Abu Dhabi Grand Prix2019 · Practice 1 team radio

EngineerI'm ready to check exit turn 7, this is where I talk to you a lot in the race

EngineerSo it reminds us to use the brakes firmly.

Daniel RICCIARDOIf it's going to take 10 minutes or something to get these rinks off, I might jump out and go to the toilet, otherwise I'll stay in.

Alexander ALBONHighlands feels pretty good. A little bit of oversteer at low speed.

EngineerHigh

Alexander ALBONspeed feels pretty good.

EngineerCopy, thanks mate.

EngineerSo you have some margin to stress the tires a little bit on the outlet

EngineerJust make sure you do a big break for 8 or 11 just to get the break temps up

EngineerOkay Alex second lap at 39.9, Bottas second push lap at 37.9, he was a tenth quicker on his second push.

EngineerWould suggest a very slow cool down lap to try and get these rear tyre temperatures down

EngineerI think you had the funk so you did the out lap you did funk 2 and you did the big adjuster and you had that for the initial part of the lap I don't think it mattered too much yeah it's too complicated to do all these things yeah understood we need to yeah just think of a smarter way okay

Max VERSTAPPENJust turn 8, out of the corner, the engine braking, it's not great.

Romain GROSJEANStrangely, the feeling is not as bad as the lap time.

Kimi RAIKKONENThe brakes are not good at all.

EngineerCopy.

EngineerThe

Lewis HAMILTONengine feels really slow.

Engineersuggest top right modifier brake balance forwards for turn 8

EngineerIs

Lewis HAMILTONthere another strat mode?

EngineerNo, this next one will be strat 2.

EngineerAnd make sure you've got the car fully over to the left before turn 20. I don't know if there's any more room there

EngineerAnd we can try shape 5, shape 5 for this next lap. Yeah,

Romain GROSJEANno, I don't have enough confidence on the rears. No

Engineerproblem.

Romain GROSJEANMaybe later in the evening, but good reminder.

EngineerOK, so deficits to Bottas. A couple of tenths at turn 8-9, which is where you've noted. A tenth and a half at turn 14, and two tenths at turn 21.

EngineerMain place to find time is turn one. There's a little bit in braking there

Lewis HAMILTONBig separation in front brakes.

EngineerYeah, copy we've seen that

George RUSSELLKai that she felt in a half decent window struggled with the

Engineerrear

EngineerLet's try to put a bit more braking energy on energy back in the front tires on the second cool down

EngineerWe can do a few more of those DRS activations on the next lap after the start from the box.

Carlos SAINZYeah, anyway, there's a lot of track evolution, but this traffic in the last sector is very pain.

Lewis HAMILTONI got lip on, lip on Ok,

Engineercopy

EngineerAnd if another driver default is 0-1, driver default 0-1, so HPP default 0-1.

EngineerSo we'll box the end of the slat, the protection should have cleared.

Lewis HAMILTONChester, still in for knock?

EngineerSo it's just a box, it should be ok.

EngineerI'm

George RUSSELLfeeling a bit of vibration on the outboard side of both front axle, both front tires and the front axle at higher speed.

Alexander ALBONThat feels like a bit of vibration with these size

Romain GROSJEANI'm having fun with the Williams this morning, am I not?

Alexander ALBONThere's so much at the steer

EngineerAnd probably try 6th gear in turn 20.

EngineerCan

Lewis HAMILTONyou make a judgment for my front brakes, the left is still cold.

EngineerWe're just discussing we need to make some slightly bigger changes we think.

EngineerSo Carlos if the car does have too much understeer our advice is to come down on the torque switch down on the torque switch during the lap

Daniel RICCIARDOI think it's

Engineerdown at the back. Yeah, copy that.

Carlos SAINZLike I wasn't pushing but I felt like the truck was very slippery even if I didn't push

EngineerYeah, understood to see that in the data, Carlos We do see flames from out the back of Ricardo's car in the final corner. So probably there was oil

Carlos SAINZYeah, there's soil all over the place.

Pierre GASLYRicardo lost the engine. I put oil everywhere. I'm full of oil

EngineerSo have a look from turn 20 to turn 21, there's likely to be a lot of cement dust so you may want to go offline and keep your tyres clean starting the lap and be cautious finishing your lap.

EngineerCarlos, the track is shown slippery in turn 20 to 21. We've seen them putting cement dust down there. Okay.

EngineerAnd we have RS Magic on, RS Magic on.

EngineerRear tyre temps aren't as low as I expected.

Kimi RAIKKONENYeah, we'll go after this lap.

EngineerOK, you want to push this lap then?

Kimi RAIKKONENYes, I will. Copy.

Engineerthat was down so russell is high field behind he's eight seconds behind we want a faster out lap faster cool down lap checker to keep the temps just call the surface

Carlos SAINZI don't want to cool the tire too much.

EngineerCopy.

Nico HULKENBERGMiroslav,

EngineerI

Nico HULKENBERGbraked in quite a lot on the straight, that's

Engineerwhy

Nico HULKENBERGI'm hard to see Kath.

EngineerCopy that, sorry mate.

Carlos SAINZWhy so much clipping all of a sudden?

Sebastian VETTELYou okay? Yeah, I'm okay.

EngineerAnd give me a quick one, are you happy to keep these brakes for FP2?

Kimi RAIKKONENNo, absolutely not. The front is a lot better, but I still don't have a bite, so I need some proper brakes. It's

Engineerthe

Kimi RAIKKONENlast race, so let's stop saving and put some decent brakes that we can slow down.

EngineerIs that the end of the session? That is unfortunately the end of the session. They're not going to restart it or let us go out on two starts. I'm absolutely dying for ****. I'm going to jump out the cricket and the bullet from the gun. Okay, understood.