Italian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
24 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Italian Grand Prix 2018, across 13 drivers. 23 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Brendon HARTLEY had the most, with 4.
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 · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Remember tyres will be on the cold side and we have new brakes on the car.
Engineer: The
Pierre GASLY: track is still pretty greasy with a couple of corners with the tree.
Engineer: And Fernando, just be careful with the wet patch into Turn 1, yourself and other drivers have had the same problem.
Engineer: I
Stoffel VANDOORNE: have a lot of vibration.
Engineer: Happy to continue. OK, Stoff, recharge on. This level of vibration is safe for us. Do you want another lap?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: I mean, it's quite severe on my side. I mean, it's quite severe on my side.
Engineer: If you want one more lap so you can learn, then we can do one more. Otherwise we box this lap.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: I think we box. We let the track get in better condition.
Engineer: Copy. So box this lap.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: The tire is...
Engineer: destroyed.
Engineer: Are the front tyres okay? They're okay, front and the left.
Engineer: I don't want to be using up the new tyre, so we'll use the new tyre now. That
Lewis HAMILTON: was a bad idea, a bad idea.
Engineer: Daniel, what I would say is the very left-hand side of the track going into Turn 1 near the white line That's where people are struggling with locking So maybe give a little bit margin on the first lap to the side of the track breaking into Turn 1
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, I have quite a bit of vibration, so not great, especially for sector 2 and 3.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: I
Pierre GASLY: have the water, I can lick down my shoulders
Engineer: Copy
Fernando ALONSO: Give me a better gap. I have four cars in front, plus Verstappen coming. It's impossible.
Engineer: Yeah, mate, it's very difficult at the moment. Verstappen six seconds behind you, then behind him six seconds is Stroll.
Fernando ALONSO: Impossible in this low land, impossible!
Engineer: Okay, they've got Gassi behind who's two seconds.
Engineer: Do you want one more time?
Brendon HARTLEY: Yes, copy.
Engineer: We need more energy in the brakes, we need more energy in the brakes to avoid the offset on the temperatures.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: So tell me if I'm behind, traffic?
Engineer: All on autopilot, all on autopilot. Okay.
Engineer: DRS, stack over Copy that Nico, box to SLAP, box to SLAP
Engineer: And box Sebastian, box. Ok copy, lost it a little bit in the last corner, I
Sebastian VETTEL: think some time there, I went too wide.
Fernando ALONSO: Check entry of 4, entry of 8, if we have any problems there. Will do.
Engineer: We're just checking those corners now.
Romain GROSJEAN: Oh man, what's the Tosa doing?
Engineer: Yeah, I don't know. He obviously backed out on his push lap, so watch for Bottas behind Pusin.
Engineer: I made a mess. I think I'm back at all keep pushing keep pushing. We are faced with all the cars We need to stay faced with all these cars. You can let go jump by if you want, but we have to do a cool down
Engineer: Ok, so we'll box now, box.
Romain GROSJEAN: Seriously? Wait, I got one lap.
Engineer: Yeah, we can't afford the mileage, we've already done an extra lap.
Sergio PEREZ: It's all okay with the front of the car, I feel a little bit more understeer than before.
Engineer: Checo, diff open is latched, diff open is latched. We see there is physically some damage to strakes, there is some damage to strakes.
Engineer: If you want to practice the pit lane entry then it's strat 9 out of turn 11, just caution, the pit lane is slippery.
Engineer: Tiny bit long and to the left there, your stop position, Carlos. Yeah, I was a bit confused, the DNC and mechanics. Yeah, it was a bit of a late call from here, sorry.
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