Belgian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 2 team radio
23 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Belgian Grand Prix 2018, across 11 drivers. 22 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Nico HULKENBERG 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
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 4 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 2 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Can you check the power steering again?
Engineer: Yes, we will.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Can you check the power steering again?
Engineer: Yes, we will. From our data, the power steering is similar to the beginning of FE1, so probably it's getting better.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, that's what I thought.
Engineer: and Stoffel we will swap the floor after this run do you want one more lap in this configuration?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: I think we should box, the car isn't drivable if we say it's not worth then we should box.
Engineer: Top East to box this lap, box this lap
Engineer: We can keep temperatures up, we are maybe a bit cold temperature wise
Engineer: OK Nico, warning for missing the apex at turn 4 on the last lap.
Engineer: All OK, Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, yeah. I just had the understeer.
Engineer: OK, copy. Look out, you've got Sainz and Sorokin around you, both on slow laps.
Engineer: So Esteban, I think we might have a left rear puncture, or at least the tyre is going down very fast, so it
Esteban OCON: wasn't
Engineer: at a dangerous level, but it has rapidly decreased, so we need to check that.
Esteban OCON: OK, I overtook Ericsson down the straight, down turn 1, but nothing special really.
Engineer: No, I don't think it's anything you've done.
Engineer: It's just the final sector, lost to Reichenen mainly, two tenths.
Engineer: Just
Daniel RICCIARDO: noticed gear 6 is taking a bit of time, 6th gear it's synced now but last couple runs it hasn't synced straight away.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: Check out no energy button. Do not use energy button this lap.
Nico HULKENBERG: Again, I didn't hear the clutch release beep.
Engineer: Copy that, Nico. Recharge on, please. Recharge on.
Engineer: Hamilton last lap at 48.9, that's five laps in.
Lewis HAMILTON: Rears were definitely struggling then. How was the pace?
Engineer: Ok Luke, so the pace looked good. Valtteri was pushing hard as he was only doing a very short stint on his super soft tyre.
Engineer: Check it out, that was one second quicker than Hülkenberg's first lap and a bit more front energy management would be good, not bad, but a bit more front energy management would be good.
Engineer: Lance, before you slow down, the pace was very good, eh? It was OK. OK, so tell me then.
Engineer: and for reference rear tyre temps still climbing but only slowly now
Engineer: This run more competitive than super softs looking good Surprised
Engineer: I'm stuck in traffic now.
Engineer: Esteban, are you saving in turn 10? Can you push any more in turn 10? I'm not
Esteban OCON: saving.
Romain GROSJEAN: Okay, I've lost complete deceleration, two corners in a row. Okay, all right, we'll take a look.
Engineer: So Stoffel we need to find a bit more pace We're looking for half a second to a second more pace if it's there. You should get two laps after this Let's see what it can do
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I have a
Kimi RAIKKONEN: decent amount of vibration from the left rear with that lift.
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