2013 Monaco Grand Prix team radio transcript

2013 Monaco Grand Prix

29th May 2013, 13:0627th November 2013, 8:44 | Written by Keith Collantine

The Monaco Grand Prix was shaped by tyre strategy and punctuated by a series of crashes. The pit radio transcript below shows how the teams reacted to it.

The transcript of what was broadcast of the drivers’ radio messages below shows how the slow pace dictated by the leading Mercedes pair in the opening laps led many of their rivals to abandon plans to make two pit stops.

Sergio Perez was involved in two disputes over drivers cutting the track: first when he did it while racing his team mate, and later on when Fernando Alonso did the same as Perez tried to pass him. The radio messages show how the drivers argued their cases, well aware that race director Charlie Whiting would be listening in.

One crash brought a temporary stop to the race during which drivers chatted with their race engineers about changing their tyres and making other tweaks to their cars.

The last major incident of the day saw Romain Grosjean run into the back of Daniel Ricciardo. “You can probably guess the driver,” said Ricciardo before climbing from his wrecked Toro Rosso.

2013 Monaco Grand Prix team radio transcript

Lap*	From	To	Message
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Looking at three burnouts out of the last corner but don’t forget the burnout out of five and out of eight are important.
PR	Gianpiero Lambiase	Paul di Resta	The soft runners: Gutierrez and Massa behind, all other cars around you currently have super-soft.
PR	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Bianchi was unable to do the formation lap due to an electrical problem. Jules is stuck there so try to do a start around him if you can.
FL	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Reminder gearbox sync when you can and 20% KERS
FL	Gianpiero Lambiase	Paul di Resta	Paul, continue to work your brakes please, you need to work the brakes, especially the rears.
FL	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	There was a lot of clutch slip.
FL	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Copy that Jenson, we’re looking into it. OK JB discharge KERS to 70% in the tunnel.
FL	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	Still more brake temperature if you can, mate.
FL	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Yellow G1, launch map on.
FL	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Last cars forming up now.
FL	Paul Davison	Jules Bianchi	Mixture one, Jules.
1	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Cancel RS when you can.
2	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	We’re going to want to start looking after these tyres pretty early on so just think about that.
2	Pastor Maldonado	Andrew Murdoch	Look at the front wing.
2	Andrew Murdoch	Pastor Maldonado	Copy that, Pastor.
2	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	Adrian you may have front wing damage, report please.
2	Adrian Sutil	Brad Joyce	It’s still OK.
2	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	Copy that.
3	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	Checo just cut the chicane. He’s got to stop turning in on me, guys.
3	Marco Matassa	Daniel Ricciardo	DRS enabled Daniel.
3	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Yellow ahead, yellow turn ten.
4	Rob Smedley	Felipe Massa	Watch out for debris at the chicane, watch out for debris
4	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	I know we’re both team mates but he cut the chicane, when I was up the inside of him, to keep position.
4	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson this pace is very strong, we know what we need to do.
4	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Clear in turn ten. Tyre temperatures still 11 front, 13 rear.
4	Gianpiero Lambiase	Paul di Resta	Looks like the soft tyre’s coming into its own for the cars ahead. Generally all cars at the same pace at the moment.
5	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Current pace is very good. Just maintain a nice gap to Alonso in front, make sure we’re matching him. We’re currently slightly faster, that’s good, keep the gap between one and two seconds.
6	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So remember the cars are going to back up behind you for this part of the race.
6	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Try and looks after slip a bit more exit of Swimming Pool and last corner.
7	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Diff entry six, mid five for tyre protection.
7	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtterii Bottas	Turn four exit slip a little bit too high, everywhere else good. Try to limit slip exit turn four.
8	Rob Smedley	Felipe Massa	Corner one, corner five, corner eight, think about saving tyres. Corner one, corner five, corner eight, gentle on the throttle there please.
8	Tim Wright	Charles Pic	Front tyres are at the target. Rears are over target five degrees.
9	Paul Davison	Jules Bianchi	Jules we need to go half a percent forwards on brake balance for temperature.
9	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Tyres are OK.
9	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Understood.
9	Simon Rennie	Mark Webber	The gaps are not opening. We need to look after these tyres. Recommend a two-second gap.
9	Mark Webber	Simon Rennie	OK mate.
10	Charles Pic	Tim Wright	Pic stopped by the pit entrance with a fire on lap eight. Problem, engine problem.
10	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	This pace is pretty slow for the leaders so not many gaps opening up at the moment.
10	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	Just so I know, can I go straight on at the chicane to keep position?
11	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	We’re going to have to give the place up to Jenson. The FIA have told us we must give the place up to Jenson. Do it now. Do it before turn 12. Just be careful of Sutil. And yellow flags turn 17 and 18, stationary car.
11	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Alonso’s pace is not very good, let’s see if we can put him under some pressure.
12	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Perez let Button past on lap nine. Thank you for doing that. The field is still really quite bunched up so we’ll see how the strategy evolves. At the moment we are sticking to plan A target lap. I’ll keep you updated as the race goes on. Looks like Alonso in front’s driving quite slowly to look after his tyres and that’s meaning that everyone’s bunched up behind you. There are still yellows at turn 18. Just for your info the having to let Jenson past was due to the incident at turn ten. It doesn’t affect our race, we can still get a great result here, let’s stay focused, let’s keep doing the strategy and tyre management we discussed. We’re still in a great position.
13	Rob Smedley	Felipe Massa	OK start thinking about target plus ten to fifteen.
13	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Yellow G5, quickest way to the end.
13	Simon Rennie	Mark Webber	We need to do more saving tyres on traction.
14	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	Let’s concentrate a bit with the rear tyres, turn 18 and 19.
14	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	How are the brakes?
14	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	All temperatures are good. All currently high but all are good.
15	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Give me some advanced notice when I need to ramp up my speed because it’s not going to be so easy to go quickly straight away.
15	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy that Nico, we’ll give you plenty of warning.
16	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	From the data we think the tyres are performing to plan or better. What’s your opinion, are the tyres OK still?
16	Sergio Perez	Mark Temple	Yes.
16	Gianpiero Lambiase	Paul di Resta	Di Resta pitted on lap nine and came out 30.5s behind Webber. In the next five laps he gained nine seconds on them. So we’re now coming into the Red Bulls’ pit windows.
17	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	By lap 16 Rosberg was 1.89s ahead of Hamilton and 4.16s ahead of Vettel. Sixth-placed Alonso had fallen 11.19s behind, but began to gain from that point. Your pace management is very good, we’re happy with the gaps you’re creating.
17	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	The field is still pretty bunched up behind you. We are monioring the gaps and obviously we are monitoring the tyres. Well let you know where we are but for the moment just keep going for our Plan A target lap.
17	Sergio Perez	Mark Temple	If we can anticipate the people in front, will be good.
17	Paul Davison	Jules Bianchi	We’re looking at at least four more laps on these tyres, Jules. Max just did a 22.0.
18	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	You’re doing a good job, traction metrics are now looking very good. Turn four, turn eight could do with a little bit.
