2014 Austrian Grand Prix team radio transcript

2014 Austrian Grand Prix

25th June 2014, 15:29 | Written by Keith Collantine

Several times this year the team radio broadcasts have given us revealing insights into the growing rivalry between the two Mercedes drivers as they fight for a championship which will surely be won by one of them.

That was true in Austria as well – but with one interesting difference. Nico Rosberg wanted a break from the endless stream of information while he worked his way to the front while his team mate stalked him from behind.

Far more messages were heard from Lewis Hamilton’s side of the garage as he tried to make up for a poor qualifying position while grappling with overheating brakes. A lengthy discussion involving him and his engineers before the beginning of the race revealed Mercedes were using less aggressive engine braking settings in Austria.

This had consequences for both drivers in the race as their brakes, which were taking more of the strain of slowing the cars, became too hot. Hamilton was getting warning about this as early as lap ten. And although Rosberg had the same problem, Hamilton found it impaired his ability to gain on his team mate when the two were running at the front of the field in the closing laps.

The pair hit the front after displacing the Williams drivers who had locked out the front row of the grid. Felipe Massa dropped to fourth having been leading before his first pit stop, and in the final stint his team were concerned about covering off the threat from Alonso, who made his final pit stop late.

Williams succeeded in keeping Alonso at bay, but other teams’ radio communications did not go so smoothly. Nico Hulkenberg had to asked for a clarification when Force India issued team orders using somewhat euphemistic language.

But that was nothing compared to the mess at Sauber. The team had already made one disastrous mistake by sending Esteban Gutierrez out of his pit box with one wheel not properly attached. They then made matters worse by telling their driver to stop – but broadcasting the instruction to his team mate instead.

An unhappy Adrian Sutil grumbled about the time he lost getting on the brakes before realising the message was meant for the other Sauber.

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2014 Austrian Grand Prix team radio transcript

