Russian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio
45 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Russian Grand Prix 2018, across 18 drivers. Lando NORRIS 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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
- Artem MARKELOV · Renault · 1 message
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Force India · 1 message
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Radio check 1212, can you hear me 1212? Yeah we can hear you, good to hear your voice again.
Lando NORRIS: Ah thanks.
Engineer: There's a potential comms issue with the McLaren ahead, so if he does show an obvious issue, Daniel will obviously try and drive by, and you do the same at that point.
Engineer: So, Lando, if this happens again, effectively what we would do is go to P0, you'd go to P0, and then you'd follow Coxy's signals of when to go back to P1 and back to P2 like we've just done. So let's leave everything as it is right now, but if it happens again, that is what we will do.
Engineer: obviously just be aware Max tires are a little bit cooler than they would otherwise be in a normal situation it's not disastrous probably similar to a safety car restart scenario
Engineer: OK Lando, nice work and radio check approaching turn 2.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, radio check.
Engineer: Yep, that's loud and clear for us. And radio check out of turn 10 and how are the tyres, are you happy to continue?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, radio check, tyres are all good I think.
Engineer: OK, in which case let's go once past please, once past.
Lance STROLL: The lights aren't working.
Engineer: Okay, could be.
Engineer: OK, and radio check approaching turn 5.
Nico HULKENBERG: Not very good, the radio breaking up.
Engineer: And radio check approaching turn 15.
Nico HULKENBERG: Better, but still not very great.
Engineer: Yeah, agreed, something's really bad. And radio check again approaching turn 5.
Nico HULKENBERG: It's getting better a bit now.
Engineer: Yeah, I still think we've got a problem though, because data's not coming through properly.
Esteban OCON: Why you're not going faster because it's a massive oscillation if I go full throttle
Engineer: All
Lewis HAMILTON: right, hand down. Vibration in the front brake.
Engineer: Okay, copy. We'll have a look.
Pierre GASLY: I'm shift-acquired to arse.
Engineer: We are having a look.
Engineer: So you can cool the tires more if you want just depends on how you feel grip levels
Brendon HARTLEY: Four upshifts, four upshifts.
Engineer: We are still checking for the upshift, keep the head down, we are still checking.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, a lot of fast oscillations.
Engineer: Is the car okay? Are you okay?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, fine.
Pierre GASLY: I'm lacking stability big time
Engineer: So we are boxing this light for a nose change.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Understood.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Where's Benno from behind? John, push him behind Yeah, earlier, yeah, earlier
Charles LECLERC: Yeah but there's something wrong with the balance guys, check on the data if it's everything all right, it doesn't feel fine, there's so much understeer like crazy, like there was a problem, the flash is already completely gone.
Engineer: Understood, we will check.
Sebastian VETTEL: I can still feel a bit of variation in power. Ok, stop it.
Lewis HAMILTON: And a false neutral.
Engineer: Is
Lewis HAMILTON: everything okay, or do we have more time?
Engineer: No, we're going to be running out of time Lewis, so boxy end of the slap, we have your pit confirm.
Engineer: And that was a good lap that last one
Engineer: Just check the left front of the car. Yep. Just went off at turn two. Yeah, we saw that. We're changing the floor Anyway, as planned We'll have a look at the front wing as well
Engineer: Okay, it was a bit of a bad positioning on the track because I was always out of sync with the cars around and Always in traffic the first two sectors
Engineer: I
Brendon HARTLEY: went off, re-charge
Engineer: Ok understood, we will have only two more Tires went ready
Brendon HARTLEY: Big snaps of Möbius there from mid to exit Front tires weren't really ready
Engineer: Yeah, we need to work more on the front tires if we can
Engineer: That's another nice lap Lando. And Lando think about front wing, how much front wing shall we add?
Lando NORRIS: I wouldn't want to go too much because the wheels are dropping off a bit so I'd say a hole, maybe two holes if you want to notice a bit more of a difference.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, I'm having a huge snap from mid to exit, and still a huge under stay at mid corner.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Anything I can
Sergey SIROTKIN: do for the front left brake warming, it's pulling a lot to one side on the braking when the brakes go down.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, really not everyone's
Engineer: a
Brendon HARTLEY: cop.
Lewis HAMILTON: How did turn 8 look there?
Engineer: Turn 8, still some time to be found. Minimum speed 1 tenth.
Lance STROLL: The dash isn't working for the tires.
Engineer: Do I need a box? OK, if you need a box, send more box. Yeah, I'll send driver one. OK, copy.
Engineer: They're out of traffic, they're out of traffic. Copy that, yeah we saw Hoffmanburg blocking you in the final sector, he's preparing for a lap.
Engineer: So, Stoff, Lando found time on a third attempt with this tyre. Looks like the tyre keeps going pretty well. He actually improved by half a second on a second attempt.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Lost the rear,
Engineer: should we box then? Yes, I am happy to box.
Engineer: Brinpo, Seb's slow lap was around 15 seconds slower than ours so I would suggest keeping that cool down lap on the relatively slow side
Charles LECLERC: I'm struggling a lot.
Engineer: The moment time loss is only in the last sector.
Engineer: How's the tyres, Esteban?
Esteban OCON: Tyres, same as level 1.
Charles LECLERC: What am I doing in turn 8? Am I trying to... because I lose the rear all the time but can you see anything on the data?
Engineer: We're checking, shot.
Engineer: OK Niko, we have a problem with the car, we need to box the slap please, box the slap, scenario 12.
Engineer: So far, the pace is pretty good. Very good, I would say.
Charles LECLERC: I locked up with the cold brakes
Lewis HAMILTON: Take a big hit, turn one, floor.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, traffic to Kimi, not
Engineer: gonna let me by.
Engineer: Feedback on the tires please.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Nowhere, they are completely f***ed. Honestly, really really f***ed.
Engineer: Ok, understood.
Esteban OCON: The level of vibration is crazy, eh?
Max VERSTAPPEN: I don't know, the four army in front of me completely cuts the last corner to prepare the left.
Engineer: OK, good info, thank you.
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