19	Rob Smedley	Felipe Massa	Fernando backed off from Kimi in front, looks like he was saving the tyres, now he’s putting in pink lap times. Chilton is the car behind you, he’s two seconds behind. I would suggest that you back off from Gutierrez in front and start thinking about the tyres.
19	Rob Smedley	Felipe Massa	For corner eight put the KERS later for less wheelspin. Di Resta the car behind you.
19	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	This is good, let’s stay with Alonso.
20	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	We can see left rear tyre performance are jumping so you need to look after that as much as possible please.
20	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	The problem is that I don’t get the fronts working.
20	Nico Hulkenberg	Marco Schupbach	Is it possible that the caliper temp’s a bit too high? Brakes don’t feel so good.
20	Marco Schupbach	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy, Nico. They are fine, they are fine.
21	Francesco Nenci	Esteban Gutierrez	You are four tenths quicker than Grosjean in sector one.
21	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So just starting to ramp the pace up. Targetting minus point four delta time, not immediate but over the next few laps.
21	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	We can start to ramp the pace up. Target 20.9, last lap 21.6.
22	Daniel Ricciardo	Marco Matassa	Ricciardo was one of four drivers who started on softs instead of super-softs. He pitted on lap 22. Really starting to struggle with the rear.
22	Marco Matassa	Daniel Ricciardo	Copy, Daniel.
22	Sergio Perez	Mark Temple	Just tell me when it’s time to push
22	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Understood, Checo. The field is still quite bunched up de there aren’t good gaps at the moment so just keep doing what you’re doing, managing the tyres and the pace. I’ll let you know when it’s time to start pushing.
23	Paul Davison	Jules Bianchi	Box this lap Jules we’ll be torque five, clutch five.
23	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Push now Max, Jules is coming in we need to push and build a gap push now this lap. Jules has a problem so he is in early.
23	Marco Matassa	Daniel Ricciardo	Watch the yellow line Daniel, pump the brakes and reset your switches, reset differential switches.
24	Andrew Murdoch	Pastor Maldonado	We’ll be racing Ricciardo coming from behind just watch for Ricciardo coming from behind.
25	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	High 21s for the first five laps.
25	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Bottas dropped almost ten seconds behind Hulkenberg giving Webber space to drop into after his pit stop, which comes on lap 25. We would like to up the pace again which is reacting to things around so -0.5, not immediate but just bring it up.
25	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	We can pick up the pace a little bit more. Target -0.6 on your dash. Traction 2,500, same corners as before, just try to look after them as best you can.
26	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	See if you can push up to Perez now.
27	Mark Slade	Kimi Raikkonen	Box this lap, please confirm.
27	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Box this lap.
27	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	Box this lap.
27	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	You are in your Safety Car window now. Webber has just pitted. We’re targeting -0.3 on delta time this lap.
27	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	We now need to pick the pace up. Target -1.1 on your dash. Mix three when you can.
28	Mark Slade	Kimi Raikkonen	Raikkonen pitted on lap 26. Vettel is yet to stop and pushing. He’s going to be close to us when he stops. But remember you’ve got to look after the rear tyres, please.
29	Mark Slade	Kimi Raikkonen	We need to push hard now if we can.
29	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Target four, pushing now.
29	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Box this lap, confirm.
29	Sergio Perez	Mark Temple	Box this lap.
29	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Box, box, box. Torque map one and box.
30	Juan Pablo Ramirez	Giedo van der Garde	Yellow flag turn one, double yellow.
31	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	The Safety Car is deployed on lap 31 after Felipe Massa’s crash at Sainte Devote. That’s good pace, Max, the 21.5s. But look after the rears, if you need a bit slower, let us know.
32	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Everybody has held position. We obviously will close up to the leaders but no one has particularly gain. Order is as it was F5. Green F5 please and use KERS when you can.
32	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	We are running plan A, need to keep temperature in the front tyres.
32	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	Did you do the planned front wing or not, or did we change it?
32	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	We left the front wing, we can use the switches.
33	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	We are P7 at the moment. Checo is behind us in P8 followed by Sutil and Vergne. Immediately in front of us is Alonso and Raikkonen and we’re all on prime [soft] tyres and all about the same age.
33	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Remember Safety Car Line One rule: no overtaking before that line.
33	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	We need to get these tyre temps up so work those brakes and lots of weaving.
34	Gianpiero Lambiase	Paul di Resta	All cars ahead on new soft tyres Paul. Everyone around you has pitted. Hulkenberg behind, Vergne ahead. Ricciardo and Grosjean in P13 and P14 on super-soft tyres with 11 and 3 laps respectively.
34	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	When the Safety Car lights go out, you control the pace, OK?
35	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	This time round if you just make sure you make a visual note where the Safety Car Line is between turn 18 and 19. When the Safety Car comes in it is possible to overtake as soon as you cross that line.
35	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Lapped cars are going to overtake.
35	Simon Rennie	Mark Webber	Use 20% KERS this lap.
35	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian your tyres were marginal on the last stint. Wear limited. Take that into account into the next stint. It’ll be difficult.
35	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Can we have green KERS F6. Your brakes are still colder than Jenson’s so lets get as much energy into them as we can. Keep warming those brakes.
36	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	Brake temperatures are now cold, Adrian, so you can afford to pick those up. Tyre temperatures have lost a lot of tyre temperature now as well so we can try and increase those. Engine temperatures look a bit more under control now.
37	Marco Schupbach	Nico Hulkenberg	Main thing will be to watch Di Resta. He has old tyres so his restart will be difficult, and then not lose the train to Vergne.
37	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	We expect the Safety Car to go past potentially once more but let’s stay alert just in case. Remember to use KERS, as soon as the Safety Car comes in you can use KERS out of turn 19 all the way to the line. Let’s use a little bit now to keep temperatures in.
37	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Tyre temperatures are now very cold, very important to get some weaving in.
37	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	We expect the Safety Car to be staying out. Nico you had 60% remaining on the rear tyres and 50% on front left so you’re evenly worn. We expect it to go green this lap so really put temperature in. Brakes are now better so brake barance forwards.
38	Mark Slade	Kimi Raikkonen	The Safety Car comes in at the end of lap 38. We are expecting the restart quite soon now. Your tyre temperatures are low.
38	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Safety Car in this lap.
38	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	Tyre pressures are still low so caution.
39	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Let’s be careful of grain risk in these first laps.
40	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian, Rosberg is not marginal on wear at all. Just maintain position. As big a gap as you need.
41	Marco Schupbach	Nico Hulkenberg	Recovery seven, brake balance +4.
41	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Remember looking after these tyres, they’re going to do 47 laps.
41	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Webber ahead six lap old tyres, you’ve got to do 46 more laps on these.
41	Francesco Nenci	Esteban Gutierrez	DRS is enabled
42	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Fuel is good to the end.
42	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Our pace difference to the Red Bulls is much better at the end of the stint so we need to look after these tyres.
