Russian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 2 team radio
38 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Russian Grand Prix 2018, across 18 drivers. Lance STROLL 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
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 5 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: three proper time-lapse so in a slow fast slow fast slow fast arrangement
Engineer: So Magnussen is the car behind, he's five seconds behind, Fernando 11 seconds behind Magnussen, we want to pick Fernando up in turn 10.
Nico HULKENBERG: Trading to sub 4, feels good the grip Copy
Engineer: that
Engineer: Just watch for sight behind on his time-lapse.
Lance STROLL: They're a bit late there.
Marcus ERICSSON: It feels like after the gear changes, it's not pulling cleanly after the gear shifts, upshifts. All the gears? Yeah.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Is there some rain now? Maybe there is some water coming from the car in front. So I have some spots on the horizon.
Engineer: Copy. At the moment we don't have rain from our tire spotters.
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, I have some sort of vibrations at this speed and rev range with the constant speed.
Romain GROSJEAN: We don't have any more laps, do we?
Engineer: We should save them for high fuel, yeah. We
Romain GROSJEAN: need more mileage in general. I need more laps.
Engineer: It's very difficult to drive, so I do need more laps. Yeah, well, let's go for... We can do one more push then, so we'll go for one more push.
Sergey SIROTKIN: There is an obvious increase in grip, but it's every time someone in the last sector ruins the lap.
Engineer: If the tyres are hanging in, we can't go for another lap, up to you. I saw, as usual, Hamilton got in the way in the last corner.
Lance STROLL: Look, I have too much oversteer
Engineer: in
Lance STROLL: high speed.
Max VERSTAPPEN: We're super slow on the straight.
Engineer: That's it, carry up.
Engineer: Would you like another go yeah,
Max VERSTAPPEN: we can try I mean the behavior of this is a bit different Okay
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, fronts, fronts, all rears weren't ready to
Engineer: start the lap.
Engineer: Checker just cautioned with running wide exit turn 4 for pace
Engineer: So you don't think there's another lap in the tyre? Give it a go, but I'll try and drop the temperatures even more.
Engineer: We are still losing too much in the middle sector, we are still losing too much in the middle sector.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, copy. Can't carry the same speed as the other car.
Engineer: Main difference is braking, we are braking much earlier than the other car.
Engineer: Sector 2 is excellent, but we need to focus on Sector 1 and Sector 3, that's where we lose. What do you want to do?
Marcus ERICSSON: I have one more lap, please.
Engineer: Copy, one more lap.
Lance STROLL: i hit the front end really aggressively yeah
Engineer: yeah copy that we'll check the car
Charles LECLERC: I tried using the kerb for braking, but it was too much.
Engineer: Stop. Fernando looked to do quite well with the toe. I think there's no problem to go behind him if he wants to go in front.
Lance STROLL: Ah, I made a mistake.
Engineer: OK, copy that, I'll make a box then, a little box.
Engineer: I want to reset my lap. Display 12, position 1, display 12, position 1.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Safety car?
Engineer: No, display 12, position 2 please, display 12, position 2.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that's what I'm having.
Engineer: Ok, position 1 now, position 1.
Engineer: Ok, stick with it Max. Has it stabilised or is it getting a little worse?
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's not easy to drive, that's
Engineer: the
Max VERSTAPPEN: problem.
Nico HULKENBERG: OK, we need to box, try as I can
Engineer: Copy that Niko Niko, we're thinking of 18 turns down on the front wing for when you stop
Nico HULKENBERG: Niko, with... Talk to me in my money, we never took turns
Esteban OCON: First gear is quite slow to get in.
Engineer: Is that car okay?
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah,
Engineer: it's
Sebastian VETTEL: fine.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, so main deck is on the front left at the moment.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: We should try to clear up this graining if possible, try to clear up the graining if we can.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Amazon is gone
Engineer: Understood
Engineer: Ok, and how are the tires?
Carlos SAINZ: Feels like they are coming back a bit. But just a bit.
Engineer: Ok, understood.
Pierre GASLY: Truck delivery is really bad in the last sector, especially at the penalty mate corner, I go back on power, I have nothing.
Engineer: To
Kimi RAIKKONEN: the left, it's also perfect. It feels almost like I have a punchdown to the left.
Engineer: Copy.
Sebastian VETTEL: You want me to go through traffic or catch it all the time? Try to pass it. Try to pass it if you can.
Engineer: Mini racing everybody here, no better gap, but you won't be too mini racing. Grosjean I guess is coming in soon, and Ericsson as well in front.
Engineer: How are the tyres, Daniel? How are the tyres?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Front stabilised. Rear's taken a little hit, which helped the ballast.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Did anyone else go long on the Ultra? Or has anyone gone long on the Hyper?
Engineer: Magnussen on the Hyper did around similar stint to you He started 42.8 He ended up similar at the end, 42.9s, 42.7s He did about 15-16 laps Gasly went long on the Ultra Started 40.8, 41.4 Finished 41.1, 40.6 maybe
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: think something might be broken, or it's actually curved, as the car is pulling to the left a lot.
Engineer: OK, copy, we can see the high flat spot.
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