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French Grand Prix2018 · Practice 3 team radio
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21 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the French Grand Prix 2018, across 11 drivers. Brendon HARTLEY had the most, with 3.
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.
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- Practice 139 messages
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- Qualifying37 messages
- Race48 messages
The session, message by message
EngineerSir, expecting some rain in five minutes.
Daniel RICCIARDOYeah, a couple of drops on the visor around turn four, but on track it feels okay.
EngineerOkay, understood.
EngineerTurn 5, here it's already raining, turn
Sebastian VETTEL5 there's drizzle.
EngineerYeah, it's very close to being a you can see it. Yeah, we've got some stewards running down street on four
Daniel RICCIARDOThe last sector was okay. First sector's a bit of a waste.
EngineerYep, okay.
Max VERSTAPPENYeah, it's raining way too much now, yeah
EngineerIt could be wet 5 and 6, the wind is the same as yesterday. It's wet guys, it's wet.
EngineerThe
Lewis HAMILTONracetrack is dry, so we'll just stay out for a bit.
Sergio PEREZI think sector one is quite wet.
Lewis HAMILTONYeah, that's ready boy.
EngineerTurn one and two as well. Now reporting rain. Yeah, now it's quite, now it's over I think. Be careful, heavy rain, heavy rain.
Max VERSTAPPENYeah, it's it's coming more and more over the track
EngineerUnderstood
EngineerLet's be cautious on this first lap, have a look around the track for standing water.
EngineerAnd rain light please. Where's the rain light? Where's the rain light? So tyre switch to wet, tyre switch to wet. And the laps will be go race for info, it'll be go race not go deploy. OK. So last just for info, I think there's a reason we're out of aquaplaning for Alonso on the straight, OK. TRS is enabled, I don't know why. Yeah, we don't want to use it, do not use it.
EngineerLet's just get a feel for it, don't need to take any risks.
EngineerOkay Sergei, give us some updates on the conditions, if you're happy to continue, we can do three more laps.
Sergey SIROTKINYeah, just move the brake bias rearwards and draft some tricky spots, but in other places it's okay.
EngineerWe're happy to continue, just low risk, low risk.
EngineerOK, lads, I think we'll box this lap. Box confirmed, box box. Yeah? Why? Lads, it's Rob. I'm not really happy to continue in these conditions. I think we've learnt enough. It's fine. You can box now, please.
Lance STROLLOK.
EngineerI mean, I
Lance STROLLfeel it's OK, but...
EngineerYeah, no problem. You've learnt enough. That's fine. Thank you.
Lance STROLLOK, box.
EngineerSo Char, we can do one time lap, but no risk, one time lap.
EngineerRemember, big reverse before turn 8.
Brendon HARTLEYYeah, copy, I'm taking it easy.
Charles LECLERCTo be honest, the conditions are not that dangerous. Ok, there is a little bit of aquaplaning, but there is not even that much.
EngineerOk, copy that.
EngineerOK, Brennan, thank you for this data. I'm sure it will be useful for the future.