43	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Let’s use these tyres to stay with Bottas. You did the same time as Bottas last lap. Let’s use these tyres to stay with Bottas and take advantage of our track position.
43	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Is everything OK with the nose? I tapped Fernando at the hairpin.
43	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	Yep Jenson everything looks OK. And brake balance forwards.
44	Simon Rennie	Mark Webber	Hamilton being told to look after the tyres to attack us at the end of the race. Recommend look after the rear tyres more where Hamilton is not a threat.
46	Sergio Perez	Mark Temple	Perez tried to pass Alonso on the inside at the chicane on lap 44 but Alonso cut the chicane and stayed ahead. Fernando cut the chicane.
46	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Understood Checo, we saw it.
46	Sergio Perez	Mark Temple	He has to give me the position.
46	Fernando Alonso	Andrea Stella	I had to avoid the collision
46	Andrea Stella	Fernando Alonso	Yep it was clear to avoid the collision and to avoid the yellow kerb which would be a safety problem. We’ll check.
46	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Maldonado and Chilton collided at Tabac on lap 45, causing the race to be stopped. And it’s red flag so come back to the start/finish line. Caution in turn ten and twelve – sorry, twelve and thirteen, red flag. Come to the grid.
46	Andrew Murdoch	Pastor Maldonado	Are you OK, Pastor?
46	Pastor Maldonado	Andrew Murdoch	I’m OK.
46	Esteban Gutierrez	Francesco Nenci	I get out of the car now?
46	Francesco Nenci	Esteban Gutierrez	Stay there because we have to get the cooling fan out, then we’ll pull you out.
46	Esteban Gutierrez	Francesco Nenci	Copy.
46	Paul Davison	Jules Bianchi	Jules you can jump out, we’ll get a ten minute warning before the restart.
46	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton fell behind both Red Bulls when he made his pit stop on lap 31. Can’t believe we lost position to the two Red Bulls. Sorry about that.
46	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis there’s 33 laps remaining you’ve got time to jump out of the car should you want, we’ll get a ten minute warning.
46	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	I think they’re going to get things sorted pretty quickly. They will give use a ten minute call, we’ll just keep you in the car until we’re ready to go. And I think what we’ll do is I’ll tell you what set we’re going to go on. There’s 33 laps remaining so I’m sure we can make it to the end on these tyres. We’ll just manage our pace and watch everyone around us.
46	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	We’ll get a ten-minute countdown for the restart. We haven’t been told of a restart time yet. They’re fixing that barrier. Which tyres do you think you would want to do the rest of the race on?
46	Adrian Sutil	Brad Joyce	How many laps until the end?
46	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	33 laps to the end of the race.
46	Adrian Sutil	Brad Joyce	The softs gave up quite early, I had the feeling that the rear was starting to go off very quick. I’m stuck in so bad traffic it’s difficult now to do anything.
46	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	Do you mean the super-softs that you were on at the beginning or the softs that we put on after the?��?�
46	Adrian Sutil	Brad Joyce	The super-softs. The first set were not so good. These tyres felt quite good. We should start on a new set, I think.
46	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	OK Adrian but bearing in mind that the track is in a lot better condition now and the restart will be behind the Safety car as well.
46	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Ferrari have been told Alonso has to give the place back to you.
46	Jean-Eric Vergne	Phil Charles	How many laps do we do behind the Safety Car?
46	Phil Charles	Jean-Eric Vergne	I’m not sure yet, Jev, we’ll update you when you’re running.
46	Gianpiero Lambiase	Paul di Resta	We’re thinking Vergne super-soft, Hulkenberg and Ricciardo alongside and behind on softs.
46	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	Can we go a bit on the front wing? Can we do that now? Yeah I had too much understeer on the option [super-soft] run so another turn would be good. Yes please. Dave, what tyres do we think other people are going to use?
46	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Checo definitely option [super-soft] and we expect everyone else will also be.
46	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Can we go mix two. When we restart we’ll use the same procedure as a normal formation lap, so using RS modes with the pit limiter on and then cancel the pit limiter when you cross the line.
46	Nico Hulkenberg	Marco Schupbach	Will the Safety Car come straight in or will it do two laps?
46	Marco Schupbach	Nico Hulkenberg	The Safety Car is supposed to do one lap if everything goes as per plan.
46	Nico Hulkenberg	Marco Schupbach	It comes in at the end of this lap?
46	Marco Schupbach	Nico Hulkenberg	Correct.
46	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	We believe both Red Bulls are on the option [super-soft] tyres also. Both Red Bulls were wear-limited in the first stint on the option tyre. They’ve got to do five more laps on this set that they’ve got now.
46	Simon Rennie	Mark Webber	Remember this lap will be behind the Safety Car. The Safety Car will come in at the end of this lap. You can overtake from SC1. Once the race settles down we need to look afte the tyres to the end, OK. I’d recommend leaving a two second gap, watch your over-slip.
47	Andrea Stella	Fernando Alonso	We will give the position back behind the Safety Car. So do it straight away basically.
47	Fernando Alonso	Andrea Stella	OK I’ll do it after turn one.
47	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	The race restarts behind the Safety Car which pulled in at the end of lap 46. Safety Car is in this lap, Lewis. You’re racing from the Safety Car line so brake balance for the first corner and get some tyre temperature where you can.
48	Mark Slade	Kimi Raikkonen	KERS mode seven.
48	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Vettel is on option [super-soft] tyres, scrubbed option like you. Caution in turn 12, may be slippy.
49	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Chilton was given a penalty for causing the collision with Maldonado. In now Max, in now for a drive-through penalty.
49	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Cars in front except Raikkonen are on option [super-soft], Raikkonen is on the prime [soft]. There may be an opportunity to attack him while his tyres are cold in these first laps,
49	Paul Davison	Jules Bianchi	There’s 29 more laps, we’ll be going to the end.
49	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Brake temperatures still a little bit on the cold side at the moment.
50	Francesco Nenci	Esteban Gutierrez	DRS enabled, recovery eight where possible.
50	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Gap to Vettel just over one second, temperatures 11 front, 13 rear.
51	Paul Davison	Jules Bianchi	We need to maintain that gap to Van der Garde in front, we know he has very bad [degradation].
51	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	28 laps to go. We’re in a good, strong position here on these tyres. Let’s just make sure that they last to the end, just be careful of the rear tyres.
51	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	You’re 14 seconds behind Jules, he did a 20.6, let’s try and catch him, 27 laps to go.
52	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Hamilton is pushing pretty hard behind Mark, you might need all of your tyres towards the end.
52	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	It’s all in the first sector, Jules half a second quicker in the first sector. You’re doing great though, you’re catching him.
53	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Temperatures are 11 front and 13 rear.
53	Juan Pablo Ramirez	Giedo van der Garde	You need to take care of the tyres. You need to slow down the pace. Take care of the rear tyres.
54	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	That was 1.5 quicker than Jules, great lap, you’re catching Jules and Van der Garde.
54	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	This level of tyre management is very good, this will definitely get is to the end, let’s keep going.
54	Kimi Raikkonen	Mark Slade	Perez tried to pass Raikkonen at the chicane on lap 53 but ran wide, forcing both to cut the corner. That idiot would have crashed into me if I wouldn’t have gone straight.
54	Mark Slade	Kimi Raikkonen	Understood Kimi.
55	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	24 laps remaining.
55	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Think about traction, 3,800 that lap.
55	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	I’m trying to get past, man.
55	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Agree with you Lewis, you just need the tyres at the end.
