Brazilian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
25 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Brazilian Grand Prix 2018, across 12 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 6.
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 · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, what is the pedal map that I need to... I changed it by error. We
Engineer: need pedal 8. Pedal 8.
Engineer: OK Sergei, if you're happy we'll box this lap.
Sergey SIROTKIN: Copy box.
Lance STROLL: Tires aren't ready
Lance STROLL: Can I do one more? I think there's more in it.
Engineer: OK, drop the reattempt, drop the reattempt then.
Engineer: And you can push.
Engineer: OK, so if you go straight out, straight out, so abort start, straight out, we need to box at the end of the lap. Take it easy. A-firm, so Hulkenberg car behind now. Do I drive up normally? So just drive back normal pace.
Nico HULKENBERG: it's a big difference between left and right steering weight, much heavier to the right
Engineer: And Fernando, are you happy to proceed with the plan change?
Fernando ALONSO: Yes, higher speed is good today, the worst corner is 10.2
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, I made a bit of a mess, middle sector, lost a lot of traction. Yeah, I massively overheated the rears, so,
Engineer: just
Brendon HARTLEY: need to calm down the rear mid to exit. I lost a lot of time on the second lap because of it.
Charles LECLERC: Charles, pit lane.
Engineer: Charles, we have to abort the lay rubber, so stop in pit stop position, stop in pit stop position. We don't even do the start? No, we have a problem, we have to check something, so stop in pit stop position, yeah.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: I'm not sure if I hit the bird into turn 11
Engineer: OK copy, we'll check We think we missed, we think we missed the bird, should be OK, no concern
Lewis HAMILTON: Taptail wind into T1, still there?
Engineer: Affirm, it's died down a little
Pierre GASLY: Who is the car stamped on track? It's Red Bull.
Engineer: He's Red Bull.
Pierre GASLY: Which one?
Engineer: I don't have it on the GPS, I'll let you know. I told Pierre it was a replay from yesterday. From Mexico, actually.
Pierre GASLY: OK, massive stamp. I'm back home.
Engineer: Watch out for the photographer's checkout
Engineer: If the
Max VERSTAPPEN: car doesn't turn entry to mid-corner.
Engineer: Both sides?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Uh, well, in general everywhere.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: You were purple in the middle sector, and a couple of tenths sector 1, just under a couple of tenths sector 3. You're looking pretty strong in the corners.
Engineer: Might
Lewis HAMILTON: as well do another lap, just...
Engineer: OK, it'll need to be strapped by 12 and you need to charge the pack, but yeah, you need to take another go. It
Lewis HAMILTON: wasn't really a decent first one, tyre prep was poor.
Engineer: Charge on, charge on, maximize full throttle, cool down the tyres.
Charles LECLERC: I don't know why you keep asking me to go the real one with drag bias, it's way too much
Engineer: Do
Lewis HAMILTON: we have time for a drive-through?
Engineer: Yeah, can do, if you need it, let us know what you want. Can you
Lewis HAMILTON: do pressure step?
Engineer: Negative.
Engineer: Okay, focus on cooling the tires.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the tires are super cold in the front. A lot of understeer still.
Engineer: Yeah, understood.
Sergio PEREZ: Back position.
Sebastian VETTEL: Ok, cool the brakes, cool the brakes, quick.
Engineer: They are on it, also quick.
Engineer: F***ing
Pierre GASLY: hell, he blocked me, like, what the hell?
Engineer: Okay, there is Hartley pushing behind, let him buy. F***ing
Pierre GASLY: hell, let him pass one corner before, then he blocks me the next one.
Engineer: Okay, we saw that, we saw that.
Engineer: Clutch position was deep 3% taking the flag That was
Lewis HAMILTON: deliberate
Engineer: Copy
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