British Grand Prix 2018: Qualifying team radio
33 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the British Grand Prix 2018, across 17 drivers. Esteban OCON 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
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 4 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Right now wind is a headwind in one. It feels gusty here, but I don't know about out there.
Pierre GASLY: I've quite a lot of vibration
Engineer: There we go. Everything on target. Everything looking good. Go for it, mate.
Engineer: You OK? You OK? I'm stuck. OK, we can try reverse. OK, I've got 20 seconds to switch off if you can't get reverse. OK, switch off, switch off, and then go P0, P0. OK.
Engineer: We have a vibration on the rear tire. Next setter will be better.
Engineer: Just wait, because all the queuing at the end of the pit lane will be queuing again in the last corner, so there's no point following them around.
Engineer: We need to go a bit quicker than this Esteban to overtake that car
Sergey SIROTKIN: Just to let you know that the temperature delta is quite a lot higher than in the previous outlap So maybe for the next set you could do something to be sure it's on the lower side when we leave
Engineer: Yeah, understood. We just want to get one on the board here and then we'll do the same procedure we have been doing
Engineer: Well,
Max VERSTAPPEN: I lost gear, see.
Engineer: Okay, keep going.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it keeps going like that.
Engineer: Keep going, Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I don't need to do anything in settings because he's all over the track.
Engineer: And yellow flags turn 15. Box, box, box. That's the right thing to do. We've plenty of time to do another run. And your pace was good, Fernando.
Engineer: Okay, big snap exit of 780. Yeah, I saw that snap. Yeah, we're looking, yep. No diff separation, it comes from double wheel spin, just double wheel spin there.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I've got traffic with Magnus and who did I make a mistake?
Engineer: Ok, understood Carlos
Pierre GASLY: What is our position?
Engineer: So we are P15, we are in Q2 Ok,
Pierre GASLY: that's cool
Engineer: So box, box, box. Just be aware Lewis will be on a lap. This could be race start set.
Engineer: Okay, good luck. Box now, box now.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: The car is touching a lot
Engineer: The
Lewis HAMILTON: rears are a little bit hot already.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: So, Esteban, these are warmer than the previous set. These tyres are warmer than the previous set.
Engineer: Esteban, you're through in P10, through in P10.
Esteban OCON: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Good job. Nice one. Let's continue.
Engineer: We are p11
Nico HULKENBERG: Nice sweet position that is for tomorrow. Well done guys.
Engineer: Okay, okay
Engineer: Ok Piarra, P-14, P-14 This
Pierre GASLY: is the maximum we have
Sergio PEREZ: Fight for Sector 1
Engineer: Yeah, a lot of cars struggled Sector 1, Magnus and Esteban and yourself struggled
Engineer: So Esteban we're picking up a bit more wind, there is a bit more wind, it's up to 7 kph, tailwind out of 9, tailwind out of 14.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Got no DRS.
Engineer: OK. If traffic allows, try and go full throttle again after 5 and try DRS this time again please. Try DRS between 5 and 6. No, I don't have it. OK, understood.
Engineer: Okay, then we are looking into the problem
Esteban OCON: Very poor rear support, especially 3
Engineer: -4 and
Esteban OCON: 6-7.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I don't know why, but I've lost time on my quickshift.
Engineer: We are checking, we saw, thank you, understood.
Engineer: We can drop, it's fine, we can drop just a bit, you have time to do whatever you want, you can go to mode push and put a great lap together, come on boy!
Lewis HAMILTON: Is there anything to gain being in tow?
Engineer: Active.
Engineer: Try DRS now.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Still don't have it.
Engineer: OK, fail 28, fail, fail 28, fail.
Engineer: Nice work Lewis, British Grand Prix pole. Yes, get in here, get in there Lewis, you can hear it mate, you can hear that crowd. Well done there mate, that was double tens. How
Lewis HAMILTON: much was that by?
Engineer: 44 one thousandths.
Engineer: Yep, confirm P2, and Kimi P3, Hamilton P1. Bravo Sebastian, sei stato un grande. You were a lion.
Sebastian VETTEL: Grazie ragazzi.
Engineer: Sei
Sebastian VETTEL: stato un grande. Dispiace per la polo. Dispiace. Di
Engineer: preoccupare col
Sebastian VETTEL: dolore che avevi, sei stato un grande.
Engineer: Well done Kimi, well done Front wheel into the 6-state And stay negative Take negative Good luck Kimi, good luck
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