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Mexican Grand Prix2018 · Practice 3 team radio

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10:01 to 11:01
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25 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Mexican Grand Prix 2018, across 11 drivers. Fernando ALONSO 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.

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  1. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso10:01:320:20

    Pierre GASLYOK, it's like only wet patches, but the track is quite a lot of dry patches, so it's

    Engineertoo

    Pierre GASLYdry for Inter.

    EngineerMode 6, mode 6, copy, Pierre, too dry for Inter, you happy to box?

    Pierre GASLYYeah, yeah, yeah, box.

    EngineerOK, box, box.

  2. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren10:03:390:03

    EngineerThe pit lane looks like it's the wettest part.

  3. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso10:03:580:24

    Pierre GASLYThe track is pretty

    Engineersh**

    Pierre GASLYbecause quite a lot of dry patches, but at the same time some corners are still pretty wet, especially all the inside lines, apexes of the corners. But yeah, I think it should be drying pretty quickly.

  4. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren10:04:350:05

    Engineerand be careful in the pit lane it is very slippy

  5. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren10:29:460:07

    EngineerOK Fernando, I would like to use Scenario 7 for one lap please, so we'll go to Scenario 7 now.

  6. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren10:30:310:07

    EngineerAnd are you happy with the conditions to do this run?

    Fernando ALONSOYes.

  7. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso10:32:130:06

    EngineerAlonso coming behind, he is doing a 1.21

  8. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren10:33:270:07

    EngineerI know you don't hear this very often, so we are P1, purple in every sector.

  9. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso10:36:440:15

    EngineerRight toggle to help front locking, right toggle to help front locking.

    Pierre GASLYI will make it worse with the truck.

    EngineerAnd you can use left toggle for support if you need.

  10. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren10:38:470:04

    EngineerThat's P1 stuff, well done.

  11. Lance STROLLWilliams10:43:390:05

    Lance STROLLI don't think my tyres were ready. Had a very bad out lap.

  12. Sergey SIROTKINWilliams10:44:010:06

    Sergey SIROTKINLet's put the one turn of our wing for the next one.

    EngineerOkay, copy that Sergei.

  13. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes10:45:170:07

    Valtteri BOTTASHydraulic fiddler.

    EngineerOK.

  14. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull10:47:440:09

    EngineerOK, virtual safety car, virtual safety car, slow down, slow down. Might be there for a while, so I suggest we box this lap, box this lap.

    Daniel RICCIARDOYep, box.

  15. Romain GROSJEANHaas10:48:180:13

    EngineerThe refishing time under the VSC is very slow. As far as we know it's working okay. Yeah, I had to stop in turn 5 to get it positive, a real stop. Yes.

  16. Romain GROSJEANHaas10:49:020:10

    EngineerBasically it feels like the front is jumping around into a 1-2-3 and making the rear oscillating as well.

  17. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren10:49:160:08

    EngineerOK Fernando, continue to drive to the Delta, still virtual safety car, we are hoping that it will be cleared by the time we get round but I can't promise.

  18. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren10:49:340:09

    EngineerAnd virtual safety car is ending, virtual safety car is ending. And concentrate on warming the front tyres.

  19. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso10:52:360:14

    EngineerBrendan, you can come in for a garage pit stop and do push-cool-push. Do you want to go again on new tyres, or do you want one more push on this set? Yeah, let's do new tyres, I think we'll get a better feeling for the balance. Copy, quick in-lap, push in the in-lap, box-box.

  20. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren10:53:310:09

    EngineerSo stop it's just turn 12 is the only place we lose out. I think you know what happened there.

    Stoffel VANDOORNEYeah, I went too deep

  21. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes10:55:420:10

    EngineerSo you're currently P2, but it's got Leclerc P1 six tenths ahead. Majority of the time it is in sector 3.

  22. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull10:57:320:05

    Daniel RICCIARDOThe charge isn't going up at all. Understood, we'll sort it out.

  23. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull10:59:030:16

    Max VERSTAPPENIt felt like the front tires were not ready.

    EngineerUnderstood, what about turn 13?

    Max VERSTAPPENTurn 13? What is it?

    EngineerThe tight left hand hairpin.

    Max VERSTAPPENYeah, again my battery is not charging.

  24. Romain GROSJEANHaas11:00:190:04

    Romain GROSJEANThe yellow thing is f***ing dangerous

  25. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso11:01:540:09

    Pierre GASLYFeels good to have good lap, clean lap. Balance is so much better now.

    EngineerOk, Pierre.