Lap*	From	To	Message
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Do you need a flap adjust? Let us know, stop in the box if you do.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Half a turn out, please.
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK so down half a turn please, Rob. Down half a turn.
PR	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	[Unclear] good I think the clutch torque transfer [unclear] as on the first start. Also the initial bite felt less although it went deeper.
PR	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that, Nico.
PR	Bernie Collins	Jenson Button	And Jenson more cooling please, and test your drinks.
PR	Jenson Button	Bernie Collins	OK.
PR	Bernie Collins	Jenson Button	And the guys will pick you up at the back of the grid.
PR	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Do you need a front wing adjust?
PR	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	No feels OK. Bit of understeer in low speed but high speed low speed’s quite OK. I’ll try one more lap.
PR	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Copy that.
PR	Marcus Ericsson	Angel Baena	My lap is not too bad, it’s a bit understeery high speed but I think it’s just because the tyre’s going to come in the front end so I think the balance we should keep.
PR	Angel Baena	Marcus Ericsson	OK Marcus I’m on my way to the grid. I’ll see you in about two, three minutes.
PR	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK this time to the grid, to the grid.
PR	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	At the moment rears out of low speed is a little bit weak. So traction’s a bit poor out of two. But then through the high speed quite a bit of understeer for now.
PR	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK understood. So that might be warm-up. Round to the grid, please, round to the grid. Can you still smell fuel, question?
PR	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	A little bit. It’s toned down.
PR	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK understood. When you stop, be no bite points. P1 for ten seconds and then P0 please.
PR			Between engineers on Vergne’s radio OK Olly front flap minus one half.
PR			Copy.
PR			Between engineers on Raikkonen’s radio A couple of drivers have complained about high-speed understeer on the way to the grid. I don’t know what Kimi said. But for your information, a few other people complained about it.
PR			He said that the balance was OK for him. But we take off half on the grid.
PR			OK.
PR			Between engineers on Alonso’s radio. OK comments from Fernando: No front locking. Much less than yesterday. Front was a bit better today. The grip seems to be OK. Fernando asked if we should change the track balance pre-load because we don’t have front locking. Let me know, it was just a suggestion, nothing like he wants to do that.
PR			I was exactly about to tell you, Andrea, I would like to do multi-function BBM position three, we are in two, we went rearward yesterday, I will come back to the standard. So multi-function BBM position three. For the corner two I see some rear locking. I think the right switch will help in that situation.
PR	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Grosjean is starting from the pit lane. What do you think, when we start the car should I move into the maximum line and then maybe I can see the big screen?
PR	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	Yeah if you can move to that side slot where you did the practice start. Basically wherever the best grip is.
PR	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Ah it’s in front of you is… later you go, better it is. So if you go almost where the car is, just before the line, that’s where it is
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK so in terms of aero balance Nico is half a turn more forwards on aero balance. But he is two front bars stiffer. So more forward on mechanical, more understeer mechanically, but he has half a turn more aero balance. He is reporting car is quite oversteery at the moment. That’s where he’s at.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Yep. So the feeling on that run, on those out-laps, is that brake balance is too far forward.
PR	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	Affirm, you were up at plus two then.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	Yeah so I think for the first run I need to bring it back to what I did in the first session, so I’m going to bring it back to zero.
PR	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	Affirm, bring it back to zero. B-mig four I think is OK, yep.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	And I’ll do the bite point two, erm EB [engine braking] two, sorry.
PR	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	Affirm. And can we go strat mode one please on the grid. You’ll be going to strat mode five after you’ve done the bite-point find on the grid. That’s on the real grid.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	OK and just for the first corner, come back on the EB [engine braking]? Er, sorry, come back on the b-bal [brake balance]? For rearwards bias, first two corners.
PR	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	Depends on how you feel the tyre is warming up. If you feel the fronts are nice and warm and they feel like they’re waring up easily, then yes come back one. But if not… Er, sorry, then you can stay where… If the fronts are slow to warm up then yeah come back to minus one.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	OK.
PR	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	I think for the first couple of stops it’s not a bad idea to come back to EB [engine braking] three. Don’t forget these EB levels are lower than normal. So EB two that you’ve got now is sort of EB one-and-a-half in the past. So EB three would have been EB two at other races and on Friday.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	Agreed, yeah. Now it’s pushing on quite a lot so…
FL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel three cars on [soft tyres] of interest: Button 11th, Maldonado 13th and Perez in 16th [actually 15th], OK? Three cars on [soft].
FL	Unknown	Sebastian Vettel	Vettel suffered a power unit failure on the second lap, at this point Red Bull seem to have had no indication it was about to happen. Engine is good, gearbox is good and battery is good.
FL	Bernie Collins	Jenson Button	OK Jenson we still need eight. And can we have Yellow G3 and HPB mid position.
1	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	And cancel RS, cancel RS.
3	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Charge ten, charge ten. Yellow, Sebastian is slow on the right-hand side down to turn three. Vettel is slow on the right-hand side.
4	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	I lost drive, I lost drive. Tell me what to do please. Please tell me what to do.
4	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	We’re looking at it, we’re looking at it.
4	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	I have no throttle response.
4	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Understood, we’re looking at it mate. Cars are in turn one.
4	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Engine still running, please tell me what to do.
4	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Turn it off, just pull over and turn it off. Pull over and turn it off. Cars back straight now coming at you.
4	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	OK, for some reason I got drive again.
