Canadian Grand Prix 2018: Qualifying team radio
23 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Canadian Grand Prix 2018, across 14 drivers. Brendon HARTLEY had the most, with 4.
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
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 4 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Romain GROSJEAN: Hey guys, is that normal stop
Engineer: the car stop the car stop the car there
Engineer: Okay, just be careful when you get out. That's it.
Engineer: Okay, watch for that. I cannot see where he's going. Yeah, he's on the left-hand side now, so keep going straight.
Engineer: Seems a slow track to start with, around one second slower.
Brendon HARTLEY: Had the yellow at zone 1, there wasn't a very good lap after
Engineer: I'm
Marcus ERICSSON: in the wall
Engineer: Sorry, what happened? I'm in the wall My car is broken Was it the first time?
Marcus ERICSSON: No, no
Engineer: Ok, have I boxed? Yeah
Marcus ERICSSON: Sorry
Pierre GASLY: What is the plan?
Engineer: The target is first time lap. First time lap is the target.
Lance STROLL: Got a flat spot, major flat spot.
Engineer: Yep, okay, copy that.
Engineer: We have a slippery track reported exit of turn 10, so you can have a look on the outlap.
Engineer: Rock on one second. That
Nico HULKENBERG: was a great track position man.
Engineer: And then Hartley now two seconds behind.
Engineer: Yeah, turn 10 was very slippery, lost a bit of time there. Yeah, shame about turn 10, was a good lap otherwise, good job.
Nico HULKENBERG: I didn't like that feel of the front at the beginning of the lap.
Engineer: Copy that, Nico.
Sebastian VETTEL: No, I mean, this is ridiculous what these guys are doing. I have to box.
Engineer: I'm
Sebastian VETTEL: coming flat out down the straight and they are doing 80 miles or 80 kilometers an hour on the back straight. Sorry, but I couldn't do it. There's three cars. No chance.
Engineer: Okay, Stoffel, that is P15. P15, you are 9 milliseconds behind Fernando.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Okay, well, I guess we know that considered, I think we more or less made the maximum of what we had today. It's a shame not to be more competitive, but yeah, that's what it is.
Engineer: OK, Fernando, we've finished in P14, P14.
Fernando ALONSO: Ah, driver
Engineer: really doubt of the 10. OK, mate, we'll look at it.
Engineer: And confirmed P13, we are P13, very good, qualifying again, good job.
Charles LECLERC: Ah, good, not bad, yeah, very happy about the lap this time.
Engineer: Is that P12, I'm afraid?
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, it got me. Last corner, fortunately. Lost a couple of tenths. But anyway, good effort, guys. Thank you.
Engineer: Yep, it's confirmed, P11, P11, two 10s from P10. I think it's not a bad place to be to start tomorrow.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, not too unhappy with that mate, no free fish and chips tonight, but at least a free choice of tiles tomorrow.
Engineer: Box, Kevin, box, I saved some money at least.
Engineer: So compared to Valtteri, it's half a tenth in sectors 1 and 2. I know it is, buddy. I know it is.
Nico HULKENBERG: Do you want to put me in a different track position?
Engineer: We'll do what we can Nico.
Engineer: The rear pressures look good on this set, rear pressures look good.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I lost the f***ing laptop already.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yes, yes, pole position Woohoo! I was running a bit out of juice at the end I was running a bit out of juice at the end Thank you all, thank you, thank you It was... Thank you, thank you It was Naldo Decimi, thank you
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