Spanish Grand Prix 2018: Practice 2 team radio
30 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2018, across 15 drivers. Daniel RICCIARDO had the most, with 4.
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
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Brendon HARTLEY: Bit of oversteer, entry 24.
Romain GROSJEAN: Oh fudge. I think I'm stuck in the gravel, mate.
Engineer: Okay, yeah. Looks like you're stuck.
Engineer: Crows on the crapple trap.
Engineer: do you like a front wing adjust i don't think
Sergey SIROTKIN: so i think i want to try to keep and do the good lap with what i have first okay
Engineer: understood
Engineer: Try to avoid low revs Nico
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: think the wind is stronger than this morning, quite
Engineer: tricky.
Engineer: So Sirotkin on your tail, then Leclerc behind him.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, yeah, I'll box.
Engineer: OK, understood. Let us know what you want to do, and Leclerc on you now, then there's a gap behind.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, let's come down front wing.
Engineer: Five
Daniel RICCIARDO: clicks.
Engineer: Lancer, where is the understeer? Is it mainly high speed or as well on turn 4? No, better both. Both? Better both.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I will do another lap. Copy. Just traffic after traffic. Understood.
Engineer: I'm still struggling entries a bit. Last two corners I had traffic with Hülkenberg and went wide.
Engineer: As
Fernando ALONSO: you wish, I think we are losing the rear a little bit.
Engineer: So, Fernando, we suggest giving it another go. So, no left-hand toggle for turn 5. No left-hand toggle for turn 5. And up on mid before we get to turn 10.
Sergey SIROTKIN: Exit office here, which is very unpredictable and very unexpected from the previous run.
Engineer: If they're not cool enough I could do another cool down. Yep, no problem at all
Engineer: So rear tyre temperature is actually coming up still rather than reducing at the moment. So we will need the double cool
Esteban OCON: Copy, last sector was difficult
Engineer: Do
Daniel RICCIARDO: we have time to smash some front wing in?
Engineer: Yes.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I think that's worth trying.
Engineer: OK, we'll give it a go. So, boxy slap.
Daniel RICCIARDO: And I can always abort if it doesn't change. Yeah, understood.
Engineer: I really don't feel it. I
Lance STROLL: don't feel the grip at all.
Pierre GASLY: Guys really bad in terms of traffic
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I have
Engineer: a message, no press, try to make it back, is it ok to drive on? No, stop the car, stop the car, stop the car and switch off the engine, when you can.
Engineer: Can you ask the burst to come down to push me? Yes, someone is coming to bring you.
Engineer: I
Brendon HARTLEY: have
Engineer: a
Brendon HARTLEY: lot of instability on the brake pedal. As soon as I hit the brake pedal I feel already the rear moving.
Engineer: I
Brendon HARTLEY: don't know if there is something I can do on brake balance.
Engineer: You forgot ALS in the last sector on the last lap.
Lewis HAMILTON: Are they both on this tyre? Because there's no grip on this tyre right now.
Engineer: Copy Lewis, they are both on the same tyre but less management from the both of them.
Engineer: My left front is shrugging a lot copy keep going at the moment
Engineer: We're changing the plan. We just thought, since the tyres were hanging on, we'd do a couple of extra laps. We're starting to take now. There's quite a lot of rear grinding, rear left. OK, suggest one more time-lap, then we box. I suggest we box. OK, box now. AeroBalance changed. It's too late, Nico, we're not ready for you to box. We're miles away. What's the situation on AeroBalance? As planned.
Engineer: Yeah, I got passed by the Red Bull. Yeah, I feel like I have no aerobalance. Either the fronts are gone or I have no aerobalance. OK, understood. Yeah, something is wrong. Check mechanical balance also. OK, Carlos, let's box to slap please, box to slap. OK, can you please confirm box? Yeah, box, box.
Engineer: Charles, are you OK? All OK? Question?
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, yeah, I'm OK.
Engineer: So, are you OK to continue, Charles? We have to cool down the car, cool down the car. And we box this lap. Box, box. OK,
Charles LECLERC: copy.
Engineer: How is the front wing?
Marcus ERICSSON: It's very understeery. I'm going to have a puncture in a minute. Box, box, box. Ok, box.
Sergio PEREZ: I lose the front wheel, I think I stop, it's going to come off the the car
Engineer: Watch for the stop in track clear.
Romain GROSJEAN: What is he doing mate?
Engineer: You could be a bit slower on the way into one, carry more speed, exit one and round two. Think about that compromise, slower on the way into one and carry more speed exit.
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