Chinese Grand Prix 2018: Qualifying team radio
28 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix 2018, across 13 drivers. 27 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 4 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Wind direction, same as P3 confirmed
Lewis HAMILTON: With the same at
Engineer: the moment? Yes
Engineer: Charles did 35.2, so basically up to turn 10 you are quicker and then we lost out of 10, 13 and the last corner.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Bottas just completely got in my way.
Engineer: Just
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: didn't move out in the last round. Okay.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Okay, I got some rain on
Engineer: the foot.
Pierre GASLY: I don't know why when I press first gear it doesn't work, I need to press three times
Engineer: OK Charlie, can you continue?
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I can. Copy.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, copy. I didn't
Engineer: activate
Brendon HARTLEY: the DRS. I did it very late because of the speaker.
Engineer: Right then, you're going to get one lap, one time lap.
Engineer: Okay Daniel, all done, mission accomplished.
Engineer: OK, we finished P20 and Charles P19 So Charles did 34.4, so we were faster until the last two corners I
Marcus ERICSSON: locked up in the hairpin, sorry for that Yeah, alright
Charles LECLERC: I locked up in second to last corner, apart from that was not so bad, but I lost so much time in last corner, anyway Q2 would not have been possible no, we are very far from Q2, yeah
Engineer: about 4 tenths, 4 tenths, ok,
Charles LECLERC: well, I don't know how much my error cost to be honest, but, ah, the rest of the lap I think was positive, I'm getting there but, yeah, just sorry for these two errors, I'm not sure at Q2 would have been possible, but, yeah.
Engineer: So keep pushing because we're going to go for lap three keep the temps up
Romain GROSJEAN: Ok, box.
Engineer: Understood, box now.
Engineer: Try not to give Hamilton a toe, he's approaching now before 11, don't give him a toe, get out of his way nice and early.
Lewis HAMILTON: Tell me about the sectors.
Engineer: OK Lewis, so to Reichen two and a half tenths in sectors one and three, and then a tenth in sector two. To Maltry, just over a tenth in sectors one and two, and a couple of hundredths in sector three.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm the only one that has to go again.
Engineer: Negative, I think Matthew's going again, circuit is all clear, all clear.
Engineer: Okay Stoff, so Hamilton is the car in front. Fernando the car directly behind. Fernando currently five seconds behind. We need a bit more pace Stoff, a bit more pace on this out lap. Let's have a bigger gap.
Engineer: Plenty of space, just go for it. Don't slow down.
Brendon HARTLEY: Reasonably clean lap guys, couldn't do too much more.
Engineer: Copy, that's P15 Brendan, P15.
Brendon HARTLEY: Copy.
Engineer: And we are p13 p13, okay,
Fernando ALONSO: it's good I think
Romain GROSJEAN: Where are we?
Engineer: P6, you're P6. Yes, baby, yes! Very nice, very nice. Okay, so P6. Okay, let's do that again. A bit more, because you've got Hülkenberg ahead in P5.
Nico HULKENBERG: Just lacking a little bit of depth, a little toe down to turn 14.
Engineer: Copy that Nico.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Romain GROSJEAN: Ah, that didn't go well, did it?
Engineer: OK, everyone's finished, we have P10, signs P9, 32, 8, Perez, 32, 7, Hulk, 32, 5.
Romain GROSJEAN: OK, um, yeah, just need to understand a little bit under grip what happened.
Engineer: Yep, understood.
Engineer: OK, check it out, it's P8, confirmed P8, well done.
Sergio PEREZ: Ohohoho, that was magic man!
Engineer: God dammit, did you see what we were doing on the backstreet there? You are confirmed P7 though, so great job, great job mate. Thank you mate.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I went on the Astro, Exeter 9.
Engineer: Understood.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Appreciate you guys getting me out. Thank you.
Engineer: Understood. Yeah, it was a good job that way.
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