Italian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 2 team radio
22 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Italian Grand Prix 2018, across 12 drivers. 21 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Charles LECLERC 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
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: We need to build up front tire temperature. Rears are okay, just build up front tire temperature.
Engineer: You okay, okay, no idea what happened now. Okay. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm okay
Charles LECLERC: it's raining in the last corner a little bit. Copy,
Engineer: ciao
Engineer: Red flag, red flag, on the CyberZ, a massive shunter, turn one.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: No, there is no problem, there is no problem, the gyarados is staying open. And we box the slab, box the slab.
Charles LECLERC: Copy.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm going a bit everywhere, under braking, pulling a bit to the right, it's not giving you great confidence.
Engineer: So we can either box or try another lap. We are going to go to the super soft next so we'll pick up more grip.
Engineer: In terms of sectors, 1 tenths sector 2, 1 and a half tenths sector 3, so plenty of space behind.
Pierre GASLY: Why am I so slow in this race?
Engineer: We are checking
Charles LECLERC: Problem, again,
Engineer: box, box, box. Copy, chat, box, CISLAB, box, box.
Engineer: So focus on cooling the tyres Max. All corners, well over temperature.
Pierre GASLY: I see something a bit strange on the rear right corner of my car in the mirror, like if something is hanging there or...
Engineer: Ok, so be careful, be careful.
Engineer: OK, copy that, we saw that.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, car should be OK. Check the rear wing end plates. Yeah, checking
Engineer: that. Watch your wheels post roll.
Engineer: So it shows just manually DRS closing, but you can use DRS close manually. So rear wing looking all OK from our side. Mode charge, mode charge.
Engineer: So rear wing looking all OK from our side, mode charge, mode charge.
Charles LECLERC: Can you confirm me that now it's all OK then? Because obviously now I'm taking it still cautious. But now it's OK, everything is OK now for DRS.
Engineer: Yes, confirmed, it's looking all OK DRS.
Pierre GASLY: Ah, the cloud blocked me.
Engineer: Understood.
Sergio PEREZ: Saw one of my players looking
Engineer: Check out they're okay. It's left rear though. Just left rear that we would want to be keeping an eye on
Sebastian VETTEL: Grazie,
Engineer: to get the car ready again.
Engineer: OK, this says box, box, box, box, so we're going to switch to the soft tie.
Engineer: Check the vibration for me. OK, yeah, we'll check vibration and just do a K1 test when you can. We see a lot of vibration, yes.
Carlos SAINZ: I feel a very strange vibration coming from the rear.
Engineer: Fox 10 please, Fox 10.
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