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United States Grand Prix 2018: Qualifying team radio

35 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the United States Grand Prix 2018, across 13 drivers. 33 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 7.

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: Is the wind sand on this morning?

    Engineer: Yes it is, Kimi.

  2. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Pierre GASLY: How is the wind?

    Engineer: The wind is medium to low intensity and it is tailwind through the snake.

  3. Brendon HARTLEYToro Rosso

    Engineer: Your lap time 36.9, Gasly 36.4

  4. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: WACA has already had its time disallowed for track limits, so just be careful with that.

  5. Sergey SIROTKINWilliams

    Sergey SIROTKIN: Can you check the blankets for next run, please? I was very cold on the front and hot on the rear just leaving the garage Kind of opposite from what we wanted just to double check if all okay for next one. Yeah, copy that. We'll take a look

  6. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: OK Lewis, so that's a P1, 3.5 tenths to Valtteri P2, so that lap is safe but we'll go again. Ferrari faster on their third lap.

  7. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: There's a piece of debris between 19 and 20 understood

  8. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Something broke, driveshaft or something.

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Okay,

    Engineer: copy. What do I have to do? Mode 1 please, mode 1. I have to get back to the pits. Pull off on the track please Max, pull off please. Made him on the pit entry. Okay, try and roll it back in please, try and roll it back in.

  9. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: So you can take a cool down lap and go again if you wish. It just reports that Verstappen had a bit of damage on his car. He hit some of the exit kerbs turn 15 as you did in the last corner. So just be careful with those big berms. So Lewis just reviewing Verstappen's damage. Probably best to box the end of this lap rather than just take the risk.

  10. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  11. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren

    Engineer: You've got this mate.

  12. Fernando ALONSOMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay Fernando, that is P16, P16, we were 90 milliseconds off.

  13. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Pierre GASLY: The car is good, really good, it's a shame we can't continue because all looked positive and promising.

    Engineer: Hopefully for tomorrow will be good.

  14. Esteban OCONForce India

    Engineer: Tyres are on the warmer side now, tyres are on the warmer side.

  15. Pierre GASLYToro Rosso

    Engineer: So, do I go to do another practice start, right? Yes, we do another one. I do it now, right? No, no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, stop. Okay, go out, go out, go out, go out.

    Pierre GASLY: Do I do the start

    Engineer: or not? Do the start, yes, do the start.

  16. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: OK Lewis, so we'll go for another lap, we will go for another lap. Why is that? Because we're not close, we are too close to the cut-off.

  17. Carlos SAINZRenault

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I got held up by a guy in the last corner.

    Engineer: Yeah, that was Magnussen.

    Carlos SAINZ: Whatever.

  18. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: So now we are P11, so this sector we want to be used, Roman is P7, is two tenths quicker than you, mainly is the last sector, yeah, two tenths in the last sector, the first two sectors are absolutely the same.

  19. Esteban OCONForce India

    Engineer: Cool right rear cool right rear right rear temperature higher

  20. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Ok, pressing button, unfortunately we didn't improve the lap time, so currently we are P12.

  21. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: And abort this lap. Abort this lap.

  22. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: OK Niko, you are P10 and through into Q3, good job mate

  23. Carlos SAINZRenault

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, huge oversteer in the last corner. I don't know why

  24. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: In terms of sectors, we're down a tenth and a half, sector one, you purple middle sector by two tenths, and practically zero, final sector.

  25. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: You guys need to have those fans on the brakes guys

  26. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: An update on the prong wing, no plugging. I think I'm reasonably happy. If you want to give it a go, you can go up one more click. I think I need it for 7, 6 and 7. OK, happy with that. A click up and a new call in one time lap.

  27. Esteban OCONForce India

    Engineer: Tyres on the hot side at the moment, tyres on the hot side.

  28. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari

    Engineer: There's some rain on the back screen. You could feel some drop, but we don't expect shower, Kimi.

  29. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: It's the Vettel V2. Beautiful work, beautiful work. Well mate, that was pretty intense.

  30. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Sebastian VETTEL: Sorry guys, I tried everything six hundreds. Yeah, I had a snap in eight wasn't ideal

  31. Kimi RAIKKONENFerrari

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  32. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Sebastian VETTEL: How much did we miss it? 60,000 60

    Engineer: ,000 And Kimi P3 for a few thousands 32-3 for Kimi And Bottas 33-6 And Ricciardo 33-4

  33. Esteban OCONForce India

    Esteban OCON: Well done to you as well. It was not easy to understand the car for me yesterday, but we did good. Well done.

  34. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: Beautiful, Nico, you are P7, P7, excellent. So Ocon pips us by 0.06 of a second for P6. Grosjean is 0.035 behind, that was fantastic.

    Nico HULKENBERG: Thank you, mate, good job, guys. Well executed.

  35. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: Great job guys, put it into Q3, shame about that last corner. Yeah man. Very strange before the morning, afternoon, just the... Yep. OK, good job anyway, so it's P8. Yeah, I saw that on the board. Yeah. How far from P6? Very small, 0.105. It's right on the limit there, you did a good job OK, so good work, it's P8. We'll get the rest of it tomorrow.

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