German Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio
20 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the German Grand Prix 2018, across 9 drivers. Pierre GASLY 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
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Sauber · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, Max, so for info, wind direction as discussed, but the strength is very low. So light wind throughout the level.
Engineer: I have a lot
Pierre GASLY: of bullying I'm breaking.
Engineer: Keep working on them.
Pierre GASLY: The steering is bent and I have a lot of tooling.
Engineer: OK, Pierre, we'll check afterwards. Keep working on brakes. Keep working on brakes.
Engineer: So just remember, you've got the left-hand magic for turn six. Let us know if you want any other electronic adjusts. Just try and cool those tyres down.
Engineer: Ok, we will box this lap, box this lap, we lost bodywork.
Engineer: OK, we will box this lap, box this lap, we lost bodywork.
Pierre GASLY: Okay, charge. The car feels really strange. It's pulling massively, brakes, and also in the straight I have vibrations on the front. Traction is really bad and I have massive understeer mid-corner, so I don't know if there's anything wrong, but I feel like it.
Engineer: Okay, let's try one more lap and then we decide.
Pierre GASLY: The front left is getting cooked, though. Getting a very hard time.
Engineer: Copy that. Aero P450.
Engineer: The front left is getting cooked, getting a very hard time. Copy that. Aero P4, 5th gear cruise, exit turn 6 please.
Engineer: The balance is really bad, it's really really bad, so I'm going to have to do something. Copy, do you want to do one more lap?
Pierre GASLY: No.
Engineer: OK, that's good now. So on your tires, you're plus 15, plus 15, so you can slow down quite a lot. OK, you can slow down much more. You're still plus 12.
Engineer: Still fine, time breaking for turn six.
Engineer: okay copy you can see the issues with the deployment yeah okay yeah they're looking into that okay so we'll focus this app to try and get the vips especially now not keep you updated on traffic so boxing this lap for a live winch change so go to neutral change your way
Engineer: Okay, Van Daan is on softer tyres, so he may be going a bit quicker than you. You can't let him past if he wishes. Nobody else on track.
Engineer: So there'll be two changes, there'll be strats 12 and also HPP 7
Valtteri BOTTAS: set
Engineer: to position 2.
Engineer: Just stay off the exit kerb at turn 1 please, Max.
Engineer: Just stay off the exit kerb at turn one, please, Max.
Engineer: So front left tyre temperature on the limit
Engineer: And 13. Okay, now we want to start off with a liftoff, 40 metres into 2, 6, 8, and 13.
Engineer: Mode 12, torque 7, mode 12, torque 7, 2 times tire warming, target same as before.
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