7	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Do not use overtake. Do not use the overtake button at all, do not press overtake.
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	OK I haven’t pressed it.
7	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Yeah OK understood, we see you haven’t pressed it yet. But do not press it for the rest of the race, please.
7	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	OK Sebastian so you know we think the failure is due to the use of the overtake button so do not use overtake. OK Sebastian, go racing, go racing.
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Rears are struggling.
7	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that Nico, copy that.
8	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Keep looking after the rear-left, we have to look after the rear-left tyre. Try diff entry four.
8	Kimi Raikkonen	David Lloyd	No response heard. Is my DRS working because I’m very close and I don’t get by.
9	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	We need to keep looking after the rear-left exit turns one, two and three. Obviously keep short-shifting where possible.
9	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	OK Checo super-soft tyres runners suffering with rear graining. OK so just manage the tyres at the moment. Checo, information: Ricciardo has been instructed not to use the overtake button and his DRS button may not we working. So possibility ahead.
10	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis front brakes again over limit. Just have a think about the compromises.
10	Adrian Sutil	Marco Schupbach	My graining is getting really bad.
10	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	Copy Adrian, keep pushing.
11	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	OK racing Ricciardo and Dany ahead, Grosjean behind.
12	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	This wasn’t the only time Rosberg asked for less feedback during the race. Close the gap to Bottas.
12	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Stop talking to me Tony, please.
12	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Strat two, cancel magic, RS.
12	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Felipe, any flap adjust for the next tyre set?
12	Felipe Massa	Andrew Murdoch	At the moment is OK, I don’t feel any understeer which is causing me a problem.
13	Craig Gardiner	Esteban Gutierrez	Kill the tyres Esteban and box this lap. We go to [soft]. Front wing by default will be plus two, confirm.
13	Esteban Gutierrez	Craig Gardiner	Copy.
14	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK Felipe we’ll box, we’ll box at the end of this lap.
14	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So box, box.
14	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Give me feedback on tyres, do you want a front wing adjust for the next stop.
14	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Tyres still got distance but not that many laps left, maximum five. No flap adjust.
14	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Copy that, we’re still gapping to those that we’re going to drop out near, so this is looking good.
15	Adrian Sutil	Marco Schupbach	Sauber released Gutierrez from his pit box too soon and the message telling him to stop was accidentally broadcast to Sutil, who slowed down before being told to get going again. Yeah I lost seven seconds for nothing.
15	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	Adrian, understood, we are sorry, keep pushing.
16	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Raikkonen in the pits. So the cars that have stopped are around you. Button ahead on [softs], Maldonado behind on [super-softs].
16	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	We need a half-a-second a lap Nico so just try to push up to Magnussen if you can.
18	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Checo whilst we’re not losing time to Rosberg then I’m happy to keep him behind if you can. But do not compromise your race to keep Rosberg behind, OK? Just keep pushing as you are.
18	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel we need to keep up the pace. Cars ahead still haven’t stopped, they’re going to be close to us at the pit lane exit.
18	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	x I appreciate you’re in a bit of a limbo because essentially we’re waiting for a Safety Car. Just do your pace without destroying the tyres, that’s the best advice I can give you.
19	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	x OK Lewis, two laps with front brakes over limit, do what you can to manage.
19	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Just can’t lean on the front tyres. Every time I try to get into the corner they just wash away.
20	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson we are looking at target minus three.
20	Francesco Nenci	Jules Bianchi	We have hot front brake temperatures. Brake balance minus four clicks on the dash.
21	Angel Baena	Marcus Ericsson	Kamui braking later two, three and five. You can improve exit nine.
21	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis you can have a few stabs with overtake but use it wisely. We aren’t safe.
22	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	What times are the chasing pack doing?
22	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Jenson, Mid-to-high 14s. Kevin last lap 1’14.6.
22	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis just think about those front brakes again, they are going up.
23	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis let’s lay off the overtake for a bit. We’ll just get that ESS up, get this battery charge back up.
23	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	I have plenty of pace. Can I charge it more?
23	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Yeah we’ll look into it Lewis, we are on the limit though at the moment.
23	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	OK Max let’s try and use the tyre to keep Kobayashi behind, use the tyre. We’ll adjust our plan and use the tyre.
24	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis I know the position you’re in but if you can do a little bit of lift-and-coast to help these brakes that would help.
24	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Checo just give me a front wing adjust for the next stop, please.
24	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	I’m OK to keep it.
24	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Copy.
25	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson Yellow G3 and fuel zero. If the tyres will take it, fuel zero, target minus three.
25	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So you’re well inside the limit now on front brakes.
26	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	So Checo looking to take everything out of this set at the moment, OK?
27	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	So big problems with the rear tyres.
27	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	Which tyre?
27	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	Rear-right.
27	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	Copy Dany, copy for rear-right.
27	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	I just skipped the turn. [Unclear] No brakes, no brakes. I lost the brake pedal. I have no brakes.
28	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	We have a big problem with the rear end. It’s huge.
28	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	OK understood, understood.
28	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Roll more speed into turn five and six.
