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Russian Grand Prix2018 · Qualifying team radio

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15:01 to 16:09
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29 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Russian Grand Prix 2018, across 14 drivers. Kevin MAGNUSSEN 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.

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  1. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas15:01:210:06

    EngineerOkay, third temperature more or less in the window. You are three seconds behind the stroll.

  2. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso15:02:230:05

    EngineerRemember, energy in the front tires and weaving on the back straight.

  3. Lance STROLLWilliams15:04:400:03

    EngineerI made a

    Lance STROLLmistake.

  4. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren15:09:260:06

    EngineerSeems like there's a bit more grip out there, a bit more lap time than in FP3.

  5. Romain GROSJEANHaas15:09:350:09

    EngineerI can't do anything in eight, the rear is too loose. Okay, understood. We'll see if we can help and assist some time, there's a lot of tailwind.

  6. Esteban OCONForce India15:11:190:03

    EngineerYeah,

    Esteban OCONI'll try to fake that.

  7. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes15:13:140:04

    EngineerEgalus, that's P1, 10th and a half to Valtteri.

  8. Daniel RICCIARDORed Bull15:15:520:20

    EngineerOK reverse on, reverse on. We are safe but we'll get ready to go again as discussed. So cool the tyres right down, currently P3 on the 33.2, tenth quicker than Stamford. The Mercedes are three and four tenths quicker than us at this point.

  9. Sergey SIROTKINWilliams15:20:400:09

    Sergey SIROTKINI spun the car guys

    EngineerOkay, yeah,

    Sergey SIROTKINI'm okay

  10. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso15:20:550:11

    EngineerOk, have my patience Which axle please Brendan, can you confirm which axle? Right front through turn 3, right front through turn 3 Keep us posted please

  11. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso15:23:070:08

    Brendon HARTLEYYeah, I had

    Engineerthe

    Brendon HARTLEYyellow and I had a traffic now. It's all over. That was annoying.

  12. Lance STROLLWilliams15:23:180:12

    Engineerit's currently yellow at 10 9. ah yeah yeah understood that's us indecision

  13. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari15:27:240:04

    EngineerMSS is on option.

  14. Marcus ERICSSONSauber15:33:150:11

    EngineerOk, compared to Charles it's mainly turn 2 minimum speed was poor and the last two corners where we lost the most.

  15. Esteban OCONForce India15:34:520:12

    Esteban OCONYeah, for next one, if possible, if Sergio can avoid being in front of the last two corners, it would be great.

    EngineerCopy that, Esteban. Understood.

  16. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas15:36:300:09

    EngineerIt's very likely but you don't need to run again. You are P8. We are having a look. Obviously you have an extra set

  17. Romain GROSJEANHaas15:36:490:05

    EngineerOkay, good job. It's 0.2 quicker than Kevin.

  18. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes15:42:350:03

    EngineerAnd abort the lap, abort the lap.

  19. Sebastian VETTELFerrari15:48:530:09

    Sebastian VETTELOkay, I will back off a little bit in the pit lane, because there's a lot of cars.

    EngineerUnderstood.

  20. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes15:53:080:09

    EngineerI could lose, so box, box, box, box, it's P2, just 4,000th to Valtteri, P1.

  21. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas15:53:520:10

    EngineerSo basically you are two 10s from P5, that is Ocon, and I think there is quite a lot of margin in the last sector, the second sector was good.

  22. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari15:56:050:05

    Kimi RAIKKONENI was faster on the previous set of tires.

  23. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas15:58:510:09

    EngineerSo normal out lap, tires looks great, position looks great and your driving looks great so far, so let's put a lap together

  24. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes16:01:440:11

    EngineerSo that's pole position. Good job, Valtteri. Good job. All right, guys. I enjoyed that. Let's get it to roll. Goodbye.

  25. Sebastian VETTELFerrari16:03:000:13

    Sebastian VETTELI messed up in last sector, turn 16, 15, I think there were one and a half, two tens, but not enough, I tried everything.

    EngineerOk, understood.

  26. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari16:03:220:17

    EngineerWhat

    Kimi RAIKKONENhappened? I purposely slowed down. I

    Engineerdon't know what happened, I don't know. You were half a second down on your previous lap. Anyway, we are P4, Bottas P1, Hamilton P2, Sebastian P3.

  27. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas16:05:090:16

    EngineerAnd we are P5, amazing job mate, really great job. You are really the king of Russia. Well, let's go! Let's go from Spain!

  28. Charles LECLERCSauber16:07:580:21

    Charles LECLERCYeah, I don't think much more was possible from the first push lap. I tried to push a bit more, but everywhere I was trying to put a bit more, it was just too much. I

    Engineerthink it was a very good lap. Yeah, it was excellent. Excellent qualifying. We finished P7. Very good qualifying. Good job.

  29. Romain GROSJEANHaas16:09:140:15

    EngineerOkay, everyone's through so P9, P9, yes, yeah, we didn't prepare you well in the first run, so. No, but the tires, mate, they were too cold. These were too cold still. There was too many cars, too many cars. Yeah, okay, yeah.