United States Grand Prix 2018: Practice 3 team radio
15 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the United States Grand Prix 2018, across 6 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Lewis HAMILTON: A lot of traffic around me.
Engineer: How was the balance?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Pretty low grip, more on the nose, so yeah, lack of rear grip more than the front.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Tires are cold. Locked up.
Engineer: Okay. Copy.
Engineer: OK, something just hit my head, so let me check the car. Box, box, through the pit lane for practice start. OK, have a good look at the halo and the front of the car. Yes, the guys are ready, we will look at the car.
Lewis HAMILTON: That grip is very poor.
Engineer: OK, copy that last message.
Engineer: Alonso is just playing games at the moment and you can use DRS if you need to just protect against Alonso
Engineer: Okay, nine laps in for Hamilton, still on a 40.1, so degradation for the Mercedes on both those compounds looks low.
Lewis HAMILTON: All these guys that are right in front of me they shouldn't be there if I came in too quick I would have taken everyone out
Engineer: Okay, copy that Lewis try to do something about that. Just feedback is 10 short. But yeah, I'm sure you are Yeah, focusing on the guys in front
Engineer: Okay, think about slower in 8 to be faster through turn 9, might be a better compromise, slower in 8 to be faster through 9.
Engineer: Take a loose, that's P4 at the moment.
Lewis HAMILTON: There's some big bollards, big bumps on the exit there.
Engineer: OK copy, I'll have a look.
Engineer: I
Fernando ALONSO: think we need less engine braking for 10, 11, 10, 16 probably, what do you think?
Engineer: Yep we're just discussing that now, stand by we'll get back to you, the DRS is working correctly so you can deactivate that as normal.
Engineer: Try to warm up the surface in the last sector if you can, front tyres are too cold.
Engineer: I
Fernando ALONSO: nearly hit the rear jackman, so I stopped too much on the right because I cannot go deep to the left.
Engineer: Ciao John, what happened?
Brendon HARTLEY: Yep, I sped the car
Engineer: Copy that, keep me posted on the car, we'll try to go for another one
Brendon HARTLEY: I have a feeling I'll hit big flat spots, but we can try
Engineer: We are checking
Max VERSTAPPEN: I went white
Engineer: Ok, reverse on, reverse on and bulks max, bulks
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