29	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	How’s the balance?
29	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Stabilised. Front’s not getting any worse.
29	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton wants help to get past Bottas but if Mercedes bring him in before Rosberg they might jump him past his team mate. Need some help, guys, to get past the next car.
29	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis we’re looking into it. We need to manage it strategically.
31	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Vettel collided with Gutierrez. OK I damaged my front wing.
31	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Understood.
31	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Box, box.
32	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Rosberg ahead looks slow. OK we need half percent further forwards for brake temperatures.
33	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	There a huge difference on the straight.
33	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Copy that Lewis. We’ll have a look, see if there’s anything else we can do.
33	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Brake info please.
33	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Last lap you were over target. Not by much. It doesn’t take much management.
34	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Optimum two, opt-two. More performance.
35	Unknown	Sergio Perez	Checo this is [unclear]. Just to confirm you are managing this pace, yeah, this is not degradation we’re seeing?
35	Sergio Perez	Unknown	Nico in front is a problem. Can you get him out of my way?
35	Unknown	Sergio Perez	Just push up to his DRS and I think you’ll find a way past. OK? Push up to his DRS.
35	Sergio Perez	Unknown	After a brief pause. Losing a lot of time with Nico.
35	Unknown	Sergio Perez	I think you should DRS him now. I think you’ll DRS him into turn three.
36	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Perez is in your DRS, Perez in your DRS. Perez on a different strategy to you.
36	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Clarify that message for me.
36	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that, Nico. Message for you: Perez in your DRS.
36	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Just let me know do you want me to let past or not?
36	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that yes, strategy different, let him past.
37	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian box this lap, we’re going to retire the car. Box, box, we’re retiring the car.
38	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	You’re doing a good job Nico, you’re doing a good job. The lap times are looking good for the age of tyre.
39	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	HPP eleven to one, push hard now.
39	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis it’s hammer time.
39	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Start to close the gap down to the cars in front.
40	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Increase your pace if you can. Push up to Rosberg.
40	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	The tyres can’t take many laps more if I push more.
40	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	That’s fine, push.
40	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Push hard now.
40	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Do not repeat.
40	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Not immediately after the previous message. Box, box, box.
42	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Rosberg leaves the pits. So it’s important to look after these tyres just to get them to the end of the race. Rear temperatures 14, fronts 15.5.
43	David Lloyd	Kimi Raikkonen	Warning turn eight, warning turn eight. Do not go off the track.
44	Felipe Massa	Andrew Murdoch	Massa wants to pit. [Unclear]
44	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	No, stay out, stay out for the minute, we’re just managing the traffic behind so stay out.
44	Rob Smedley	Andrew Murdoch	Yeah we won’t let him get in there, in a window where we can jump us.
44	Felipe Massa	Andrew Murdoch	I have no rear tyres any more.
44	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Copy that Felipe, understood.
44	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So you have 30 laps remaining so looking after the tyres. Lewis next car behind, 2.5 seconds.
44	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	So who am I racing, what do I have to do?
44	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	You have to keep Bottas out of your window. He should be out of your window and then you’re racing Lewis to the end.
44	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Brakes are OK, yeah?
44	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Yeah brakes are under control now plenty safe at the moment so just keep managing them.
45	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK Felipe we need you to push at the minute, we need you to push to match Alonso. OK go engine mode position four and we need to be targetting low 13s on lap time.
46	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	OK push now, no lift off. Push now for four fuel laps.
47	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	So you’re currently in position four. Alonso is needing but he needs to stop again so you’re reality position three. Just get to the end on this set of tyres, everything looking good. Tyre management looks good at the moment, Valtteri. Brakes, everything, all under control.
47	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	No response heard. What’s the gap to the car behind?
47	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Now’s the time to push please Checo.
48	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Perez did need to pit again, as at this point he had not yet used the super-soft tyres. We think Perez needs to stop again.
48	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	OK come on Checo come on mate, now’s the time.
49	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK Felipe we’ve cleared Alonso. We need engine mode position six.
49	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	How is the pace at the moment?
49	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	It’s stable. We’re very close to Hulk’s pit window but we also have Ricciardo behind that we need to watch. We need a bit more if we can. We’re matching their lap times. They’re obviously on fresher tyres. But anything more that you can give.
50	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK keep looking after the rear tyres. We’ll need these tyres at the end to protect from Alonso. So Alonso’s four seconds behind at the minute.
50	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So gap at 1.4. Nico a tenth faster sectors two and three.
50	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Does he have a brake issue like me or not?
50	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	You are both in the same position so it will need management. So losing a little bit of time in turn six and eight. Just have a think about your diff high speed.
51	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson we are in the window.
52	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	The end of the last stint rear tyres were looking a little better for you so may have an opportunity at the end of this race.
52	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Right Nico we need to push up to Magnussen now if we can. This is a critical stage in the race. Fast as you can to the end now.
