Belgian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
23 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Belgian Grand Prix 2018, across 13 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Remember we have new brakes for turn 5 and tyres will be on the cold side
Engineer: Just remember this is a potential race set, so don't kill him.
Engineer: We suggest opening the next lap in shape 2 and then afterwards it would be back to shape 3
Engineer: Stoffels, Turn 12 was a good step compared to yesterday. Turn 12 was a good step. Let's see if we can improve there further.
Engineer: OK, Nico, just touch the limit on the left rear at the exit of Turn 4.
Engineer: OK, recharge on, and you're clear from traffic at the moment, so how was the balance?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, quite good, happier than yesterday.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Okay Nico, right on the limit with tyre temperature.
Lewis HAMILTON: not good to go at the end no we
Engineer: have really got the mileage that's the problem sure
Engineer: So that was a small improvement in middle sector. So still purple there. Ricciardo at five and a half seconds behind.
Engineer: So Esteban we was probably too cold on front tyre temperature to start that lap
Engineer: There's a lot to gain in turn 5, but more in turn 6 you slow down too much, turn 7 is ok, but turn 6 is very very slow.
Engineer: How was the balance Daniel? I saw you had a bit of traffic.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, yeah some traffic, I think it was still on the understeer side for that one lap. Okay understood.
Engineer: Turn eight consider using fourth gear
Engineer: The
Lance STROLL: rears are also too hot, I need to go slower on the rears.
Engineer: Check it, we'll do another cool off lap, we'll do another cool off lap but we need to keep front temperature.
Lewis HAMILTON: Vibration is set.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: So currently P3 at the moment, got Vettel at P2, just a couple of hundredths ahead, then Reichen with a 42.7 as well. Looks like Vettel may have picked up a toe on sector 1.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Samurai Renn in turn one.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Stoffel, is the car okay?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: No, it's not. I mean, what the hell was that Mercedes doing?
Engineer: F***ing
Stoffel VANDOORNE: pushed me on the grass. F***ing hell.
Engineer: Okay.
Engineer: Copy that copy that
Engineer: Copy that, copy that.
Engineer: OK, I suggest you keep at the base, we may not get a time-lapse, but you'll be able to push. OK,
Daniel RICCIARDO: in the last sector let me know, and if we're not going to make it, we'll make space. It should be possible.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh, it's a bit of
Engineer: a
Max VERSTAPPEN: mess.
Engineer: Yeah, it is what it is.
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