing, we have a damaged front wing.
Brendon HARTLEY: Okay, copy.
Romain GROSJEAN: Fudge, we're too slow on the slow lap.
Engineer: Which
Fernando ALONSO: position we are?
Engineer: Fernando, we will need to go again, we will need to go again, P15 I
Fernando ALONSO: don't know why
Engineer: Mate, don't worry, the DRS had us over there, don't worry
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, but I don't understand why they put the DRS, you know, if it's green, the corner, stupid
Engineer: F***, f***, f***. Are you alright, Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, all good.
Engineer: Ok, front wing is damaged, we hit something. Brendan, front wing is damaged, we change it now. I ran a bit wide in turn 7, it could have happened then, but then I had crazy understeer after. No, we hit a bird, we hit a bird, that's why turn 7 was very understeer. Ah, ok, that makes more sense.
Engineer: I think I must have hit the bird very early in the last lap because the balance was better the whole way. Confirmed. Box, box.
Engineer: and let's drive the outlap exactly how we practiced
Engineer: I'm
Charles LECLERC: so stupid, I am so stupid, my bad
Engineer: OK lads, that's us, unfortunately we're P20
Engineer: Okay, unfortunately, that's 16 Sorry, the outlap was a mess. Yeah, sorry understood
Nico HULKENBERG: I lost power.
Engineer: What
Nico HULKENBERG: happened there? Completely lost power out of the last corner.
Engineer: OK, Nico. Recharge on as you are.
Nico HULKENBERG: I think it was a D-rate, wasn't it?
Engineer: Negative, Nico. Negative. What is it? We'll tell you later, Nico.
Sergio PEREZ: Oh, I run out of energy.
Engineer: Understood. Understood. In call confirmed. Box, box. Pick confirmed.
Nico HULKENBERG: I didn't like that run so much, we've got too much on the sea now
Engineer: Yeah, there's quite a lot of front locking as well
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Still P8. Still
Engineer: P8, yes. Still P8, I think we can do a bit better.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: How far to P6?
Engineer: To P6 is 2 tenths.
Engineer: Okay Nico, that looked like a nice lap. We're currently P6 but you're the first to set a time.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I have no idea what the hell we're supposed to do. This is the region where I want to go earlier.
Engineer: OK, Brendan, hard luck, P11, hard luck, P11.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, copy. Made a mistake last corner.
Engineer: OK, Brendan, it's a big shame, but obviously a very good job, very good recovery from yesterday. So we need to keep it up on the races tomorrow.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, copy that.
Engineer: We are in pier we are in p9
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I run out of battery again, on the back straight.
Engineer: OK, check out, copy that, copy that.
Engineer: The
Pierre GASLY: Clutch is really aggressive
Engineer: We are looking at the tapir
Engineer: Thank you mate, so we are P5, it's all pretty tight, it's from U to P2 is about 2 tenths at the moment, in fact P1 is only 3 tenths, so it's all nip and tuck at the front.
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: don't know where that time is in the last sector.
Engineer: You are purple in the final sector.
Pierre GASLY: The thing is really hot in the seat.
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