55	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Good job, that was 0.8 quicker than Jules, you’re catching him.
56	Esteban Gutierrez	Francesco Nenci	I don’t think we will be able to finish with these tyres.
56	Francesco Nenci	Esteban Gutierrez	Copy.
56	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	KERS recovery four, you’re definitely catching Jules and Van der Garde.
56	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Gap to Vettel three seconds.
57	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	We’re getting indication that other teams are going to struggle with their tyres towards the end of the race. We should be in a good, strong position then so let’s make sure we’ve got good tyres at the end. You’re currntly in P6, this is really good. We need to make sure we’re able to attack those weaker cars at the end.
57	Juan Pablo Ramirez	Giedo van der Garde	One second slower per lap, Giedo, please.
59	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Have a think about looking after these tyres, fronts as well as rears.
59	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Just for more info, Sutil is the car behind, he’s been attacking and overtaking cars on the inside of Loews. So just be careful when you go through there, he may attack you in the same way.
59	Francesco Nenci	Esteban Gutierrez	Sutil passed two cars at turn five – turn six, sorry. Ah, I don’t know if you can try, Esteban. But make sure you don’t get any penalty, so, I know it’s difficult. Everybody’s trying to go to the end so we have to try as well.
60	Phil Charles	Jean-Eric Vergne	Release four. Good work JEV, keep your concentration, you’re doing a good job.
60	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	Perez has been given a message to defend to you at Loews.
61	Jules Bianchi	Paul Davison	Something happened to the front-left. I lost the brake I think at the front left.
61	Paul Davison	Jules Bianchi	Understood. Just go P0 with the car please, mate.
61	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Gap to Vettel four seconds, just caution, brake temperatures low left-hand side of the car at the moment, could do with more brake energy.
62	Marco Schupbach	Nico Hulkenberg	Rears seem to go back a bit, you’re doing well, look after those rears.
64	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Let’s try and look after these tyres. We need to improve in turns 15, 18 and 19, also turn eight.
64	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	I’ve got a lot of pressure from behind and these guys in front are very quick.
64	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK copy that Lewis. You’re got Raikkonen behind who’s on the pime [soft] tyre, he’s going to be a threat.
64	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	Grosjean and Ricciardo collided at the chicane on lap 64. The Safety Car is deployed again. OK Romain?
64	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Yes, he braked very early in the middle, I was surprised.
64	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	OK.
64	Daniel Ricciardo	Marco Matassa	Been hit.
64	Marco Matassa	Daniel Ricciardo	Are you OK Daniel?
64	Daniel Ricciardo	Marco Matassa	Yep, OK.
64	Marco Matassa	Daniel Ricciardo	What happened?
64	Daniel Ricciardo	Marco Matassa	You can probably guess the driver. Looks like he probably misjudged it, went over the top of me.
64	Marco Matassa	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel sorry for that. Anyway, well done, good effort, nice race.
64	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	KERS mode four and cool the car please. We are going to retire.
65	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	Tyres were OK. Energy looked a little higher than we’d like but this Safety Car’s helping as well.
65	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	It can be important as well a little bit of list and coast now. Brake temperatures reacting, a little bit of lift and coast to coo lthe calipers and cool the engine a little bit.
65	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Let’s get these temps back up.
65	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	Tyre temperatures and brake temperatures are now low so if you could get some in there.
66	Mark Slade	Kimi Raikkonen	We’re losing water from the engine because it’s too hot.
66	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	You’ve still got some margin on the brakes. You want to push the brake balance forwards now as well that front left’s getting a little bit cold.
66	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Just a reminder obviously Sutil is behind he’s going to be attacking as I said before. He got past Alonso and Jenson successfully at Loews hairpin so just be careful there. He was using the inside line.
66	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	The Safety Car came in at the end of lap 66. Brakes will be cold as will tyres.
67	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Tyre temperatures still on the cold side especially front.
68	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	My left front’s graiing heavily.
68	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis you’ve got 12 laps remaining.
68	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Front temperatures now brake temperatures are low.
69	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	You’re -20 front, -20 rear. Temps are building, keep pushing.
69	Mark Slade	Kimi Raikkonen	Hamilton is complaining of left-hand front graining.
72	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Perez tried to pass Raikkonen at the chicane on lap 69 but the pair made contact and Perez touched the barrier. How’s the car?
72	Sergio Perez	Mark Temple	It’s OK.
72	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Understood. Eight laps to go at the end of this lap.
72	Simon Rennie	Mark Webber	Seven laps to go. Think about diff two if you have low-speed understeer.
72	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	Can we have brake balance rearward, front brakes are getting a bit hot.
73	Gianpiero Lambiase	Paul di Resta	Try to pull out from Vergne to cool the engine as best you can.
73	Fernando Alonso	Andrea Stella	Another piece off Perez is giving me loss of grip.
73	Andrea Stella	Fernando Alonso	OK it looks the piece off Perez on our front wing went away and now the car is back to normal.
74	Brad Joyce	Adrian Sutil	Just look after the traction, we’ve five laps to go now.
75	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Four more laps to go, tyres are good, we can have four qualifying laps here.
75	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Gap to Vettel increased to four-and-a-half seconds.
76	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Save all your KERS for 11, try and use it all out of 11.
76	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Three laps to go, push for that point.
76	Sergio Perez	Mark Temple	I struggle to brake the car.
77	Mark Temple	Sergio Perez	We have a brake system problem. Let’s pull into the pits, we need to retire, the brakes are broken?��?� OK, understood, park the car, switch the engine off. That’s a real shame that was a really good effort up through that point, Checo. It’s just a bit unfortunate, I think. Never mind, we’ll debrief properly when you get back.
77	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Vettel set the fastest lap of the race on the penultimate lap, a 1’16.577, which was over two seconds faster than any other lap he did during the race. OK two laps to go. Bring it home.
77	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Alonso P7, Raikkonen out of the points.
77	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Raikkonen had to pit with a puncture with eight laps remaining. Lapping over four seconds quicker than those around him, he caught and passed Gutierrez, Bottas and Hulkenberg in the final two laps. Raikkonen just passed Gutierrez so look out for Raikkonen behind but push to get past Hulk.
77	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian you know the score, don’t take any risks.
78	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Alright, that’s enough. You’re not getting any more points for that.
78	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	But satisfaction rather than going slow for 77 laps.
78	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	There’s no satisfaction for us in that one though. You might enjoy yourself, we don’t like it.
78	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Let’s discuss this after the race.
VL	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Rosberg crossed the finishing line first on lap 78 to win the race. You’ve done it, well done mate!
VL	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Yes, come on! Monaco Grand Prix! Thank you so much, thank you so much. The car was really awesome today. This is very special for me.
VL	Ross Brawn	Nico Rosberg	Very well done Nico. I can’t imagine you driving any better than today. Fantastic job. With all the events going on you managed it perfectly. Great job.

