Monaco Grand Prix 2018: Practice 2 team radio
38 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Monaco Grand Prix 2018, across 16 drivers. Daniel RICCIARDO 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
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 2 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Magnusson, 10 seconds behind.
Engineer: Magnussen 10 seconds behind I'll let you know what he's up to
Engineer: Check it, keep pushing, keep pushing and we'll give you feedback.
Engineer: How's the tyres feel, Esteban?
Esteban OCON: Feels OK.
Sergio PEREZ: I struggle a bit with the wrist towards the end.
Engineer: Checker, consider torque 9 at the end of the lap.
Engineer: Any balance feedback? Yeah, just a bit too much understeer on the initial laps.
Engineer: How was the balance on that second lap, Esteban?
Esteban OCON: Oversteer. Too much oversteer, too much front end.
Engineer: OK. Less engine braking.
Engineer: I had traffic there in the last laps, so I decided to box. Yeah, no errors. Hamilton in front of you.
Valtteri BOTTAS: No traffic at the end.
Engineer: Yeah, we could see that.
Engineer: no traffic at the end yeah we could see that so i think some of these cars ahead will pit now give me feedback feedback i want your feedback first okay i'll take a slow lap target plus 15 seconds no traffic at the end yeah we could see that so i think some of these cars ahead will pit now high touch punctured there's nothing i can do so
Engineer: And we're happy for you to have one more go, Max, if you want to. Up to you.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Okay, one more go.
Engineer: Yeah, I think it's useful whilst the track is relatively quiet.
Engineer: Okay, red flag, red flag, you need to slow down, slow down. You need to be positive on the dash, please, positive on your dash. Okay, so we are boxing this lap.
Engineer: What is it, sorry? Going to need to do some track repair between turn four and five. Maybe it's a drain.
Engineer: Okay Max, so that is a drain that has caused an issue between turns four and five, so we'll need some repairs for that.
Engineer: I was expecting a 15 minute delay, but we'll be ready to go before that. OK, we can stay put. Yes, sir.
Engineer: 40 seconds to the green 40 seconds Q at the end of the pit lane Q at the end of the pit lane
Engineer: So we actually think the Toro Rossas ahead may do a warm-up lap. The two Toro Rossas ahead may do a warm-up lap.
Engineer: I touched the outside wall, turn 1. Not sure if I have a problem, but I'm putting recharge anyway, traffic ahead. I don't think the front tires were in. Okay, we keep checking the pressure. Which corner, please repeat. Exit turn 1, front left. Copy, front left.
Engineer: Some GPS issues, but I think Sorokin's coming through turn one to start a lap. Yes, Sorokin behind. Not confident on what he's up to, but let him through anyway.
Engineer: Okay, they're all backing up in the front.
Sebastian VETTEL: And Lonzo is so slow.
Engineer: Let me know on Ericsson. On Ericsson, seven behind, pushing. Let me know where he is.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: It's the same f***ing Williams all the time.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think this Smartass Drove into my front wing
Engineer: Why did we stop? We absolutely want to long run this tyre. Nico has managed to flat spot two sets of tyres, so we need to... Yeah, I don't care. It's his problem. ...get the data on. It's for the team, Carlos. I don't care.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, copy. I had traffic, but the tire's gone.
Engineer: Copy that. Box, box. Piton 3 test on box.
Engineer: Stoffel, do you want to try one more lap in that engine mode?
Stoffel VANDOORNE: No, no. No. Terrible.
Engineer: Copy.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, so we open the lap, we'll see how it goes, if there is traffic or mistake, we come in.
Engineer: Quite a lot of understeer first part of the lap. Okay, understood. We'll see if that changes on the next lap.
Engineer: We have got time for one more, if you wish. What do you think? Are the ties still hanging in? It's worth a try. Okay, understood.
Engineer: It's front
Marcus ERICSSON: left, it's not very nice.
Engineer: Copy.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Just remind me I had a poor downshift into the bus stop that lap.
Engineer: Understood, I'll box this lap.
Engineer: getting too close to first up okay clear behind open more open more also to pull down the brakes and one more lap one more lap on this and then we stop push now
Carlos SAINZ: Something smells a bit strange on the car.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We're checking it.
Carlos SAINZ: It's like brakes, I think. They smell a lot.
Engineer: and straight out straight out got
Lewis HAMILTON: some paper on my rear tire i don't know what that is okay copy
Engineer: It
Lewis HAMILTON: just feels unsafe on this tire, man. I'm having oversteers. It's like the wheels are pulling off or something.
Engineer: It's
Lewis HAMILTON: not that, man. It's not the flat. It doesn't feel right with the car.
Engineer: I don't want to
Lewis HAMILTON: continue this balance.
Lance STROLL: My knees are killing me. The leg pattern is just getting crossed.
Engineer: How are the tyres, Daniel? How are the tyres?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Bit of a tag, but nothing big yet.
Engineer: Okay, Niko, probably don't need to remind you, but just take it easy with those front tyres, please.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, slow pace. We should have actually gone late, so everybody had to check a flag.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, there was a guy crossing and he dropped his cap, so I
Engineer: let him pick it up.
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