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Team radio transcript

Brazilian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio

50 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Brazilian Grand Prix 2018, across 18 drivers. 49 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 10.

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull

    Engineer: The tyres have obviously cooled down a little bit, but the pressure should be good. So grounding will be okay, but just be aware that obviously we're on mediums and they may be a little bit cool.

  2. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Pierre GASLY: The mechanics can give me more space when I park, otherwise I cannot be straight, it's really tight, to give me more space.

  3. Charles LECLERCSauber

    Charles LECLERC: Ciao, Pitlane.

    Engineer: Copy, Pitlane. Stop in front of your garage, please. You

    Charles LECLERC: said stop in front of your garage, no? Yes. Yeah.

  4. Lance STROLLWilliams

    Lance STROLL: There's something moving in the petal bus.

    Engineer: Okay, copy that. We can look at that.

  5. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay Lando, you're currently the only car out on track so you can drive this slow lap as you want to.

  6. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: And Lando, just a little bit of feedback for you, be careful of early throttle pickup turn 4, and there was a little bit of tailwind through turn 6-7. And Lando, be careful of kerbs, especially turn 4.

  7. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay Lando, that was a nice lap with a good improvement.

  8. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull

    Engineer: Okay, so you can probably work your tires a little bit to get a bit more temperature

  9. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull

    Engineer: How are the tires to start the lap question?

    Daniel RICCIARDO: They're okay to start.

    Engineer: Okay, so in that case you can afford to cool down a bit

  10. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: Target is clear, you can push.

  11. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Pierre GASLY: Steering is a bit bent on the right, right hand side down

    Engineer: Copy, Pierre

  12. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: OK Lando, we suggest box this lap, box this lap, how are the tyres?

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, box confirmed, not too bad, really feels like they're going away a bit, but it's not too bad.

  13. Nicholas LATIFIForce India

    Nicholas LATIFI: Is the front right tyre temp correct? Because it's quite a big delta, front left to front right.

    Engineer: Copy that, yes, we do think it's right, yes, and there will be a delta. Brakes were maybe not as hot as we'd normally have starting the lap, so standard cool-off, we don't need to do extra cool.

  14. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: And Grosjean on a time-lapse is 10 seconds behind.

    Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah I can see him.

  15. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Pierre GASLY: 40-bit power flow, can turn one.

    Engineer: Yes, we've seen it.

  16. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: They have

    Lewis HAMILTON: backed up again

  17. Carlos SAINZRenault

    Engineer: OK Carlsen, just a reminder to look at your pit board please, make sure it's in the right place.

    Carlos SAINZ: Copy.

  18. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: Like I said, struggling a bit with the brakes, the feel of the brakes.

  19. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Gap. I need to make an amendment, I've got a lot of understeer. OK, copy.

    Engineer: Let us know what you need.

  20. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari

    Engineer: 160 kph for Cindia behind

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah but I cannot see them so... 10

    Engineer: seconds behind Toro Rosso And next car is ASI... Ok I'll stop doing this I'm

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: gonna vlog some of the other ones Ok, and box, give me box

  21. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: OK, so that's P1, 8 hundredths, Verstappen P2, he's on the same tyre.

  22. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: So he's still P2, half a tenth behind Hamilton, purple sector 1 and 2, he is purple in sector 3.

  23. Nicholas LATIFIForce India

    Nicholas LATIFI: I'm probably going to leave the open diff on for the whole lap after the first three turns just because I feel like I'm struggling with a lot of mid-corner understeer especially in the slower corners understood

    Engineer: we're okay with that understood

  24. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: Ok mate, I got twice blocked by yellow team, you need to be a bit more careful Yep, understood, we'll pass on the message

  25. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull

    Engineer: Okay, switch off, thank you.

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Apologies. Did I collect him?

    Engineer: Alright.

  26. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: It just goes straight into anti-stall.

    Engineer: I can't, I can't go. Yeah, okay, understood. We'll just check it now.

    Lando NORRIS: Should I turn it off, or...?

    Engineer: Stand by. Okay, let's turn it off please, Lando. Okay, Lando, just stand by. We're just checking what's going on.

  27. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: OK Lando, stand by

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, same thing

    Engineer: And switch it off again please Lando

  28. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: And that was on target. Currently the only car out on track to drive the outlap as you want it.

  29. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: Might need to put a little energy in the front right. Yeah, I can't understand why there's a car in the pit lane. Repeat. Just energy in the front right. Okay.

  30. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Pierre GASLY: Ok, do another warm-up, because the front wheels are not ready at all.

  31. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Driver default, Alpha Zero Two, if you can do it before stopping, otherwise you stop on the mark and then switch off.

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: It won't let me do it.

    Engineer: Ok, no worries, switch off.

  32. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso

    Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, I jammed it out to the middle of the high speed. Yeah, he was at the middle of the high speed corner.

  33. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren

    Stoffel VANDOORNE: Too much traffic copy

    Engineer: copy

  34. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: So Verstappen's just completed a lap, he's just under a tenth faster, it's all in the middle sector to Verstappen, it's turn 8, 9 and 10, look to be the gains for Verstappen.

  35. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Pierre GASLY: I'll get traffic with Brandon Again, so much front lock

  36. Antonio GIOVINAZZISauber

    Engineer: Just be careful on braking, off-throttle and brakes on, you tend to cross over the two, so just be careful with that.

    Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, OK.

  37. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Engineer: I

    Pierre GASLY: thought he was stupid

    Engineer: Close the lap

  38. Nicholas LATIFIForce India

    Engineer: Yellow button is latched. Yeah,

    Nicholas LATIFI: it's OK, I'm going to keep it on for turn one.

  39. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  40. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull

    Engineer: OK reverse on, reverse on, looks like the tyres might be a bit past their best so we'll box this lap.

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep.

  41. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: Can we just do a quick flap adjust, it's still understeering. Yeah, AFR, copy that. Just call us two. Plus two, copy that.

  42. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: Do you want a bit of recharge? The SOC is very low.

    Engineer: No, it's okay.

  43. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: OK Lando, I think everything is OK, can you comment please, any damage?

    Lando NORRIS: I think OK, I went over quite a big curve, but yeah, I think it's fine, but your choice.

    Engineer: OK Lando, we would like to box, we would like to box, stand by for more instructions.

    Lando NORRIS: Copy, box to snap.

    Engineer: We're going to stop on the marks, we're going to stop on the marks, and we're going to check the front wing. So just look for the signal from Carrie, if he's happy we'll go. And we'll just do a pull away from the box if Carrie's happy.

  44. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: And drive straight out, drive straight out. Do

    Lando NORRIS: you know what the cause of that oversteer was?

    Engineer: So Lando, nothing outstanding in the data, little bit of tailwind. We suggest not using the right hand toggle in that area. I

    Lando NORRIS: think it was B3.

    Engineer: Yep, so remember to reset before turn four.

  45. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Most people have been quickest on their first time lap

  46. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: All right, so we'll have to work with this, obviously the space on track that we wanted Vettel's got

  47. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Stroll just got in my way

    Engineer: Yeah, okay mate understood

  48. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: It was 20 long.

    Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, to me it looked fine.

  49. Antonio GIOVINAZZISauber

    Engineer: And Antonio, something I forgot, remember to say as well, Antonio pit lane when you just come in, so like this everybody knows that you are pit entry, thank you

  50. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: Smokebox entry, that's it.

    Nico HULKENBERG: Ooh, that was a good one.

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