Canadian Grand Prix 2018: Race team radio
64 radio messages were recorded during race at the Canadian Grand Prix 2018, across 16 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 7.
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 · 7 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 7 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 6 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 6 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Valtteri's got a bit of coolant from one of the classic cars in front of his grid box so just if you're straight it'll straddle it but obviously it's just in this center line it's a very thin patch but just be mindful of that step.
Engineer: Okay, Fernando, tyre info. Option starters are Gasly and Hartley. Backup starters are Sorokin. Everybody else starts on Prime.
Engineer: Crossed. Yeah, copy, yeah okay. I think I had a puncture, I think I had a puncture.
Engineer: Are you okay, Brandon? Are you okay?
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, I'm fine.
Engineer: He
Brendon HARTLEY: just ran me out of road.
Engineer: That was well controlled at the start.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, I couldn't squeeze it more. No,
Engineer: that's fine.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Yeah, I ran over a lot of debris. I ran over a lot of debris. I don't know, I can't feel anything. Yeah, I think the tyre is flat, the tyre is flat, we need to pit.
Engineer: Copy.
Nico HULKENBERG: obviously don't have to tell you keep a good eye on the pressures it's
Engineer: a lot of debris there
Fernando ALONSO: I will go close to the pit wall now, you have to check the left part of the front wheel. Siroc and Leclerc pushed me on the grass, so just to make sure this front wheel is okay.
Engineer: I
Fernando ALONSO: think we touch wheel to wheel, but just to make sure.
Engineer: Okay Fernando, from what we could see everything looks okay.
Sergio PEREZ: Man, what did Sainz did? She just took me off.
Carlos SAINZ: But it hit me very hard.
Engineer: Ok, do you have any damage?
Carlos SAINZ: No, he just closed on me the door.
Carlos SAINZ: I kept my light on the way.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm
Engineer: having
Lewis HAMILTON: dropouts of power guys
Sergio PEREZ: Science should be black flags, really.
Engineer: Understood, Checo. Yep, copy that. Checo, it is under investigation. It is under investigation.
Sergio PEREZ: What they are investigating? Is it not clear? He's just running to me. I gave him enough space.
Engineer: Understood. Yeah, understood, Checo. We'll come back to you on it. Just focus on the driving.
Engineer: I'm quite a bit faster than him, but
Nico HULKENBERG: there's some fast on the straight
Nico HULKENBERG: Really big held up here.
Engineer: Copy that, Nico. Suggest SOC 8 for faster recharge and use of overtake.
Engineer: Okay, we need to push Nico, we need to push.
Engineer: Bottas tires on the limit of overheating as well, so they're not holiday either
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, looks like Lewis is struggling a bit
Engineer: OK understood, if he's vulnerable let's get him
Engineer: Ok mate, you are ahead of Hamilton
Daniel RICCIARDO: Come on boys, watch good stuff
Engineer: We are on plan B. We are on plan B.
Engineer: So keep pushing Charles, keep pushing. And we box this lap, box, box. Big push.
Engineer: Check out that's good work. We need to make as much progress as quickly as possible. Cars are slipping out of our pit window
Nico HULKENBERG: I think I better get to Georgia now.
Engineer: Just keep pushing, still half a second quicker than the cars that have changed tyres.
Engineer: And we are still faster than cars behind on plane.
Engineer: Still unsafe to Räikkönen, one second.
Lewis HAMILTON: There's nothing I can do about that right now.
Engineer: Traffic ahead, Van Dorm, Ericsson, Sirocchi
Engineer: If Max picks it up a little bit, you need to stick with him, keeping that tote. It will help you defend Hamilton if you've got a nice tote.
Engineer: Why
Lewis HAMILTON: did we pit so early?
Engineer: So let's see how the stop was brought early, see if we could sort this PU problem, it's helped at least a little bit.
Engineer: and Fernando this pace is good you're gaining on the Force Indias and the Renaults in front we are still plan A still plan A
Engineer: And Box, give me Box. We'll be very tight with Hamilton, very tight with Hamilton.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Okay.
Engineer: Okay, this is Strat 5, it's hammer time.
Engineer: So, box, box, box.
Engineer: And box now, box now, Bottas in the pit.
Engineer: I've non-stop losing the sync. Yep, understood man. You're doing good persevering with it. Your pace is still really good.
Engineer: And Kimi, we are not concerned with the brake temperature, so ignore the alarm, ignore the alarm.
