Hungarian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 2 team radio
39 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2018, across 15 drivers. Brendon HARTLEY had the most, with 6.
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 · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: OK, I have something wrong with the cargo steps. Now I have an issue with the numbers on the dash. OK, copy that, we are checking, everything is OK on our side. Front right says 100. OK, ignore front right, ignore front right, no problem, we are happy. Sensor issue.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yes, there are a lot of understood mid-corner.
Engineer: Ok, understood, understood.
Engineer: What's the main limitation, Pierre?
Pierre GASLY: Just a whole group with the tires, with the traction and some more shots in the low speed.
Engineer: Stoffel, recharge button on, recharge button on No deployment Yeah,
Stoffel VANDOORNE: I know
Fernando ALONSO: I have no power, tell me, you need some change.
Engineer: Scenario 1 please, Scenario 1. OK Fernando, we are investigating, it will be Scenario 1, Scenario 1 and we will box this lap.
Engineer: OK, how was the balance on that lap?
Carlos SAINZ: Pretty good, yeah, tiny bit overbalanced, but good. This tyre feels a lot stiffer in combined, and it gives me a better feeling in combined capability.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Brendon HARTLEY: Ah, come on! Yep, I've also got underway.
Engineer: It
Brendon HARTLEY: was quite a lot up.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yep, Reyes on the way, another cooldown.
Engineer: Offset plus two, sorry for that, he didn't see you apparently. Offset plus two.
Brendon HARTLEY: I mean, he was in the middle of the high speed corner.
Engineer: Yes, copy that.
Brendon HARTLEY: Ah, come on. Ah, traffic again.
Engineer: Yeah, this time was Vendome. Box, box.
Brendon HARTLEY: This time I lost to Reyes last sector as well.
Engineer: Copy that. Anyway, we know we have easy 3-4-10s in the pocket. Was very good until you got the traffic. Was a very good start of lap until the traffic. Good job. Keep the head down and box, box.
Engineer: and we'll do a very slow slow that please very slow so plus 45 plus 45
Max VERSTAPPEN: My battery is not really charging.
Engineer: Let's have charge at 9 and just try to use as much full throttle where possible but priority here is the tyre temperature max.
Engineer: Maximize full throttle, maximize full throttle.
Charles LECLERC: Here we need to choose what we want, or I cool down the tires or I maximize the throttle, but I can't do both.
Engineer: That was a very good lap, we're just having a look at what to do for corner 12
Fernando ALONSO: I don't need a left toggle
Engineer: Massive, massive understeer. I've got some issue on the engine as well. Come on guys, there is a problem.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Look.
Engineer: OK, understood. We are looking into it. We are looking into it. Just look from turn 1 to turn 2. It's very clear, come on. Multifunction AQR 7. Multifunction AQR 7. And then we can keep on going.
Engineer: Mode K2, mode K2, you
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: can see, you can see the data.
Brendon HARTLEY: I think we're a bit conservative on flap.
Engineer: Actually, stability was very good now.
Engineer: Would you like another go Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Well, did anyone improve?
Engineer: Negative No one with any pace I
Max VERSTAPPEN: don't think we should try it
Engineer: OK
Daniel RICCIARDO: I feel like the balance is a bit
Engineer: far out so... Okay, full boxes lap then.
Engineer: OK copy thanks, we'll have a look. Sir Lewis we see thunderstorms developing 5km away but tend to be moving away from us.
Engineer: You
Lewis HAMILTON: can see the thunderstorm, just saw lightning
Engineer: Stoffel, is the car okay?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Yeah, it's okay, but I don't know what happened.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Marcus ERICSSON: Stroll just cut me off completely, I don't think he saw me
Engineer: Ah ok, we saw no replay, alright, keep going
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Honestly, they don't move out of the way, those cars. They're coming out of the pit.
Carlos SAINZ: Through the pille
Engineer: Ok, do stay out Carlos, stay out please
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I agree Looks dark 821
Max VERSTAPPEN: Looks quite dark here. Copy.
Engineer: Okay, six-second gap behind to Perez. Sorry, four-second gap to Perez.
Nico HULKENBERG: And then behind him.
Engineer: Another five seconds behind him.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I just had Michael come back now blocking me
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I'm disturbed all the time, is there not another gap repeating?
Engineer: Not really Max, no you'll have to stick with this for the moment.
Engineer: So just try less lift and coast because it's not overheating.
Engineer: Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Marcus ERICSSON: Switch off.
Engineer: Uh, yes, switch off, switch off.
Engineer: Stoffel you may have seen the rainstorm near the circuit at the moment on the radar that is not coming closer
Engineer: Just hold it there, Max. Perez turn 13 at the moment. There's a good gap to turn 10 from there.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Car's getting hot.
Engineer: OK, start your launch. Perfect.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I had no power because the engine is so hot.
Engineer: oh man
Sebastian VETTEL: this is the worst gap i've been in in a long time to get out of here okay
Engineer: Track temperature has dropped 8 degrees with the cloud coverage.
Brendon HARTLEY: Ok, I don't know what they're f***ing but these McLarens are f***ed.
Engineer: Try to overtake.
Brendon HARTLEY: He's done it again. Yep, he stopped the last second in front of me again mate.
Engineer: Grosjean in front is on soft.
Pierre GASLY: I'm saying it's looping.
Engineer: OK, so the best gaps are ahead, and four more laps to go, four more laps. ****** is
Daniel RICCIARDO: using TRS.
Engineer: Understood. I think in clear air, the pace looks good. If you need it, there is an eight second gap behind to Hülkenberg. I guess it'll use the same technique on this lap. So if you want to use it up, there is eight seconds gap behind.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I'm sending up, thank you.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Another f***er that's using DRS, I just have to pass out of principle.
Engineer: The overtake button is available if you need it.
Engineer: Okay, there weren't a huge number of cars on mediums, but compared to our main competitors, we look pretty competitive there, Nico, so not bad at all.
Engineer: OK, I'm under scale. OK, understood. Yeah, I've got to jump out. OK, so make sure it's P0, I'll see you in a bit.
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