Monaco Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
17 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Monaco Grand Prix 2018, across 8 drivers. 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
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Keep working on the brakes. We need to work on the brakes
Engineer: I'm Box, Daniel Box. Bottas, now 10 seconds behind you on the hot lap. Box's lap.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, yes, before I forget, the car is a bit off-center to the right. And, yeah, it feels like the steering wheel is a lot more direct to the left than to the right. Okay, understood. A lot more steering to turn
Engineer: right than to turn left. Okay, you have Gasly coming up. He's still on a time lap. He's three seconds behind you now.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, I made a mess of the last two corners. I probably wouldn't... I'd do a balance change. Struck a little bit on the rear entry and exits. Actually, car feels better in the low speed than yesterday. So I maybe wouldn't do the change.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Oh seriously boys seriously. Okay box.
Romain GROSJEAN: oh seriously boys seriously okay box okay
Engineer: understood
Romain GROSJEAN: did you you didn't give the message we
Engineer: gave the message well
Romain GROSJEAN: it was not received then okay well anyway just uh we need to get some mechanical grip on the car yeah okay i've lost a lot
Engineer: yep understood so we've got a couple ideas we'll put them together here
Engineer: Still got Magnussen at 14 seconds. Still 14 seconds. The players are not ready for me to do a trap-up. Copy that.
Lance STROLL: I don't have tires for the last sector anymore.
Engineer: Yeah, okay, copy that.
Marcus ERICSSON: Starting to struggle with the front tires again.
Engineer: Okay, should we go back to the constant SOC already?
Marcus ERICSSON: Yeah, because it's going to get worse and worse now. Okay, that's fine. So SOC 7, you
Engineer: have signs right behind.
Engineer: Yeah, I'm going to do a build-up. It was a lot of travel in that out-lap. OK. We've got Hartley coming up behind you on the time-lap.
Engineer: So nobody close behind on a time lap, so you can cool the tyres as much as you want, a lot of overheating at the end of the lap.
Engineer: so still getting quite a lot of oversliding just think about the settings in terms of gaps good gap behind to cool the tires
Engineer: too
Lance STROLL: much on this here guys i can't go quicker like this completely front limited okay copy that i'll go back to you on that we'll target for now plus 30 seconds taking temp out the rear what about the torque somebody come down on it well
Engineer: you you tried before what uh who was the feeling when
Lance STROLL: i look up it's not so good maybe it'll help stop the car i don't know
Engineer: stay with the torque stay with the door
Engineer: Pace is still there, Nico. It's just traffic, isn't it? So no problem. Yeah, it's just frustrating. That's Monaco, I'm afraid.
Engineer: But I
Lance STROLL: think the rears are also not so good because of the tires. Just like one run.
Engineer: Let's try again. You have another lap. So try again.
Engineer: Also, time-lapse or not? Time-lapse, time-lapse, yes, Magnussen behind. Everyone is on time-lapse. Sorry, I screwed the lap. Yep, copy. That's okay, Brandon, that's okay. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, please. We go take the flag and we go for the practice start. I couldn't go any quicker, but you said he was further behind. Don't worry about it. Loco, take the flag, please.
Engineer: Okay, before I forget, from the position I sat in, I could not see the lights. I could not see the lights. Okay, copy that. Good reminder, copy that. Box, box, take it easy, box, box.
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