British Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
35 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the British Grand Prix 2018, across 17 drivers. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 4 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: For
Pierre GASLY: some reason the rear tires are really hot compared to the front. Like I was on target on the front, but 15 degrees higher
Engineer: on the rear. It's normal because we did the blankets for hard that are very high, but we have our reference.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Can you let me know how the wind is compared to yesterday?
Engineer: Expecting the same as yesterday but I will let you know once we've got some track data
Engineer: At the moment similar max so tailwind turn three four then you have the headwind into six Before it switches on the exit of turn seven back into a tailwind exit turn seven
Max VERSTAPPEN: Press recharge because I wanted to upshift and it downshifted.
Engineer: OK.
Engineer: And for this run, use mode F2 rather than mode push. It will make MGUK correct for turn 9. So mode F2 instead of mode push.
Pierre GASLY: The steering is a bit bent to the right.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: How were the tires on the first run, do you think? I
Romain GROSJEAN: don't know.
Engineer: Brendan, are you okay?
Brendon HARTLEY: Yep, suspension failure.
Pierre GASLY: Engine feels really slow, is everything normal?
Engineer: We check, we check.
Engineer: So stuff will take a lot of care past the accident. There's a lot a lot of debris in turn six so Check the tire pressures copy we're watching
Engineer: OK, understood, which corner please, which corner? Front left, as soon as I hit the brake OK, understood, front left Remember, P0, P1, P0, master switch off when you jump out Yeah, copy OK, we can see in the data Brandon, we can see that
Sebastian VETTEL: Is he okay? Let me know if he's okay.
Engineer: Yeah, he's okay.
Engineer: We have a hard layout, turn 7, turn 7.
Pierre GASLY: Is he fine?
Engineer: He's fine.
Pierre GASLY: OK. Did you check the engine, because it feels like I'm slower than yesterday?
Engineer: Yes, we are checking, Pierre.
Pierre GASLY: And just check the tires as well, because there are some debris.
Engineer: Yes, we are checking.
Nico HULKENBERG: Are the real temps really that cold?
Engineer: They're like in the 60s on my display. Yes, so that's, that's, temperature's correct Nico, temperature is correct.
Engineer: OK Marcus, so for info, Charlie does same lap time than you, but we are losing a good 2.10 turn 1 compared to him.
Engineer: essentially, traffic all the way yeah,
Sergio PEREZ: track position was very poor
Engineer: That's a nice lap Fernando, highest of the prime runners.
Engineer: OK Nico, we're going to need to box this lap, we're going to need to box this lap. So why do we have to box? There's an issue that we need to sort out in the garage Nico.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: It's very strange on that last lap, it's like something was broken at the rear almost, there was zero, zero rear grip.
Engineer: Copy, we'll check everything.
Engineer: track surface is slippery where you are now there might be some debris
Engineer: Potential debris through 10, 11, 12, 13.
Engineer: We've still got the debris warning through 11, 12, 13. Do you notice anything? No, it's the last fast right-hander. There's a little bit of debris, but it's offline, so all good. Understood.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I still have an issue in turn 4. Understood. The outlap was perfect, but the time-lapse was disaster again.
Engineer: And for turn 4, Kimi, mid 2 could help. Mid 2 could help.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Does it affect the entry or something, no?
Engineer: The entry, yes.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: But I have to do it before, obviously. No,
Engineer: no, only entry to 4. Only entry to 4.
Engineer: Raikkonen improved by four tenths on his second push lap on soft. I don't think that is going to be a trend
Engineer: OK Lewis, so P1, purple sectors are 1 and 2, so 3 hundredths to Reichenen in the final sector, but all very close.
Engineer: So Lewis is more aggressive turn three to four throttle
Engineer: How's the balance Daniel? How's the balance?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Slacks a little bit overall grip initially some front then the rear
Sergio PEREZ: What happened in the into 17? I just lost the rear end massively.
Engineer: Check a bit aggressive on the kerb 16-17.
Romain GROSJEAN: Where can I improve?
Engineer: Entry turn six is the place we could gain. There's no diff openness there. You could try a little more open diff entry or mid.
Engineer: Look
Lance STROLL: at all that traffic.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah that last lap just lost the overall grip probably more than real
Nico HULKENBERG: The ETRS is stuck open Oh, now it's closed
Engineer: Copy that, Nico
Engineer: OK Fernando, we will have to go round again, we will go round again, so we'll take the chequered flag this time round.
Fernando ALONSO: We didn't take it already?
Engineer: It was basically a repeat of last year, we just about missed it.
Fernando ALONSO: I mean, we cannot do the start now, even if we miss it for one tenth. We should stop it.
Engineer: We need to take the chequered flag I'm afraid, we need to stay out and take the chequered flag.
Fernando ALONSO: What a joke.
Engineer: Did he do that DRS thing in the pushing laps too? I'm not sure at the moment, Nico, when that occurred. I don't think so. I think you would have felt it, but we'll confirm later.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: The lid, like the thing on top of the chassis, you take off to see the pedals, it's falling off, just so you know. Okay, understood, understood. Box, Kevin, box, please confirm. Box now.
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