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113 comments on “2013 Monaco Grand Prix team radio transcript”

Juan Pablo Heidfeld (@juan-pablo-heidfeld-1)
29th May 2013, 13:19

Very interesting article!

There seems to be a bit of a mix up on laps 78 between Vettel and Rocky. I think there are the wrong way round @keithcollantine
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 13:43
  
  @juan-pablo-heidfeld-1 Thanks for that, got it.
  1. sato113 (@sato113)
    29th May 2013, 17:33
    
    where did you get the transcript?
    i know there’s a very useful twitter user (f1pitradio?) who compiles the extra radio chats into a video.
    1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      29th May 2013, 19:35
      
      @sato113 I transcribed it. Some of it during the race, which was posted on F1 Fanatic Live on Twitter.
      1. sato113 (@sato113)
        29th May 2013, 20:36
        
        @keithcollantine have you heard of this guy? https://twitter.com/F1PitRadio
        
        who complies the team radio in videos like this?
        http://vimeo.com/67115320
        (password: thatidiot)
2. JCost (@jcost)
  29th May 2013, 15:29
  
  But satisfaction rather than going slow for 77 laps.
  
  It means DC is not the only one who thinks Monaco GP was rubish…
3. JackL
  29th May 2013, 17:36
  
  @keithcollantine that was brilliant!!! How did you get this? Can this be a regular fixture on F1Fanatic after every race please?
gilles (@gilles)
29th May 2013, 13:20

Wow… Love this new feature. Thanks @keithcollantine
1. andae23 (@andae23)
  29th May 2013, 13:32
  
  +1
2. DanimalHouse (@thrillerwa09)
  29th May 2013, 16:33
  
  +2
3. dodge5847 (@)
  29th May 2013, 18:00
  
  +3, yes thanks @keithcollantine
4. stefano (@alfa145)
  29th May 2013, 21:11
  
  +4
5. McGregski (@mcgregski)
  30th May 2013, 10:24
  
  @keithcollantine This is awesome!
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
29th May 2013, 13:23

Excellent new feature @keithcollantine !! Very cool !!
Sounak Chakrabarty (@sonkky)
29th May 2013, 13:26

Looks like Perez talks too much and has to be Hand Guided every Lap on the Radio as Button continues his Whinning..
Surprisingly Webber hardly talks..

:-) Riccardio: You can probably guess the Driver.. #COTD
gilles (@gilles)
29th May 2013, 13:29

When second placed driver gets this message on lap 40 of 78, you know there’s something really really wrong with F1:
Sebastian, Rosberg is not marginal on wear at all. Just maintain position. As big a gap as you need.
Give up after HALF a race, make yourself a gap and drive around :(((
1. JS (@js)
  29th May 2013, 13:59
  
  @gilles Yup, not very exciting indeed…
2. JS (@js)
  29th May 2013, 14:01
  
  Yup, not very exciting indeed… @gilles
Liam McShane (@)
29th May 2013, 13:29

“You can probably guess the driver.” lol
Imre (@f1mre)
29th May 2013, 13:30

You can probably guess the driver. Looks like he probably misjudged it, went over the top of me.

:D
Timothy Katz (@timothykatz)
29th May 2013, 13:36

Fascinating stuff! Is this the first time the transcripts have been made public? This isn’t a complete transcription though, is it? Only there’s just six messages to or from Webber and there must be more – even if they are only ‘Box this lap’ type of stuff. I wonder if the ones with rude words have been edited out completely.
I didn’t realise that the pit engineers micro-managed the drivers quite so much, as in “Jules we need to go half a percent forwards on brake balance for temperature.”
Half a percent!
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 13:44
  
  @timothykatz This is just what was broadcast, there will be loads more that wasn’t.
  1. Dizzy
    29th May 2013, 13:50
    
    Is this transcript taken from the extra team radio played on the pit lane channel?
    1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      29th May 2013, 17:57
      
      Most of it is. There are a few messages which were played on the main feed but not on the pit lane channel.
danYdvito
29th May 2013, 13:37

“Just for more info, Sutil is the car behind, he’s been attacking and overtaking cars on the inside of Loews. So just be careful when you go through there, he may attack you in the same way.”

“Perez has been given a message to defend to you at Loews.”

Wow, didn’t really knew they have access to radio from other teams. Cool :D
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 13:44
  
  Well they can certainly hear the same broadcasts as us!
Force Maikel (@force-maikel)
29th May 2013, 13:37

To think some people some regard F1 Fanatic as amateuristic. Fantastic article @keithcollantine
1. gilles (@gilles)
  29th May 2013, 13:41
  
  Show me one, I’ll make sure he’ll never speak again:))
the_sigman (@sigman1998)
29th May 2013, 13:47

Nice one! What does ”copy” mean?
1. Sri Harsha (@harsha)
  29th May 2013, 13:49
  
  I guess it means They understood what the Other was saying.
2. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 13:49
  
  @sigman1998 It’s used to mean “I understand”.
3. eljueta (@eljueta)
  29th May 2013, 14:09
  
  You need to watch the family guy sketch with “over”
  1. the_sigman (@sigman1998)
    29th May 2013, 14:16
    
    Thanks everyone!
deiwi (@deiwi)
29th May 2013, 13:52

Haha, classic Kimi. This is such a great feature. Thank you Keith!
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
29th May 2013, 13:55

What I found particularly interesting was the Perez one on lap 12. It was quite a long message. It must have been edited together from more than one, as I can’t imagine him being talked to for an entire lap.
1. Mark (@mwardf1)
  29th May 2013, 15:44
  
  I had this playing on the Sky app and it came through exactly as you have it above. Not sure if they get edited together or not on that but I’ve certainly never heard a radio message that long before.
2. donum
  29th May 2013, 19:14
  
  Also on SKY UK they had not everything in the broadcast, it was cutted:
  
  Guillaume Rocquelin: Alright, that’s enouogh. You’re not getting any more points for that.
  Sebastian Vettel: But satisfaction ~~rather than going slow for 77 laps~~.
  
