Spanish Grand Prix 2018: Qualifying team radio
24 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Spanish Grand Prix 2018, across 13 drivers. Romain GROSJEAN 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
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Williams · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, so I'm going to drive straight out. Track is clear.
Lance STROLL: Very oversteering everything.
Engineer: Yeah, I saw that, so it's really tricky, so I think that if we have to go back on mid-4.
Fernando ALONSO: You need to tell me the wind direction precisely
Engineer: Okay, we get the rear grip wasn't there Okay, so try and keep the rear temps up with the fronts We can let drop the rear temps were probably too low than we say So let's try and keep the rears up Ericsson for behind
Engineer: Did you hear me? Boxed is not. Understood Kimi. If you want we can try to do the start. We pass through for the start.
Nico HULKENBERG: in big trouble now stopping try
Engineer: swinging the car side to side if possible pressure is back should
Nico HULKENBERG: we go back to scenario or something nico
Engineer: try to do a time lap next lap
Nico HULKENBERG: again same again same
Engineer: again buddy yeah okay we'll box this lap nico swing the car about watch out for Verstappen he's three seconds behind on a time lap
Engineer: Okay, so we'll just have to put a bit more fuel in the car to try and take it I also need more air balance, 0.7 more air balance Okay
Engineer: You okay?
Lance STROLL: Yeah.
Engineer: okay let's just follow the instructions of the marshals and then P0
Esteban OCON: Now stone's on the track.
Engineer: Copy that Esteban
Engineer: Ok, where can I improve? Yep, checking now. Lap time is the same, so we'll find where to improve.
Engineer: how
Lewis HAMILTON: far off was i they did a really poor job with cleaning the track there's so many stones there it's dangerous okay
Engineer: copy we'll feed that back
Engineer: Yeah, a bit of traffic during that lap. Copy that. How was the balance? Yeah, it was okay. I obviously feel I can go quicker by.
Engineer: Carlos fill in, and I'm in the scale, **** it. OK, we got enough time for this, Carlos, so you can restart on the MZUK as soon as they let you go. OK, Carlos, so obviously this has cost us time to do fast, slow, fast, so we are fueling for prep fast again on the soft.
Engineer: Yeah, there's a lot of traffic here. Yes. Yep. It's fine to drop back a bit now. Drop back a bit now and then just push through 9 and 13.
Engineer: Tire is okay, you can call. Tire is okay, you can call.
Pierre GASLY: So much understeer, felt like the fronts were completely not working, so strange
Engineer: Okay, I'm in the gravel okay watch for signs just take it easy and watch for signs I Think shape who doesn't look okay. We're still in okay place. So max coming eight behind. So just make sure we don't Get back. We're fine though. We're all fine. So max for behind
Engineer: OK, so you've got Grosjean and Magnussen behind you, 5 seconds behind you, they have been doing first push laps, so be careful with them. Yeah, let's hope they are careful with me too.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I'll finish this lap just to get the time copy
Engineer: copy
Engineer: Ok mate, just think about your tyres on the way in for the next run, just think about what you want to do tyres for the next run, you don't have to let us know until you get back
Daniel RICCIARDO: Think we stick with the original plan
Engineer: Ok understood
Engineer: Pressure is OK, just plus half on the flap. OK, copy that.
Engineer: We've got no grip mate. Yeah, it's nothing there is it? Okay, we're just thinking about what we can do temperatures wise for the next run
Engineer: Think about long braking, long braking into the corner will help
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