Brazilian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 2 team radio
44 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Brazilian Grand Prix 2018, across 16 drivers. Sebastian VETTEL 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
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 3 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 2 messages
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And mode push before the last corner.
Engineer: We will
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: perform a start on
Engineer: the left side, no burnouts allowed.
Nico HULKENBERG: Need more high-speed locators, 5 or 6, which one do you recommend?
Engineer: High-speed 6, Nico
Carlos SAINZ: And how was the balance? Oversteery side.
Engineer: Okay, Stoff, all well done. The wind has picked up since P1. It's about 5 kph stronger. You're currently P6. Nine cars have set times. And Stoff, actually lap time is not looking too bad. Grosjean is the fastest midfield car on prime. He's won 10.6. Sainz won 11.0.
Sebastian VETTEL: Check the carb, lift to the right, to the straights.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: crashed at the exit at
Engineer: the
Nico HULKENBERG: last corner
Engineer: Okay, Nico, we see it. Okay. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm
Nico HULKENBERG: fine
Engineer: Okay
Engineer: so the clerk one side okay yeah i know look ricciardo coming on the push very very out of sync two behind half the people are in sync half are out so the next two behind you
Sebastian VETTEL: Is the Renault okay?
Engineer: Yeah, he's okay. He's out on the count.
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, there's something loose between my legs apart from the obvious So repeat there's something loose between my legs apart from the obvious. So something flying around my feet
Engineer: Okay, copy
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah Around my feet. I mean I'd be proud if it was what you think it is, but it's not
Engineer: Focus on the front tires, weaving and braking.
Lewis HAMILTON: What's the strap for this lap? 12? Just 12.
Engineer: Tires were a little bit on the cool side, they'll probably be better off on the next lap. Did the tires improve through the lap, question?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, they definitely started cool.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: It's just two hundredths of Vettel's time, Raikkonen has gone P1 but that's on the Super.
Lewis HAMILTON: Two tenths did you say?
Engineer: Nope, two hundredths to Vettel.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Okay, I don't know what the f*** is happening. Where's it going?
Engineer: I
Brendon HARTLEY: was three tenths up, but I clicked the wrong button. I put recharge early.
Brendon HARTLEY: Can we disconnect the drinks tube as well? It keeps leaking into my mouth, it's plainly ***.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I had a massive understeer for some reason. Beginning of the lap was fine, turn 1, turn 4, 6, but then from there I just picked up a big understeer.
Engineer: Okay, understood, understood. Yeah, we see also on the data.
Engineer: Stoff that looked like a pretty good lap apart from turn 10 pretty good lap apart from turn 10 There's a very big tailwind in turn 10 that lap as well. We measured a very big tailwind in turn 10
Engineer: What do you want to do, box now? The only other thing we could try is, I'm still very fast through 6, you could try going slower on entry of 6 and slower through 6 overall and just see if it gives the left side tires an easier time for 8 and 10, just so they go in not so hot. So it could be interesting to try, what do you think? It's very difficult for Chip. Yeah, to know how to go slower, yeah, okay. But I can give it another go and see. We'll collect some data anyway, so yeah, try and go slower through 6, see what happens.
Sebastian VETTEL: Ok, there is still something loose, jumping
Engineer: back
Sebastian VETTEL: and forth.
Engineer: Ok, copy.
Romain GROSJEAN: That was messy
Engineer: I think they have the deployment. Yep, stand by, I'll get back to you. OK Fernando, it seems to have recovered, we're looking into it. And Fernando, the issue was throttle overlap.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Well, I had traffic with the f***ing Madrid. Understood.
Engineer: Ok Carlos, might be some drops on the exit of turn 12, might be some rain drops exit turn 12.
Engineer: Just have a look at the track condition in turn 12, get some feedback there might be some very light spots there, it's level half.
Sergey SIROTKIN: Copy.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Small drops of rain.
Engineer: Yeah, it should be really tiny and disappear quite soon.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that's
Engineer: fine. Don't worry
Sebastian VETTEL: Right rear I would say.
Engineer: And box Sebastian, box. We have an issue on the left rear, be careful.
Engineer: Vettel did 10 laps on soft, he ended on a 13.0, Hamilton on soft 8 laps in doing 13.2
Engineer: And drink test drink test I
Pierre GASLY: think it's up to you
Engineer: The
Lance STROLL: car is getting better.
Engineer: OK, if we think we're still learning then we can stay out one more lap.
Lewis HAMILTON: I've got a lot of grip, but yeah, something just doesn't feel right, but no.
Engineer: Laptimes aren't looking too bad Lewis, we're just looking into the temps.
Esteban OCON: Is there a lot of gust of wind?
Engineer: Yes, there are. Yep.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: What's happening?
Engineer: We're just getting the umbilical stuff. We have a problem.
Engineer: How's the front wing, Daniel? How's the front wing?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, it's okay.
Engineer: I
Daniel RICCIARDO: wouldn't take more.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: And Fernando, engine braking test, shape 5, torque 5, shape 5, torque 5.
Fernando ALONSO: Wait, because the first seat here destroyed the three laps so far.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I went a bit wide.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: You
Lewis HAMILTON: should stop and do some work on the rest of the car.
Engineer: OK, so box, box, box, box, we're going to switch to the other tyre.
Lewis HAMILTON: I think, can you do the same you just did to the rears? Rears are not working.
Engineer: OK, copy Lewis, we will just go for the stop, we're going to have a 10 second hold.
Lewis HAMILTON: You can pull me in to do anything to the rears.
Engineer: Negative, I haven't got anything prepared for that, it's not a quick change. You
Lewis HAMILTON: guys should be prepared for everything.
Esteban OCON: Ok, I need to back off.
Engineer: So, Räikkönen 5 behind, you can back off towards Räikkönen 5 behind, but that's pretty much it. Back off late though, don't do it now, don't do it now. Don't do it now.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, I cannot in the corner go on throttle, Brad.
Romain GROSJEAN: Yep, no comment again.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: My mirror has come off.
Engineer: Okay, understood, understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the rungs are very poor, I can't turn.
Engineer: Understood. Is that balance or tyre condition?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Both.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Protect your spots are right at turn 12 again.
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