  The crowd shouldn’t head that. :P
3. John Bergqvist (@)
  30th May 2013, 9:57
  
  It seemed quite sequential, usually i can tell if there’s gaps in the transmission, and it’s been spliced together. Did you get all this from the FOM Pitlane channel by the way, or from the main World Feed, or both?
JS (@js)
29th May 2013, 13:56

@keithcollantine Very interesting, thanks for that.

There’s a confusion for the messages between F. Alonso and A. Costa on lap 46: first, Alonso says
“I had to avoid the collision” to Costa and then Costa answers to Alonso.
1. JS (@js)
  29th May 2013, 13:57
  
  Oups, Costa = Stella of course, sorry for going back in time!
2. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 14:02
  
  @js Changed that one too.
jh1806 (@jh1806)
29th May 2013, 14:08

What does the bold denote on the messages?
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 14:10
  
  @jh1806 Just any particularly interesting messages I thought were worth highlighting. Otherwise it would be a massive block of indigestible text.
  1. ajokay (@)
    30th May 2013, 9:53
    
    @jh1806 @keithcollantine Hah, I thought it meant the driver/engineer was shouting.
eljueta (@eljueta)
29th May 2013, 14:14

@keithcollantine Very interesting article, thank you.

“You can probably guess the driver.” – Should be quote of the GP :D
jh1806 (@jh1806)
29th May 2013, 14:19

Vettel’s messages at the end are quite interesting. I wonder if a lot of the other drivers also get ‘bored’ driving to a delta time rather than racing flat out for most of (if not all of) the race…
1. Timothy Katz (@timothykatz)
  29th May 2013, 15:21
  
  Absolutely. I thought that was quite revealing, particularly the last bit “Let’s discuss this after the race.”
2. MNM101 (@mnm101)
  29th May 2013, 20:54
  
  @jh1806 Also the way FOM played it in the race,”but satisfaction” it sounded like a clever cheeky retort, but the rest of it shows that he was actually just frustrated from driving slowly, which seems they were trying to mask
  1. dragoll (@dragoll)
    30th May 2013, 5:58
    
    @mnm101 I don’t think FOM are going out of their way to manipulate it, but they do pick and choose what to broadcast probably on an pertinent topic at the time… I can imagine that it would be extremely hectic for whoever decides what to broadcast vs what not to broadcast.
    
    Media though, kings of misrepresenting the full story. We’re just lucky to have @keithcollantine who puts this together for us.
    
    Love it Keith…
Damien Blackman (@hyakuyagami)
29th May 2013, 14:21

Really enjoyed this article, hopefully we’ll see more like it :D
caci_99
29th May 2013, 14:22

This transcript is a very nice surprise. Very pleased, and really good job @keithcollantine
Thank you Keith.
Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
29th May 2013, 14:25

Great feature! I don’t have access to the radio broadcast so good to see all the messages here.

Two questions:

Lap 27 to ROS: “You are in your Safety Car window now.” Does this mean that he should pit immediately if there is a safety car?

Lap 29 to VET: “Box, box, box.” Was this before the yellows came on for the Massa crash? I am just wondering whether VET came in anyway or whether it was a reaction to a likely safety car.
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 15:45
  
  @mike-dee
  
  Does this mean that he should pit immediately if there is a safety car?
  
  The information that the Safety Car is about to be deployed or is likely to be deployed would most likely come to the driver through his race engineer anyway, so the call to come into the pits would be made at that point. But in case of radio failure it would make a driver aware that it’s safe and advisable for him to pit if the Safety Car comes out but he can’t hear his team any more.
  
  Was this before the yellows came on for the Massa crash?
  
  The message was broadcast about four seconds before the yellow flags came out for Massa’s crash. If you have a look at the race chart you can see Webber had been out of the pits for a few laps his lap times were improving (the pace from a new set of tyres doesn’t arrive instantly at Monaco) and the cars between him and Vettel were pitting so they had to bring Vettel in.
  1. Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
    29th May 2013, 16:44
    
    Thanks! I wonder whether Vettel would have had the time to come into the pits in reaction to the Massa crash as well (had they not chosen to pit in that lap anyway). I just found it strange at the time that Vettel came in, but Rosberg and Hamilton did not.
Romesh82 (@romesh82)
29th May 2013, 14:28

one supeb articale.fantastic
Bleu (@bleu)
29th May 2013, 14:30

With the safety car deployed twice (plus resuming after the stoppage) and red flag thrown once I just wondered that teams don’t inform their drivers what the cause was. After Grosjean/Ricciardo crash something like “safety car for debris after the tunnel” for the driver who couldn’t see what happened.
tmekt (@tmekt)
29th May 2013, 14:38

Raikkonen just passed Gutierrez so look out for Raikkonen behind but push to get past Hulk.

I can definitely understand why Bottas thought Kimi was lapping him, very unclear message in that sense.

Nice feature, by the way, even though it clearly doesn’t have all the messages. There was for example I think two or three for Kimi and I’m sure that, though he claims to be knowing what he’s doing, he’ll need more information during the race. A good read still, thanks!
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
29th May 2013, 15:05

And from Silverstone GP2 will have team radio as well so we’ll get to hear 25 drivers complaining about Johnny Cecotto Jnr.
1. katederby (@katederby)
  29th May 2013, 16:14
  
  And if the GP2 driver’s post race twitter feed is anything to go by they should be a lot of fun.
  1. BasCB (@bascb)
    30th May 2013, 7:45
    
    Yes, that was a very good opening up, who knows, it might have contributed to the desicion @katederby!
2. dragoll (@dragoll)
  30th May 2013, 6:02
  
  @keithcollantine I burst out laughing at work, lots of strange looks from people.
  
  I’ve got an image of the CIA monitoring radio traffic all over the world and in their command centre, all their alerts are going off as code name Johnny Cecotto Jnr flashes up on their screens with subject matter “major threat” is highlighted in bold…
TribalTalker (@tribaltalker)
29th May 2013, 15:16

@keithcollantine
Typo in the names for this exchange:
Lap 23 – Paul Davison to Jules Bianchi:
“Push now Max, Jules is coming in we need to push and build a gap push now this lap. Jules has a problem so he is in early.”