Engineer: Stoffel there's going to be a few blue flags over the next laps, there's going to be a few blue flags over the next laps as the lead cars come through. Magnussen will take these as well and he's struggled with blue flags so it could be an opportunity.
Fernando ALONSO: No power, no cares
Engineer: Ok Fernando, we're checking it now, stand by
Fernando ALONSO: It's maybe the turbo
Engineer: Ok Fernando, scenario one please, scenario one, we need to retire but we'll return to the garage, we will return to the garage, sorry mate, gutted
Engineer: Okay Fernando, we will stop on the marks please, stop on the marks, I'm really sorry mate.
Engineer: Still doing excellent, excellent job.
Romain GROSJEAN: Yeah, the shift is yours now?
Engineer: Yeah, a bit, maybe temp related.
Engineer: Okay Stoffel, let's push now. Let's have best pace on this tyre, see what you can do. We're happy to stop again if we need to. I
Stoffel VANDOORNE: feel quite bored. I feel quite bored now.
Engineer: Box now, Ramon, box now. OK. Mate, did you see what Ocon did to me? Yeah, yeah, we'll report it, understood.
Engineer: We've taken half a second out of Bottas this lap in the first two sectors.
Engineer: Georgia we are in the points now, P10 at the moment.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: My deployment is cutting so early!
Engineer: We're looking Stoffel, we're looking. I
Stoffel VANDOORNE: have zero power.
Engineer: Stoffel, it's an energy management problem, use overtake, use overtake.
Engineer: The guy in front a vicious with brakes we are fighting for the point catch him
Engineer: Okay, we think the problem is fixed. We think the problem is fixed. Suggest no overtake. Are you sure it's fixed? No, Stoffel, we're not sure. We're not sure. Go back to using overtake. Go back to using overtake.
Engineer: It's a good pace Max, there are 16 laps to go so keep on it.
Romain GROSJEAN: Why do we get into traffic so much?
Engineer: Stoffel, we think it's working correctly. You should not need overtake now. We think it's working correctly.
Engineer: OK, so Reichenen is still five seconds behind. If you do want to turn the PU down it will be HPP7 to position 8. I'll leave that up to you. That's still live, don't need to try and get it spaced. That's what we like to hear mate, you go for it.
Engineer: Okay Max, as bad as that was, we've not lost too much time to Bottas, gap to him is 4.4, 4.4, 10 laps remaining.
Engineer: Okay, so battery is full. Hamilton is getting DRS now.
Engineer: OK Niko, if possible we'd like to pick up the pace, we're coming under threat from Ocon who's right behind Carlos.
Nico HULKENBERG: Please leave me alone a bit, never mind. Not too much for you.
Engineer: Okay, he took 4 tenths out of Ericsson, he took 4 tenths out of Ericsson, he's going to struggle once he gets blue flags, he's on back up from the safety car, he's on back up from the safety car.
Romain GROSJEAN: Man, there's no stability from the rear, everything OK? The inside wheel is always in the air, the stability is f***ing poor.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: And there's HBP 1, position 1, 1, position 1, that gives you everything on the overtake.
Engineer: And four laps to go, bring it on.
Engineer: OK, you should be cleared, traffic now to the end.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, understood.
Sebastian VETTEL: Tell them not to wave the checkered flag when it's
Engineer: not
Sebastian VETTEL: done yet one
Engineer: lap one lap one more lap
Romain GROSJEAN: I don't know what's going on with the inside, but it's always India. I hope nothing's broken.
Engineer: p1 sebastian p1 grande vittoria bravissimo grande
Sebastian VETTEL: lavoro grande grande grazie mille grazie ragazzi grazie grazie che gara controllato grazie grazie vai
Engineer: sebastian un martello sei stato complimenti grande no
Sebastian VETTEL: no no no grazie a voi niente martello questo solo uno di noi grazie ragazzi e
Engineer: la martellata lei data gli altri comunque vai grande te grandissima ferrari
Sebastian VETTEL: saluti saluti
Engineer: That was nicely done. So, good job Valtteri, good job.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Copy that, we're into a slip quickly enough today.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. That was a very good job in Turn 1-2 on the first lap Valtteri. Really good job there.
Engineer: Ok mate, that's it. Nice job. You did get your last two laps of both the fastest laps of the race. Ok, thanks guys.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Really good effort. Well
Engineer: done Daniel. You made it work on the overcut and good teamwork all round.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, no worries. Thanks guys. Good points.
Engineer: Absolutely.
Daniel RICCIARDO: The in lap was fun.
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