Spanish Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
32 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2018, across 12 drivers. 31 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Brendon HARTLEY had the most, with 8.
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 · 8 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Nico HULKENBERG: Whoo, that was a good one!
Engineer: Yeah it was, very little slip. Recharge on, good, got it.
Nico HULKENBERG: Steering rack is okay now, today is such a difference.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, first sector a lot better than yesterday. I struggled with the rear tires the last sector
Engineer: So
Brendon HARTLEY: I think I need to manage the rears a bit better the first sector, but it was washout mid-corner medium speed washout mid-corner medium speed
Engineer: On focus and downshift, you've done a good job, better than yesterday. Keep focusing on downshift.
Engineer: So straight out, straight out, no start.
Brendon HARTLEY: I messed up the last lap, should I box?
Engineer: Happy to box, unless you want to try for one more lap again. Your call.
Brendon HARTLEY: I'll box.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Yeah, it feels like more green compared to yesterday.
Engineer: Yeah, maybe, why not. I'm happy, but I'll take one more.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Wasn't too bad to start.
Engineer: OK, Raikkonen 3 seconds behind you, watch your mirrors, Raikkonen 3 seconds behind, let him pass before 10.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, just with speed, front's a bit weak, so I could do it more front in the higher speed.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: I'm still not happy with the braking into turn 10. I've got I don't think I've got any rear locking You have a bit more than yesterday, okay, but yeah, okay. We'll look at that
Engineer: I didn't have time. Sorry guys
Engineer: Hartley behind as boxed, Ericsson 10 seconds behind
Engineer: And we just need some full throttle time now to charge the battery. Next car back is Lance. He's 10 seconds behind. He's also on a cool down. So just get some full throttle time now.
Engineer: Okay, so that's good and we'll box this map. Box. Copy, box.
Engineer: Go Crawley or Deploy? Go Crawley, sorry, Go Crawley, not good.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, I'm in the grass I'm able to get out.
Engineer: Yeah, okay. We've got you on the TV feed box this lap
Engineer: Yep, so confirmed, so Vettel behind is backed off, you've got Ericsson behind him, out lap.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Left front feels pretty shot. I'll try a really slow lap, not even in low speed.
Engineer: You've got no quick cars around, you're just Hamilton behind an outlap.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, I can always start the lap and abort it. Yeah,
Engineer: understood. But
Daniel RICCIARDO: I didn't feel much difference.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Well, no difference I should say.
Engineer: We can do another lap if you want, or if the tyres have gone beyond it then we'll box.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, much better at the last sector, but I struggled big time with the front first two sectors. Not enough front. I needed more front wing.
Engineer: Copy that.
Brendon HARTLEY: So yeah, lost a lot of time due to the understeer first sector. First and second sector, sorry.
Engineer: Oh my god, again, I lost too much time. Recharge. Copy that, copy that. Focus on full throttle. Focus on recharge. Full focus on recharge.
Engineer: Temperature hasn't climbed like yesterday so we may do a single cool down.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, copy. I should have. The first lap the stability was okay, but this one it was a bit worse on entries.
Engineer: Yes, agreed. Very clear. Let's go for one more push. Back up to entry 4.
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, I still think I could have improved the time. I just made a mess of the last sector.
Engineer: Position is good. We are phased with all the cars around us. Next car behind is Leclerc. Outlap time 3.
Romain GROSJEAN: what just
Engineer: right the bill attract
Romain GROSJEAN: okay
Engineer: it's okay so look just just look at the tires cleaned off you'll go again okay
Engineer: I'll do a bigger cool down, they're not there. Yeah, watch your dash, looks like they were, yeah I'm sure you can see the temperatures.
Lance STROLL: Okay, I go different three. I feel the corner understeer
Engineer: Yes, if you have understeer go two as well on mid and entry eight
Engineer: You need to let me know if there's two cars coming. Understood. I had my eyes on Hülkenberg but I had no idea of signs and by the time I saw him it was too late. Maybe you call Renault and tell them. Copy that.
Nico HULKENBERG: So I need to cool the ties down
Engineer: Are you okay, Brandon? Are you okay? Yeah, I'm okay.
Sebastian VETTEL: Is he okay?
Engineer: I think so. Yeah, his head is moving. He should be okay. Yeah, his head on the radio is okay.
Engineer: Ok, any idea on what happened?
Brendon HARTLEY: Yeah, I clipped the grass on the entry.
Engineer: Car was feeling much better on the side. Ok, copy that.
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