Great new feature – very interesting. Thanks.
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 15:34
  
  @tribaltalker Changed it, thanks.
Sri Harsha (@harsha)
29th May 2013, 15:51

Great Feature @keithcollantine
I wish we get this for FP and Q sessions too for next rounds. It will be More Interesting to know about how they are feeling about circuit and how they improve their Car .
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 15:57
  
  @harsha It took a while to produce this so whether doing one for each race can be justified will depend on how popular it is. But people seem to like it so far which is always encouraging.
  
  Of course if anyone wants to help out writing this sort of thing that’s always welcome:
  
  Write an article for F1 Fanatic
  1. BasCB (@bascb)
    30th May 2013, 7:47
    
    I definitely hope you can make it a regular feature @keithcollantine, although its clear that it takes a huge effort to write out all the messages, I remember when we had the research about what kind of things are said and broadcast and how much time it took to not every single transmission!
Sherlock
29th May 2013, 15:55

So Prinz Vettel can command his enginer “Let’s discuss it afterwards…”

Nice attitude.
1. TribalTalker (@tribaltalker)
  29th May 2013, 16:06
  
  He did what he was told for 70-odd laps, probably champing at the bit the whole way.
  Yes the team worries that he’ll break the car, but on the other hand a happy driver is a better driver.
  I wouldn’t want to be his engineer, mind.
2. beneboy (@beneboy)
  29th May 2013, 16:49
  
  Personally I see no problem in what Vettel said to his engineer, if I were in Vettel’s position and my engineer was giving me the naughty boy routine during the last couple of laps around Monaco he’d have got far worse said to him than “Let’s discuss it later”.
  The poor lad had just spent the entire afternoon maintaining a gap to Hamilton & Rosberg at his teams request and then they tell him off for having the temerity to drive an F1 car quickly for a couple of laps…
  1. JimG (@jimg)
    29th May 2013, 17:36
    
    The poor lad is paid quite handsomely to drive for the team, not for himself. If he bursts a tyre doing one of his glory runs he won’t look quite so clever.
    
    Maybe you need this kind of arrogance to become a champion, but it makes him look like a spoiled brat.
    1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      29th May 2013, 18:00
      
      @jimg I think it says rather more about those who won’t give him credit for having a racing driver’s instincts but will pillory him for saying something that was a fraction as obnoxious as what Raikkonen came out with in Abu Dhabi last year.
      1. beneboy (@beneboy)
        29th May 2013, 18:09
        
        @keithcollantine
        Couldn’t agree more, I’m not one of Vettel’s fanboys but I don’t understand the amount of vitriol some people direct at him, especially in cases like this when all he’s done “wrong” is drive a lap or two at proper racing speed after spending the rest of the race in tire conservation mode.
        
        When I started watching F1 drivers were praised for driving as fast as they could, these days they’re pilloried for it, especially if they’re a young German with 3 WDC’s in the trophy cabinet.
      2. Dwight_js
        29th May 2013, 18:20
        
        Agreed. The discussion around here is usually quite measured and reasonable. Those posting ridiculous criticism based on their blind hatred should stick to the BBC comments section.
      3. katederby (@katederby)
        29th May 2013, 18:21
        
        Agree with that, @keith, I didn’t like the lack of respect shown by Raikkonen to his race engineer (who coincidentally or not, doesn’t work at Lotus any more). But Vettel doesn’t show much respect for his team either, as it’s clear they have told him not to do unnecessary fastest laps like he does. And I’m sure all the F1 drivers are as frustrated by the slow pace they’re having to maintain.
      4. Timothy Katz (@timothykatz)
        29th May 2013, 18:44
        
        Yes, absolutely right. I think his last conversation with the pits shows remarkable patience and maturity in not telling Rocquelin where he can do with his delta time. Vettel (and many others) tooled around all afternoon playing ‘must preserve the tyres’ which is a boring game.
      5. JimG (@jimg)
        29th May 2013, 23:26
        
        I think it says rather more about those who won’t give him credit for having a racing driver’s instincts but will pillory him for saying something that was a fraction as obnoxious as what Raikkonen came out with in Abu Dhabi last year.
        
        I’ll give Vettel full credit for having a racer’s instincts, but I think there’s more to being a great racing driver than just instincts.
        
        I expect that all drivers say regrettable things in the heat of the moment, but trying for the fastest lap is not a moment of madness, it’s a sustained effort and apparently against the advice of his team. Similar to going against team orders not to overtake Webber it gives me the impression of an immature driver who is thinking of himself more than the team. And I don’t care who else has also done it, it doesn’t make it right.
        
        While I accept that this selfishness seems to be part of the psychology of the most successful drivers it still makes them less likeable to me.
        
        Like they care what I think :-)
        
        Finally, thanks for this feature @keithcollantine, it’s fascinating to see more of what goes on behind the scenes.
      6. BasCB (@bascb)
        30th May 2013, 7:51
        
        I agree with that @keithcollantine. It does show nicely what racer he is, and it puts a nice perspective on him ignoring all those calls to slow down (and what for really?) because the team wanted to be overly carefull. Including slowing down and staying put in Malaysia this year.
        
        I think its good that the driver shows HE is the one feeling the car and knowing what it can do. And its showing the real Vettel in between all the PR, so to me its only good to hear.
        Very mature that he was not going to discuss during the race though, from past experience he must know there would be a good chance that it would be played out on tv!
3. Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
  29th May 2013, 20:33
  
  There’s no problem with collecting the fastest lap if he’s got the tyres I don’t think; it’s part of Vettel’s character that he likes the statistics.
  
  He’s not stupid though: he can drive and he knows not to take huge risks when there’s a good points haul at stake.
nackavich (@nackavich)
29th May 2013, 16:17

Awesome feature @keithcollantine thanks a lot! Although I think there may be a mixup between Perez and his engineer on lap 46, talking about the Alonso incident?
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 18:02
  
  @nackavich Thanks, they’re the right way around now.
Julien (@jlracing)
29th May 2013, 16:21

Very nice article.
Although it’s a pity there isn’t a radio conversation from Kimi when Perez hit him.
I think that would have been hilarious
^Mo^
29th May 2013, 16:46

@keithcollantine great addition to the site! It really gives a proper insight. I really don’t like how the FOM (or whoever decides) just releases some radio messages on-air; it never gives you the full story and sometimes it’s out of context.
Todfod (@todfod)
29th May 2013, 17:06

Button whined in almost every radio transmission starting from the formation lap. I’m surprised his race engineer hasn’t blown his brains out
1. Aced (@)
  29th May 2013, 17:50
  
  I laughed at the “blown his brains out” part because that was funny I’ll give you that.
  
