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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 7 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Force India · 4 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · McLaren · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Renault · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 2 messages
- Brendon HARTLEY · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Sergey SIROTKIN · Williams · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Is the wind sand on this morning?
Engineer: Yes it is, Kimi.
Pierre GASLY: How is the wind?
Engineer: The wind is medium to low intensity and it is tailwind through the snake.
Engineer: Your lap time 36.9, Gasly 36.4
Engineer: WACA has already had its time disallowed for track limits, so just be careful with that.
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
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.
Engineer: There's a piece of debris between 19 and 20 understood
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.
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.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: You've got this mate.
Engineer: Okay Fernando, that is P16, P16, we were 90 milliseconds off.
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.
Engineer: Tyres are on the warmer side now, tyres are on the warmer side.
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.
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.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I got held up by a guy in the last corner.
Engineer: Yeah, that was Magnussen.
Carlos SAINZ: Whatever.
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.
Engineer: Cool right rear cool right rear right rear temperature higher
Engineer: Ok, pressing button, unfortunately we didn't improve the lap time, so currently we are P12.
Engineer: And abort this lap. Abort this lap.
Engineer: OK Niko, you are P10 and through into Q3, good job mate
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, huge oversteer in the last corner. I don't know why
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.
Lewis HAMILTON: You guys need to have those fans on the brakes guys
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.
Engineer: Tyres on the hot side at the moment, tyres on the hot side.
Engineer: There's some rain on the back screen. You could feel some drop, but we don't expect shower, Kimi.
Engineer: It's the Vettel V2. Beautiful work, beautiful work. Well mate, that was pretty intense.
Sebastian VETTEL: Sorry guys, I tried everything six hundreds. Yeah, I had a snap in eight wasn't ideal
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
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
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.
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.
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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