Mexican Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio
36 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Mexican Grand Prix 2018, across 17 drivers. Brendon HARTLEY had the most, with 7.
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 · 7 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 4 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Force India · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And a reminder in the pit lane, slow to 30 kph, then accelerate to pit lane speed limiter, repeat that twice please and then we'll be stopping in front of our garage, stop in front of our garage.
Engineer: Okay, DRS on.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I don't have activation.
Engineer: And no special instructions in the pit lane and this time we'll stop on the marks, please stop on the marks
Engineer: OK Pierre, anti-stall test in first gear, approaching the box.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Okay, let's put both front tires back on.
Engineer: Okay.
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, Thais are suffering, just very superficial.
Engineer: I think it's a waste of running like this.
Brendon HARTLEY: Check the car, I'm pulling on the brake into turn 12, and then a lot of front locking last corner, something feels strange.
Engineer: The brakes are cold, we'll look at it, but the brakes are cold.
Engineer: How is the balance Nicholas? It's
Nicholas LATIFI: difficult to really comment on it. The track is just really dirty. So it's just really a lot of four-wheel sliding
Engineer: And some feedback, you just braked a little bit late for turn 12
Lance STROLL: Yeah
Sergio PEREZ: I lost a bit the front tires
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, the eyes are finished. I don't know, maybe we need to go download something like that.
Romain GROSJEAN: Have the switches changed anything at the braking? I don't think the switches have changed anything, it's just the fronts aren't very good. No, no, no. I really don't know what to do.
Engineer: I
Romain GROSJEAN: understand what you're saying, but definitely in sector 3 the rear on that lap was a nightmare. Yes, okay.
Brendon HARTLEY: Brutal traffic. The Williams right in the middle of
Engineer: the
Brendon HARTLEY: road. Keep pushing, we have no more time. Yeah, he almost ran me off the road, mate. Can you send a message about the Williams, mate? That was a joke.
Max VERSTAPPEN: They blocked me in the last sector, so yeah
Engineer: We need a bit more work on the front brakes, they are a bit cold at the moment.
Engineer: and a lot of dips of power in that run do
Lewis HAMILTON: you see the drop of power there
Engineer: uh afirm we believe we can see it and we'll let you know what it's all about
Brendon HARTLEY: OK, he's just blocked me, almost taken me off the track. F***ing bunch of avatars. Yeah, he's
Engineer: a
Brendon HARTLEY: w****. Yeah, copy, I'll call down. Yeah, the stupid Nazi's an idiot.
Engineer: Copy that.
Lewis HAMILTON: How is that sector-wise?
Engineer: So compared to Valtteri, you're still just over a tenth faster than him, and a tenth in the middle sector, tenth in the final sector. I
Lewis HAMILTON: seem to get a drop in power.
Engineer: OK, copy Lewis, it's understood. Not a reliability concern, we'll have a chat about it when you get back.
Engineer: Just try and cool those tires as much as you can, there is a raging hog.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The brakes are pulling a bit in the front
Engineer: Okay, temperatures are reasonably square just have a positive braking event into turn 12
Lewis HAMILTON: Any way to stop the drop of power?
Engineer: Negative loose, we'll need to do that in the garage.
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, fronts are flat spotted, had a sudden lock, braking for one.
Engineer: The rear lock is a bit too high now in the last sector, consider offset 2.0 for the next lap.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, come for that, good idea.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yep, Tyre
Engineer: is
Brendon HARTLEY: still like bubblegum
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: That's how I set you back up.
Engineer: Yeah, the tyres are falling to pieces guys.
Romain GROSJEAN: But it's like I'm on the wet
Romain GROSJEAN: Yeah, I'm trying to stay on track here, and it's not as easy as it could be
Engineer: Okay, you can box now box if it's take five I don't know if I can clear it. I'm trying but I don't I don't think there's any energy in the circuit to clear it So yeah, I don't think it'll clear
Romain GROSJEAN: Very, very, very, very, very understeering.
Engineer: Yeah,
Lance STROLL: the rear is, like, completely cut.
Engineer: Ah, see, if we keep pace at 20, low 23, it's OK.
Lance STROLL: Ah, it's finally gonna get worse.
Nico HULKENBERG: Say the dots
Engineer: Understood Niko, everyone's in the same boat by the look of it
Engineer: Pushing the pit entry?
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah mate, but these tyres are not pushing
Max VERSTAPPEN: I went wide, so I had to take the exit road.
Engineer: Okay.
Engineer: Ok Carlos, we have to box the slab please, recharge on and box the slab.
Carlos SAINZ: Why?
Engineer: We have an issue. One minute. Ok, copy that.
Nico HULKENBERG: Copy
Engineer: that Nico, in that case we should box.
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