Canadian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
23 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Canadian Grand Prix 2018, across 13 drivers. Daniel RICCIARDO 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
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, so think is one of two
Engineer: Track is clear, track is clear. So it'll be reverse on and pedal 1 please, pedal 1 and display 9 when you can
Engineer: Stoffel, last lap was a decent start. You're a bit late on power in turn eight and nine and also in the final chicane
Engineer: Would you like another lap?
Fernando ALONSO: I think not. Box now.
Engineer: You may have slow shift. Losing sync. Yeah, understood. Yeah. Fail one, fail again. The issue that you've got is going to remain.
Engineer: Vettel quick it's the moment 12.2 on hypers so Vettel 12.2 Raikkonen 12.3 we're next on 12.9 obviously on ultras
Engineer: Is
Lewis HAMILTON: everyone else on Ultras?
Engineer: So you've got Bethel and Reichen at P1 and P2, they are on the Hyper. You are the first Ultra.
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: didn't see, I didn't see Harley there, didn't see him coming
Brendon HARTLEY: And I don't know what Hamilton did, whatever it was in front of me just stopped it at the last corner.
Engineer: Okay, it's 13, there is quite a strong tailwind, tailwind there.
Romain GROSJEAN: Got blocked by a TOW, I'll search the airplane. Yep, got it. Don't
Engineer: know
Romain GROSJEAN: why he didn't let me by before.
Romain GROSJEAN: What the f-
Engineer: Mate, why is it not f***ing moving out of the way when we come? I don't know, I don't know. It's just, uh, it's rubbish. Okay. It's two
Romain GROSJEAN: laps in a row, come on!
Engineer: We reported it, so let's just get back into it.
Engineer: Are we boxing then, or we go for one more? Let's try one more, so let's go for a cool down.
Lance STROLL: Tires are gone, good to be here.
Engineer: Alright, copy that.
Sebastian VETTEL: You said you wanted this one to be a bit faster, right? A bit faster than before, yes, please.
Sebastian VETTEL: I'm so happy to call it there.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: Can
Daniel RICCIARDO: I have another pair of gloves please?
Engineer: info Hamilton is not improving on his second push lap attempt gap behind four seconds Hamilton and closing he was good to us so return the favor
Engineer: So you need a big cool down, rear pressure's too high, rear pressure's too high.
Engineer: OK, I've got a very strange behaviour, engine behaviour. OK, we check it now. Slow the car please, slow the car. Box. Box. Box now please, box now.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I'm in the worst possible place to look out on Ericsson in front. Build up.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Lance STROLL: I can't get the car turned. Turn 2, that's my problem.
Lance STROLL: I can go a lot quicker now with this mid-diff mid-change. Can I do one more push?
Engineer: Negative. Alright,
Lance STROLL: nice.
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