Mexican Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
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, and the original audio is playable in the archive.
Who was on the radio
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 6 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 5 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 3 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 1 message
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Pierre GASLY: OK, it's like only wet patches, but the track is quite a lot of dry patches, so it's
Engineer: too
Pierre GASLY: dry for Inter.
Engineer: Mode 6, mode 6, copy, Pierre, too dry for Inter, you happy to box?
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, yeah, yeah, box.
Engineer: OK, box, box.
Engineer: The pit lane looks like it's the wettest part.
Pierre GASLY: The track is pretty
Engineer: sh**
Pierre GASLY: because 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.
Engineer: and be careful in the pit lane it is very slippy
Engineer: OK Fernando, I would like to use Scenario 7 for one lap please, so we'll go to Scenario 7 now.
Engineer: And are you happy with the conditions to do this run?
Fernando ALONSO: Yes.
Engineer: Alonso coming behind, he is doing a 1.21
Engineer: I know you don't hear this very often, so we are P1, purple in every sector.
Engineer: Right toggle to help front locking, right toggle to help front locking.
Pierre GASLY: I will make it worse with the truck.
Engineer: And you can use left toggle for support if you need.
Engineer: That's P1 stuff, well done.
Lance STROLL: I don't think my tyres were ready. Had a very bad out lap.
Sergey SIROTKIN: Let's put the one turn of our wing for the next one.
Engineer: Okay, copy that Sergei.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Hydraulic fiddler.
Engineer: OK.
Engineer: OK, 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 RICCIARDO: Yep, box.
Engineer: The 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.
Engineer: Basically it feels like the front is jumping around into a 1-2-3 and making the rear oscillating as well.
Engineer: OK 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.
Engineer: And virtual safety car is ending, virtual safety car is ending. And concentrate on warming the front tyres.
Engineer: Brendan, 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.
Engineer: So stop it's just turn 12 is the only place we lose out. I think you know what happened there.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Yeah, I went too deep
Engineer: So you're currently P2, but it's got Leclerc P1 six tenths ahead. Majority of the time it is in sector 3.
Daniel RICCIARDO: The charge isn't going up at all. Understood, we'll sort it out.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It felt like the front tires were not ready.
Engineer: Understood, what about turn 13?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Turn 13? What is it?
Engineer: The tight left hand hairpin.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, again my battery is not charging.
Romain GROSJEAN: The yellow thing is f***ing dangerous
Pierre GASLY: Feels good to have good lap, clean lap. Balance is so much better now.
Engineer: Ok, Pierre.
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