Russian Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
34 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Russian Grand Prix 2018, across 15 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 2 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Stoffel VANDOORNE · McLaren · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Max VERSTAPPEN: Radio check, loud
Engineer: and clear
Fernando ALONSO: It's okay, Scenario 7?
Engineer: Yes, Scenario 7 is okay, we're not doing any damage, don't worry.
Engineer: Thank you
Lance STROLL: for the second, I'll have a second.
Lance STROLL: Can I tell you one
Engineer: more? Negative, negative.
Sebastian VETTEL: You're through, last sector. Yeah, mostly last three corners.
Engineer: There'll be a start, start. After the rubber of the box you said? No, there's a start after the rubber of the box and a start now.
Lewis HAMILTON: Alright, hand it down.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: Okay bro, can you check that everything is okay? I suddenly lost the front end to the end of the lap big time. Okay, understood. We'll look now.
Engineer: Copy that. If you want to do another cool down lap, you can go again, otherwise just bog us. Copy, one more.
Romain GROSJEAN: Yeah, I don't
Engineer: know which the McLaren was, but it just didn't move up the way. Yeah, it's Van Doren out lap. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, but my turn agent can't stay on the line.
Lewis HAMILTON: Still a bit of sector weak, yeah?
Engineer: So the line you used on turn 7 last lap would probably be investigated, so just keep an eye on that. Turn 8 is probably the area for biggest improvement, but it's not much.
Romain GROSJEAN: I think we've got a problem with the front suspension, bro.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Romain GROSJEAN: There's a lot of pulling in 16 on the slow lap and the car is not reacting normally.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We're looking at everything. Just give me a second.
Esteban OCON: Yo, he was on the line totally.
Engineer: Yeah, we saw that Esteban. Yeah, he was right on the line and going slow.
Max VERSTAPPEN: IBOX, see you soon.
Engineer: Understood, IBOX.
Engineer: Looks like the tracks improved quite a lot.
Engineer: That's a good last sector there.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, surprisingly good for the state of the tower.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, I went straight, turn on.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: All cars have pitted so I think you will be the only car out on track.
Engineer: Want to take a full lap? Well, I'm still thinking about it.
Engineer: 5 Bridge on the front OK, copy
Engineer: Ok, so we still have Alonso behind 10 seconds, travelling around on fuel.
Engineer: So we are good on traffic Magnus four seconds behind in face and there's a big gap ahead
Charles LECLERC: Marcus Magnus Magnus
Engineer: Magnus behind in face
Engineer: Just to make a left hand tyre OK copy So air
Lewis HAMILTON: reserve approved
Engineer: So turn 5 biggest area for improvement, next cars behind are on slowlapse Exit right Affirm
Max VERSTAPPEN: All right, the first sector, traffic.
Engineer: I'm just going to look left behind.
Engineer: I saw traffic just happen, we
Marcus ERICSSON: reported it
Stoffel VANDOORNE: Yeah, that last sector was horrendous with traffic.
Fernando ALONSO: Rear's are gone, so think about the start, if it's beneficial or not.
Engineer: OK Fernando, a practice launch would be for your benefit, it would be for your benefit, so I'll let you decide.
Fernando ALONSO: No, I don't need it.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: There is time for one more if you like.
Stoffel VANDOORNE: No, I think it's pointless. Unless you guys are going to learn.
Engineer: No, happy to box this lap.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, that's
Engineer: the
Brendon HARTLEY: frame.
Engineer: Yeah, I'm really struggling to understand it, really. It's very high level of understeer, but there's more than that. Massive, massive. Yeah, OK. Like, yeah, massive. I think he's high fuel, sorry. Oh, boys.
Romain GROSJEAN: What are they doing?
Engineer: I think he's high fuel, sorry. Oh
Romain GROSJEAN: boys!
Engineer: We're gonna miss the... Kimi, we need a fail, Charlie, 30, 0, on.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: OK, but we're gonna miss the...
Engineer: Car, Kimi, stop the car. The f***?
Lance STROLL: Ah, I hit the curb.
Engineer: We have enough time to start. There's 15 seconds. We should make it. 5 seconds. Yeah, we make it. Ok, good. No, we just didn't. Stop. Ok, copy. P1. Ok. Missed 1 second.
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