53	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Pace?
53	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So just losing out six and seven. Gap is at 1.6. And brakes are good. So apex speed five and six, just Nico carrying a little more.
54	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson we are going for our target lap.
55	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Same lap times as Magnussen or losing a tenth at the moment, OK. At the moment we’re in Hulk’s pit window, so we will come out ahead of Hulk, so we’ll be pushing to fight Magnussen at the end of the race. Just keep pushing on this set.
55	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	What sort of times is Kimi doing?
55	David Lloyd	Kimi Raikkonen	We are racing Button, we need two tenths per lap.
55	Kimi Raikkonen	David Lloyd	Yeah give me some more power.
55	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Very similar lap times to you. Kimi last lap 13.7.
56	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Racing Hulk on the exit. Magnussen will be six seconds ahead.
56	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So front left brake over limit. Just have a think about that B-bal.
57	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	Jenson immediately in front is the only car that needs to pit. Grosjean is a backmarker. We are effectively P6, Perez is +5.5 on new [super-softs].
58	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Brakes now on the limit. Losing a little bit on braking two and three but that may be management.
59	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Box this lap.
60	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	Identified it as something to do with tyre warm-up [unclear].
61	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Blue flags, blue flags!
61	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	We hear you, Lewis.
61	Jean-Eric Vergne	Xevi Pujolar	I lost all my brakes. The brakes are gone.
62	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK Alonso is in DRS range. Look after the tyres on exit. We have a higher top speed than him. Should be OK.
63	Francesco Nenci	Jules Bianchi	He’s on [soft], don’t forget.
64	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	Stop using top light into turn three.
64	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Guys give me some updates on where I can be quicker.
64	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Yeah copy that Lewis we’ll just get a couple of clean laps, mostly traffic that’s been hurting you. Mainly turns five and six, we’ll give you more information soon. So braking at turn two and three, where you are managing, and turn five and six.
65	Adrian Sutil	Marco Schupbach	For some reason the balance changed, I can’t get it under control.
66	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Perez passes Magnussen on the run to turn two. OK Checo so I’m going to leave this to you. When you think you are close enough and ready for a pass on Magnussen you will have two laps in succession in mode two. But use it wisely, OK? Don’t use it until you really think you’re close enough.
66	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Nice job Checo, nice job mate. So let’s pull clear of the DRS and then we’ll bring this home.
68	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So remember slower in for faster exits, generally.
69	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Alonso twelve seconds ahead with four laps to go. You are one second faster per lap but it’s not enough. Not enough at this stage Checo, don’t worry. Just bring it home, mate.
69	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis four laps remaining and you are strat six to the end.
69	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So Nico stay in strat six, both cars will stay in strat six to the end.
70	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Can I use overtake?
70	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Nico you can use overtake.
71	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Final lap. Seven seconds to the car in front and six to the car behind.
71	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis you are free to use overtake but stay in strat six. Strat six, just keep managing these brakes. So you can use overtake to the end of the race, that gap’s at 1.1, nearly within DRS. OK Lewis other car’s using overtake, suggest you do the same.
VL	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Great job Nico, great job. Go strat one and pick up rubber. Good job.
VL	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Woohoo! Yeah! Come on!
VL	Paddy Lowe	Nico Rosberg	Great job Nico, fantastic win.
VL	Nico Rosberg	Paddy Lowe	Thank you Paddy, awesome stuff.
VL	Paddy Lowe	Nico Rosberg	That was a difficult one.
VL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	No response heard. Great stuff there Lewis that was an excellent recovery, excellent recovery mate. Really well driven, well managed, know it was a tough one.
VL	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Yes P3 Valtteri, great job. Mega job. Unbelievable drive.
VL	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Yes! Thank you guys! This means so much to me. Thank you. Everyone of you are so good guys, working so hard. We went the right way. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
VL	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Great job Felipe, great job, P4. Good job from your side managing the tyres to the end.
VL	Rob Smedley	Felipe Massa	Well done Felipe that was a good race. I know you probably will be slightly disappointed with that but they were good points. Well done, thank you for driving very sensibly as well in that last stint, we needed it. Well done mate. Good lad.
VL	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Really well done Checo, really pleased for you mate. P6 and the pace to challenge for a podium. Well done.
VL	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	Let’s keep doing what we’re doing. And let’s avoid the other mistakes that hurt us in quali. Good job.
VL	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	I think you did a really good job managing the tyres through there. Unfortunately the [super-soft] hurt us at the start which meant we weren’t able to race the Force India in front and missed out on sixth. But I think you did a very good job managing the tyres and had very good pace, and did well yesterday, so well done.
VL	Kevin Magnussen	Mark Temple	Well done guys, well done.
VL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Nice job on the last lap there mate. We finished P8 after all that hard work.
VL	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Apologies for turn one. Just got hung out. My mistake.
VL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK mate yeah we saw you went over the sausage [kerb] on exit. Nice job on the last lap. I thought you were never going to use mode seven.
VL	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Better late than never!
VL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Yeah.
VL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	P9 I’m afraid. It seemed like the rear-left tyre just lost temperature so we struggled on the rear-left it looks like on that sint. Final stint wasn’t as good as our middle stint, I’m afraid.
VL	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Yeah but generally, I mean, where’s our pace gone? I compare to Checo, also visually he’s got a much more calm rear end, much more stable.

