Chinese Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio
26 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Chinese Grand Prix 2018, across 12 drivers. 25 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Brendon HARTLEY 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
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Nico HULKENBERG: I hear you only at the left again.
Engineer: Okay, Nick, you'll have to change your balaclava when you get back.
Engineer: So stay on circuit, stay on circuit, once more round.
Engineer: Turn seven. That's night and day better compared to last week, so loud and clear.
Engineer: Box, box, stuffing in the marks, pull it back into the garage.
Fernando ALONSO: I will do the longest train with no DRS now for you to confirm.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: So I confirm a strong tailwind into turn six minutes.
Engineer: And Stoffel, do you think we should adjust the front wing? Do you think we should adjust the front wing?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Yeah, I think we should. It's impossible out there.
Engineer: Copy. So we'll come in this lap and adjust the front wing. We'll box this lap to adjust the front wing.
Engineer: Okay, so you can continue to push now if you wish. My first lap was quickest.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, I'll do a cool down just for traffic and stuff. Yeah, understood.
Engineer: it's very windy and gusty out there so tricky conditions yeah i can feel it
Sebastian VETTEL: especially breaking for six between two and three breaking for six for eleven and last corner
Engineer: Yeah, a lot of mistakes. It's very tricky with the width, struggling with the width. Copy that.
Sergio PEREZ: It's all okay with the engine. I feel a lot of hesitations on high power.
Engineer: Check it. We'll come back to you on the engine. We'll come back to you on the engine.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Brendon HARTLEY: What do you think I should get the tires down to?
Engineer: Target is plus 5, plus 10. Between plus 5 and plus 10. And we lose too much time on braking on last corner. Very last corner. Braking too early. Big picture is more margin to brake a bit later.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, copy that.
Engineer: Okay, you're currently P4, 35.6, Daniel, 1,000th faster than you.
Esteban OCON: How was the balance? On the steer. In the mid-corner still. A bit less, but still.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Some swamps of rain. Only a few drops.
Engineer: Copy. So we'll stay out while it's okay.
Sebastian VETTEL: There's
Engineer: a
Sebastian VETTEL: little bit of drizzle now.
Engineer: you okay to stay out yeah
Max VERSTAPPEN: it's a little flat spot but yeah i have to i guess
Engineer: max how bad is the flat spot
Max VERSTAPPEN: yeah a little bit but i think i could do a lot understood
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, the car feels more normal now
Engineer: Okay Marcus, so the exit was a bit better where you were losing, but now I think you changed a bit the line around 8, 9 and 10, that was a bit worse this lap, and also now we're losing entry of the last corner.
Engineer: Okay, Stoffel, is the car okay?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Yeah, all okay. I think I need to box to check everything over. I went through the gravel. Copy, copy. Box to slap.
Fernando ALONSO: Are you sure we are with the same engine settings from the first lap?
Engineer: Yes, we believe so, Fernando.
Engineer: Okay, Max, it should be six time-lapse to the checkered flag. Six time-lapse.
Engineer: Check out both you and Esteban lapping around 39.9. Williams compare much slower at the moment.
Engineer: My heart's came out right in front of me. Can you hold that take? Correct.
Engineer: overtake button available try to overtake one more shot
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