French Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio

Every message, in the order it happened

1. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull12:02:10

   Engineer: Once you hit the limiter 250km it will be gear 6, gear 6 when you're in the limiter.

2. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes12:05:26

   Engineer: Just remember to not slide the tires too much.

3. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes12:06:46

   Engineer: You can use DRS we just need three consistent laps

4. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes12:11:28

   Lewis HAMILTON: Riz is struggling.

5. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso12:14:37

   Brendon HARTLEY: OK, that's not the car.

   Engineer: Keep us posted on the vibrations.

   Brendon HARTLEY: Doesn't feel too bad, doesn't feel too bad.

   Engineer: Copy that, big lap.

   Brendon HARTLEY: Big oversteer. I'm

   Engineer: going

   Brendon HARTLEY: to go up on this straight, it was a bit surprising how I lost the car.

   Engineer: Copy that.

6. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull12:15:31

   Engineer: Initial thoughts on balance max, do we need to prep any major changes?

   Max VERSTAPPEN: No, nothing major.

7. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso12:16:03

   Brendon HARTLEY: Lack of power on the part tunnel.

8. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso12:17:52

   Brendon HARTLEY: I feel very low employment

   Engineer: Copy that, we have some issues, mode 2, mode 2

9. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso12:19:03

   Brendon HARTLEY: But yeah, I seem to have very low deployment.

   Engineer: Yes, agreed, we have a problem, we have a problem, we are looking into it, mode 2 should be better.

10. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull12:20:38

    Engineer: Tenth off in the first sector and then quickest in sectors two and three at the moment, okay

11. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso12:22:07

    Engineer: Box, Brendan, box. We need to fix the problem with energy management. Box, box.

    Brendon HARTLEY: Coming up, coming up.

12. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas12:22:27

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: The SOC is pretty strange, like the Cape of Deployment is strange.

    Engineer: Ok, we are on the lower side of the map, so we try to build up a bit of SOC.

13. Romain GROSJEANHaas12:24:41

    Engineer: I've got the feeling the MGP is doing some strange stuff at Mitrota. OK box now Roman, box now, we have an issue, you have Raikkonen 2 behind, please box now.

14. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren12:25:38

    Engineer: Stoffel, is the car okay?

    Stoffel VANDOORNE: Yeah, all okay.

15. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas12:26:35

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I'm not getting any deployment at throttle application, so I push the throttle and then the K

    Engineer: comes in after. Okay, understood, understood, understood. Okay, I come back to you.

16. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari12:30:10

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, I don't know what the Williams is, but completely almost crashing.

17. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes12:32:07

    Lewis HAMILTON: Some of the drivers just drive it dangerously slow.

18. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren12:32:33

    Stoffel VANDOORNE: Yeah, you didn't update me on the traffic. I didn't see the car behind

19. Lance STROLLWilliams12:32:53

    Engineer: Lans, turn 4 can be in 4th, and turn 5 in 3rd.

    Lance STROLL: I'm doing that at the moment. Ah, sorry, ok, now I know where you've been.

20. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren12:34:24

    Engineer: and Fernando just as a reminder a lot of cars are spinning in turn six because of the wind direction change through that corner there.

    Fernando ALONSO: Okay

21. Sergey SIROTKINWilliams12:35:28

    Engineer: From your side, is there a value in doing one more lap?

    Sergey SIROTKIN: I mean, there's always value because it's a new track, but I'm not sure it can be quicker.

22. Sebastian VETTELFerrari12:36:24

    Sebastian VETTEL: Steering seems to get worse, and also for the carry-lease there seems to be a delay. Check for example last corner.

23. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso12:43:17

    Engineer: Radio check, radio check, Bjerre. Radio OK. OK, we lost connection to the car, so we were not able to tell you to box. We need to box now.

    Pierre GASLY: OK.

24. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren12:50:09

    Engineer: And Stoffel, check DRS on this straight, check the DRS, should now latch

    Stoffel VANDOORNE: Yeah, it's OK

25. Carlos SAINZRenault12:56:20

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, a bit of a scrub fill up, gonna do a fill up, just for your info, the front tires were not ready for that, turn 1. OK, understood.

26. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes12:57:55

    Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, the car won't turn, but I need the box.

    Engineer: OK, copy. And we're ready for you in the box, just let us know how much flap you need.

    Lewis HAMILTON: Whatever you took out.

27. Esteban OCONForce India13:00:58

    Esteban OCON: Yeah, I

    Engineer: see

    Esteban OCON: Rodkin is always in the way.

    Engineer: Go to end cool, go to end cool.

    Esteban OCON: I can't get the... ah, there we go. Yeah, I fast-ported the tires.

28. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull13:03:44

    Engineer: I

    Max VERSTAPPEN: have massive understeer.

    Engineer: OK, we can box Max, we'll box.

29. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes13:04:45

    Engineer: So that's a P1 at the moment, three tenths to Valtry P2. You are up sector one, just a hundredth in the middle, up tenth and a half, down two tenths, final sector.

    Lewis HAMILTON: Which is where?

    Engineer: A tenth in turn 13, half a tenth in the last two corners.

30. Charles LECLERCSauber13:07:31

    Charles LECLERC: All ok Charlie? Yeah But the car is behaving very weirdly on curves And in braking Manual Look if there are no damages

31. Charles LECLERCSauber13:08:53

    Engineer: So you were braking on a curb that was causing the instability.

32. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso13:10:36

    Engineer: What's the main limitation with the change we made?

    Brendon HARTLEY: Actually, I think the change was in the good direction. Maybe keep thinking.

33. Sebastian VETTELFerrari13:15:27

    Engineer: People are still improving lap-by-lap on quality tires.

34. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari13:18:16

    Engineer: I

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: am too much from plane Understood

35. Carlos SAINZRenault13:19:59

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, it feels like we've added 1.5% of our balance.

    Engineer: OK, understood.

36. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull13:21:00

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Very low grip.

    Engineer: Tires were on the cool side to start the landmatch.

37. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes13:26:54

    Engineer: And we'll go straight to Strap Mode 10, Strap Mode 10, and this is a different Strap Mode 10 to the previous run.

38. Marcus ERICSSONSauber13:29:33

    Engineer: Ah, it's over, sorry. Okay, you crashed or...? Yeah. Alright. And remember the switch off procedure, switch off procedure. Get out of here, get out of here, quick! Out of the car, quick! Press the fire extinguisher if you can.

39. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas13:30:12

    Engineer: It's on fire, yeah, red flag, red flag, red flag, red flag, there is a car on fire.