Monaco Grand Prix 2018: Qualifying team radio
25 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix 2018, across 12 drivers. Brendon HARTLEY had the most, with 5.
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 · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 5 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, that's still red. It's going green in 20 seconds.
Engineer: Okay, so it's still red. It's going green in 20 seconds. 20 seconds to green.
Engineer: 20 seconds to green light, 20 seconds to green light.
Engineer: We need a good work on the brakes, we need good work on the brakes.
Pierre GASLY: Life works right, but
Engineer: the temperature doesn't work. It's not working yet, no worries.
Lance STROLL: I catch the front left, I'm not sure if I have damage.
Engineer: Tell me now if I have damage. OK, seems OK from our side. We'll take a slow lap, just watch for a little clerk. Yep.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, the Mercedes blocked me completely, completely. F*** my life.
Engineer: okay the freaking headrest is loose okay all right if it's if it's if it's unsafe or box currently p12 it's not unsafe but just fix it after okay we'll do it next time around so we'll concentrate now cool there is plus 30. i mean
Lance STROLL: it's not super safe but it's fine
Engineer: and once again Fernando there are a group of cars in front of you that will all back up again so build a gap gradually. Sainz is the car on the time lap he is approaching turn four at the moment.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I had a very bad shift on the last corner.
Engineer: Copy. Sainz pushing behind, 6 seconds. Sainz behind, 6 seconds pushing.
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, the lamp was screwed. I got screwed.
Engineer: I'll push again.
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, let me know it's pretty messy
Engineer: Sainz is five seconds behind you, he's pushing, try to keep him behind.
Lance STROLL: I'm really suffering with traction and all those kind of things.
Engineer: Watch for Leclerc, yellow turn one. Okay, got massive traffic, mate. Yeah, understood. So Hulkenberg is behind on a push, but he's just gone to the yellow sector, but you have Hulkenberg behind on a push.
Engineer: Okay, Force India just tried to put me at the wall.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, scrappy lap, guys. Focus on
Engineer: recharge. Focus on recharge.
Lance STROLL: I'm really suffering with traction and all those kind of things.
Engineer: I'll keep up the pace now and get to working these tyres. Sainz will be the next to go on the hot lap. He's in Rascalsen now, 20 seconds behind you.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Ok, very bad left form up at the top. Big enough to lap. For the first one. Understood.
Lewis HAMILTON: That was very cool.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: I think it was still okay, this lap, to be honest. Okay, so let's do push, cool, push then.
Engineer: So box, box, box, charge the battery, charge the battery.
Engineer: Big gap behind Nico, no one else on track at the moment.
Engineer: We're expecting first lap AFM, you can use Strat Mode 2 again.
Engineer: So how is the front wing, Nico? How is the front wing?
Nico HULKENBERG: It's
Engineer: all
Nico HULKENBERG: in a bad place. No big desires to give us a scale.
Engineer: Okay, it just comes down to whether we do the prep lap or not then.
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