  But it seems to me like you don’t really understand the relationship a driver has with their engineer. Button is just more vocal about a lot of things and a lot easier to communicate with and that helps tremendously. Keep in mind that it’s the engineers who set up the car(or tell drivers what to do at certain situations during a race) and not the actual driver, and they do that based on the drivers feedback on how the car handles and the data they collect.
  
  I can’t imagine what a nightmare it has to be for a race engineer to have to work with someone like Raikkonen for example.
  
  Again, communicating with your engineer =/= whining. I can’t actually figure out why people would think that a driver is more interested in finding excuses rather than asking for help from their engineer when they’re communicating. That logic…
  1. LexBlair (@lexblair)
    29th May 2013, 18:19
    
    It’s Todford commenting about Button….. there is nothing to understand there lol…
    1. Todfod (@todfod)
      30th May 2013, 9:14
      
      True. But you cannot deny that out of all the drivers, he had the most to complain about as usual
      1. BasCB (@bascb)
        30th May 2013, 11:02
        
        only we really do not know that @todfod, just that he is the driver the FOM played most radio messages of that kind on TV.
Latvian (@latvian)
29th May 2013, 17:14

excellent article!! I hope that this is gonna be a tradition after every race :) big thank you!
SeaHorse (@seahorse)
29th May 2013, 17:55

An excellent article combining all of the broadcast radio conversation. Really a nice experience reading all these. Hats off to the efforts yo have put in to produce this one @keithcollantine

Hope this turns into a regular feature of each race weekend :)
mantresx (@mantresx)
29th May 2013, 18:22

This feature is great! Hope it stays for the rest of the season, the only problem is that the FOM doesn’t transmit messages with bad language, but I really hope this work encourages them to put out official transcripts in the future, keep it up @keithcollantine
PeterG
29th May 2013, 18:23

just proved how much tyre management is going on in f1 in 2013.

a lot of those messages are drivers been told to watch the tyres, been told how to watch there tyres.

think vettel’s comment at the end about having to drive slow for 77 laps says everything about just how utterly wrong the current tyre situation is.
Diceman (@diceman)
29th May 2013, 18:35

Fantastic article, thanks for that! Hopefully we get to read these after every race from now on. Ricciardo’s “You can probably guess the driver” really made my day :D
Craig Woollard (@craig-o)
29th May 2013, 18:35

Fantastic feature! It’s interesting to hear the contrasting comments of both sides of an argument and to see who keeps their head and who doesn’t in a race. Sutil is so calm!
ajokay (@)
29th May 2013, 19:27

I’m glad they don’t broadcast more radio on the TV feed. Just shows how incredibly clinical and lifeless it’s all become.
1. BasCB (@bascb)
  30th May 2013, 8:47
  
  It pretty much confirms my thoughts, that the real issue is far too much Data being available on the pit-wall to allow the drivers to run their race. If you look at all the “you are a fraction this and that from your teammate, slow, speed, adjust dial xyz etc to improve” that is to me far more of an issue than the tyres (or even DRS, or fuellevels) as such.
  
  What if we just let Vettel feel the car and the tyres and come in when he thinks its needed, and post fast laps when its needed? He certainly seems to know when the car can take it. And let Hamilton try and get past, he knows full well that he can gain position, but might suffer later, but isn’t that drivers skill? Much the same for the rest of them. IMO that would make the racing far better.
  1. ajokay (@)
    30th May 2013, 10:35
    
    Amen to that.
LisaLDN
29th May 2013, 19:41

I really hope you will be posting the radio transcript after the Canada race too! Great feature :D
M.M.C (@mmc)
29th May 2013, 20:35

Kieth, do you plan on this being a regular feature or is it just a one off? I hope it’s regular, because it gives great insight.

Thanks
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  29th May 2013, 20:55
  
  @mmc Glad you like it – as for where there’ll be more, see here.
elfmanftw
29th May 2013, 21:08

Maldonado and Chilton collided at Rascasse on lap 45,
I belive they crashed at tabac not rasacasse
Alec (@vonhoff)
29th May 2013, 21:24

Great feature. Also, love ricciardos comment :P
Joao (@johnmilk)
29th May 2013, 21:36

F1 summed up in a couple of sentences :

Guillaume Rocquelin Sebastian Vettel Vettel set the fastest lap of the race on the penultimate lap, a 1’16.577, which was over two seconds faster than any other lap he did during the race.
“OK two laps to go. Bring it home.”

I never had seen a GP with so much drama and so little race, it felt like a soap opera, what a shame
Mariano (@mariano)
29th May 2013, 22:08

Many thanks @keithcollantine for such a great feature. It’s very useful to have a better understanding of what’s going on during a race.

Thanks again!
ubik
29th May 2013, 22:15

The most interesting article i have ever read. Fascinating, wish to have it every time. Bravo Keith.
the bad news are that seeing every live lap times and the radio comments, we can fairly say that we are not talking about a sprint, but a pirelli marathon.
Dawib (@dawib)
29th May 2013, 22:17

Smedley’s message to Massa on lap 13 says it all about the race: “OK start thinking about target plus ten to fifteen.”
Could have been such a good race if it wasn’t the two Mercedes dictating the pace….
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
29th May 2013, 22:48

By the way if you need to you can link to individual laps like so:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2013/05/29/2013-monaco-grand-prix-team-radio/#40
1. BasCB (@bascb)
  30th May 2013, 11:03
  
  Ow, that is really neat @keithcollantine!
GT_Racer
29th May 2013, 22:51

If you like this article you should follow this guy on Twitter as he watches the Pits channel during the sessions & post’s the quotes, He also post’s video & now audio edits of all the team radio comm’s from sessions-

https://twitter.com/F1PitRadio
Adam Blocker (@blockwall2)
30th May 2013, 3:14

Brilliant feature @keithcollantine! These kind of unique articles, along with the daily round-ups which elegantly summarize the days news, are what makes this site so special. Keep up the good work!
sebsronnie (@sebsronnie)
30th May 2013, 11:21

WOW! What a fantastic feature! Thanks @keithcollantine
Chaz (@chaz)
31st May 2013, 4:14

Fantastic post! Nice one F1F!
Patrickl (@patrickl)
31st May 2013, 20:47

Wow that’s quite cool. Funny how the teams echo to their drivers what the other teams tell their drivers (or
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
4th June 2013, 8:48

An extra fragment of Lewis Hamilton’s radio which wasn’t broadcast originally can be heard on FOM’s Monaco GP highlights video:

Hamilton: How did I get passed by two cars?
Bonnington: Looks like we lost time on the entry.
Hamilton: You told me to have a six second gap.

There’s also an extra bit of Raikkonen’s radio about Perez calling him “that (censored) idiot”.