United States Grand Prix 2018: Practice 1 team radio
18 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the United States Grand Prix 2018, across 11 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 3.
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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Sean GELAEL · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Force India · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 1 message
- Marcus ERICSSON · Sauber · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Sauber · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: So we've got red flag, red flag, so just stop, stop, we'll come and get you.
Sebastian VETTEL: Why is it red flag? I guess it's for the gravel They not confirm
Fernando ALONSO: What's the reason for the red flag?
Engineer: There's stones on the track, I believe
Engineer: Okay, then I'll set brakes look more even now brakes look more even on the front
Engineer: I don't see any clouds coming, just few drops, very small, but there is no big rain coming.
Lando NORRIS: I'm having massive oscillations while shifting.
Engineer: OK, we've seen that in the data Lando, we're happy to continue for now, happy to continue, we can open the lap.
Lewis HAMILTON: OK, give
Engineer: me some info So you're P3 at the moment, so 1.2 to Valtteri P1
Lewis HAMILTON: OK, more info please
Engineer: OK Lewis, so it'll be a Strat 8 for the next lap, Strat 8
Engineer: Strolls the next car, two and a half seconds on a lap I
Lewis HAMILTON: can't see him, I'm awake
Engineer: OK copy, 1.5
Engineer: Check attempts better on this lap, we'd like one more push, one more push then we might consider cooling.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: It's such a ****ing traffic that is, I almost hit the Williams because I couldn't slow down.
Engineer: Checo from attempt side we're happy to do two laps in a row so you could push onto the next lap, Leclerc fast behind nine seconds, Vettel nine ahead, we're happy from the tyre attempt to push on the next lap, they were low, still low
Engineer: practice pit stop there'll be a practice pit stop sorry
Esteban OCON: about that
Engineer: OK, up to you, entire status, let me know.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, fronts are dropping off, rears seem still sort of OK, happy to try another one.
Engineer: OK, copy that.
Sean GELAEL: Uh,
Engineer: in
Sean GELAEL: the end it was a bit of understeer in the high speeds and then the low speeds, just a bit twitching on traction, just a bit twitching on traction, uh, gonna rotate the car enough and then do the traction.
Engineer: Try to put more energy in the tires in the last sector, and we go for push-cold push, tires on the cold side
Charles LECLERC: Tyres are dead anyway, do we have time to do another lap? Because, yeah... They are dead too.
Engineer: Box to slip, child, box to slip.
Engineer: Yeah,
Kimi RAIKKONEN: no creepers on the tires. Boxers no.
Engineer: Can we do a start Kimi? Can you pass through the pit for a start?
Engineer: How was the car with the transition?
Sean GELAEL: Yeah, I felt a bit better in the high speed, but I think the fronts are great, man.
Engineer: Copy that, agreed.
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