Spanish Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio
31 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2018, across 14 drivers. Brendon HARTLEY had the most, with 6.
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 · 6 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Robert KUBICA · Williams · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: We switch to out one, out one.
Engineer: Entry to final chicane, also tailwind.
Engineer: Fernando, just for your awareness, both you and Stoffel had the same issue in Turn 13. It does look to be very windy around there.
Engineer: Work on tyres and brakes, work on tyres and brakes.
Engineer: Tire target is 0-0. Tire target is 0-0. We are still cold.
Engineer: Tyres are now in the window. Tyres are now approaching the window.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah copy, I'm circling along with the rail, circling along with
Engineer: the
Brendon HARTLEY: rail on entry exit.
Lance STROLL: Okay, car is very oversteer everywhere
Engineer: Charlie, board to run, we have no telemetry, board to run and box.
Engineer: Do you think we have any car damage? I
Brendon HARTLEY: don't think so, but there's a lot of stones.
Engineer: But I think I'm gonna box because I think we've got a problem on the car Okay understood do the CSL that CSL
Engineer: Is the car stuck?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, just touched the barrier so... Okay.
Engineer: Check out we would like a slightly harder out lap than the last run a harder out lap than the last run
Sergio PEREZ: Very loose. Very loose rear on entry.
Brendon HARTLEY: The change has given me a bit of understeer at high speed, but it wasn't enough entry and exit medium low.
Lance STROLL: Oh, I have too much oversteer, man.
Pierre GASLY: Carlos, block me in the last sector
Engineer: Yeah, we saw
Nico HULKENBERG: Jesus it's tires like it with the test stick no grip
Engineer: it's
Lance STROLL: unbelievable how bad the balance is i just want like a little bit of understeer
Romain GROSJEAN: The rear end of the car is super loose into 14-15 in a bit of a strange way, like the rear tire not inflated.
Engineer: Okay, very interesting.
Engineer: You're okay? I
Lance STROLL: need to be pushed back into the gravel
Engineer: Okay, I think this might be a while then so I'll let you know whether we need to switch off, okay?
Lance STROLL: Yeah, I'll pick the guys
Engineer: Okay, we'll switch off then. Yeah, I think we'll switch off Lance Okay, so follow the instructions of the marshals and then we'll go to P0
Engineer: Front tyre temperatures are on the low side.
Engineer: OK, K1 and push for another lap. K1 test and push for another lap. Negative, I'll take one more. OK, copy.
Engineer: Take another cool down and push again. No,
Sebastian VETTEL: I'm fine. I prioritized the run after.
Engineer: And engine 11, give me engine 11, and box.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: OK.
Engineer: OK, you can do one more push lap in scenario 9 if you want.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, the problem is the front left is destroyed.
Engineer: OK, understood, then we box for a new front wing.
Esteban OCON: Balance is better than it was, but still not great.
Engineer: Ok, come. Same direction. Understood, understood.
Engineer: The
Nico HULKENBERG: rain is clearing up
Engineer: a
Nico HULKENBERG: bit.
Engineer: Yeah, I feel a lot of degradation on the rear
Carlos SAINZ: right, don't ask me why, the rear right
Carlos SAINZ: Like a bit of a packture feeling.
Engineer: Yeah, I'm happy to box. I think the tires are finished.
Engineer: Constant speed 140, third gear, stay off the racing line, Pérez coming behind Behind Pérez is Magnussen, track is clear behind now Yeah, copy, that was a nightmare mate, all those cars
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, sorry, I just, I reach out later because Magnussen needs to understand that he is not alone on track, honestly. I mean, he's on a slow lap and he stays on the line and every time it's him, every time.
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