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United States Grand Prix2018 · Practice 2 team radio

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14:49 to 15:31
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16 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the United States Grand Prix 2018, across 7 drivers. 15 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. 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.

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  1. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso14:49:160:15

    EngineerUpdate on track conditions, worst part this morning was last sector, turn 14-15 How is this so far?

    Brendon HARTLEYYeah, sector's okay at the moment, obviously very wet but not standing water

    EngineerCopy that, keep us posted

  2. Stoffel VANDOORNEMcLaren14:50:050:08

    EngineerStoffel suggest to warm the brakes into turn 11 then recharge off and sock seven sock seven

  3. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso14:51:460:06

    EngineerConsider one step down engine braking for the last sector.

  4. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso14:54:510:21

    Brendon HARTLEYOK, yeah traction is still one of the main issues, I would say I understand mid-corner is not so bad, but mid-corner traction is the bigger problem, actually I had quite a bit of over-rotation mid-corner in the last sector, I think the rear tyres are getting very hot.

    EngineerConfirmed, confirmed.

  5. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso14:59:000:16

    Brendon HARTLEYBut yeah, I would still say main limitation is from the rack, so I'll need to wax it. I understand the corner is definitely there, but I've had to come down on the tools to stabilise the rail.

  6. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso15:03:050:11

    EngineerCharge on, if you want to cool down, how far are we from Inter?

    Brendon HARTLEYYeah we can maybe look at it now, get the cross over

  7. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso15:12:130:25

    EngineerHappy, it's ready for Inter, what do you think about the crossover?

    Brendon HARTLEYI mean there's still a lot of water on track, but yeah I think we should give it a go.

    EngineerCopy that. The Inter is not going to last very long, so I hope it makes sense to wait a bit. We don't have much time left on the clock, we are 18 minutes to check out flag.

    Brendon HARTLEYOK, copy that.

  8. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso15:13:250:09

    EngineerIf the next lap is not coming faster, you can decide to box, just let me know.

    Pierre GASLYOk copy.

  9. Sergey SIROTKINWilliams15:14:380:07

    EngineerAnd go deploy, go deploy. Open the lap, if there's too much standing water we can abort.

  10. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso15:16:560:17

    EngineerOK Pierre, charge on, and we box and keep up the pace in the inlap.

    Pierre GASLYOK,

    EngineerI don't want to damage the tyres if we need to use them though. Yeah, yeah, just don't be too slow.

  11. Sebastian VETTELFerrari15:18:190:05

    EngineerTry to warm up the brakes

  12. Sergey SIROTKINWilliams15:19:410:15

    EngineerOK Sergey, let's try one more, so keep pushing. One more lap.

    Sergey SIROTKINYeah, copy.

    EngineerNo,

    Sergey SIROTKINI think it's going worse and worse. I would rather do a cool lap and try again.

  13. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes15:21:350:10

    Lewis HAMILTONI'm happy to go out, we are not going to learn anything on this, you know that right?

    EngineerWhat is your goal? Let's go!

  14. Sebastian VETTELFerrari15:26:310:11

    EngineerWhat do you think of our conditions?

    Sebastian VETTELOur conditions are fine to continue. These tyres are not great.

  15. Nico HULKENBERGRenault15:31:360:02

    Audio only, no transcript

  16. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes15:31:380:09

    EngineerAnd nice and steady into the box. You

    Lewis HAMILTONknow when you tell me to go steady, I'm not going to go steady.

    EngineerYeah, yep, never, never change these spots.