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25 comments on “2014 Austrian Grand Prix team radio transcript”

zoom (@zoomracing)
25th June 2014, 15:34

Keith one question, is this everything or there is more but is not released to the public?.
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  25th June 2014, 15:38
  
  @zoomracing This is only what was broadcast, there will be loads more that wasn’t broadcast. Some drivers don’t feature at all above, and if you compare those to the drivers we heard the most messages from (probably Hamilton on Sunday) it’s clear there’s loads more.
  1. sato113 (@sato113)
    25th June 2014, 21:50
    
    But do you get a transcript or do you listen to the pit channel broadcast and write down what you hear?
    1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      25th June 2014, 22:01
      
      @sato113 In the case of this article it’s all transcribed by me and the messages are those which were broadcast on the pit lane feed and the main feed.
      
      For many of the previous articles this year the transcription, or the bulk of it, was done by @WillWood.
      
      It’s interesting to note that while the majority of the messages on the pit lane feed aren’t played on the main feed, as you’d expect, there are also typically quite a few messages on the main feed which don’t appear on the pit lane feed. And sometimes messages are played on both feeds but edited slightly differently. In the case of those what you see above is an amalgamation of the two.
      
      I believe the makers of the Official F1 App had said it would have exclusive team radio messages on it at some point but as far as I can tell at the moment they just play the pit lane feed over the top of BBC Radio 5 Live’s commentary (James Allen and Allan McNish).
      1. spoutnik (@spoutnik)
        26th June 2014, 8:29
        
        As always, great job! Thanks!
      2. sato113 (@sato113)
        27th June 2014, 15:59
        
        thanks keith!
Damonw
25th June 2014, 15:42

Was Hamilton actually racing the car or nursing it??? Mercedes need to sort this rubbish out!!
1. Troy Mounia
  26th June 2014, 6:00
  
  He overcooked his brakes. If he can’t manage them properly, it isn’t his team’s fault.
  1. John Well
    26th June 2014, 9:25
    
    This is a lame excuse.
  2. Paul Sainsbury
    26th June 2014, 11:05
    
    Mmm………..It is not very ‘F1’ though, is it? Do you really think drivers should be punished for being fast? To me there is nothing quite so dull and tedious as the sight or sound of a brilliant racer being forbidden to demonstrate those skills because of ‘management’. If that’s the way we are going, and we seem to be, then let’s have two separate championships, one for ‘management’, which can take place in a classroom, and another for ‘driving fast’. I know which one I’ll be watching.
Cuesta (@cuesta)
25th June 2014, 15:57

Lol at Kimi’s bit, never disappoints. I mean speaking.
DaveW (@dmw)
25th June 2014, 16:48

This is really god’s work. Invaluable.

It’s interesting that Nico is being told, slow in fast out. I think read that tip in my GT5 instruction booklet. It’s good advice.

On the “management” issue, I suspect that, because their pace is so strong, MB is not worrying with modifications to improve the ERS and braking reliability. They can just have the drivers manage it and still be well ahead. But if I’m Hamilton I would be lobbying for the team to put on more mechanical braking ability and cooling into the car. Hamilton has the edge in raw pace, however slightly, and so a “management” situation neutralizes his advantage.
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  25th June 2014, 17:21
  
  @dmw
  
  This is really god’s work. Invaluable.
  
  You’re welcome :-)
  
  It’s interesting that Nico is being told, slow in fast out. I think read that tip in my GT5 instruction booklet. It’s good advice.
  
  Yes I was surprised they gave him an instruction as basic as that!
  1. AbeyG (@1abe)
    25th June 2014, 18:58
    
    @dmw: This is really god’s work. Invaluable.
    
    @keithcollantine: You’re welcome :-)
    
    This is funny! ;)
  2. jasonp
    26th June 2014, 0:29
    
    I think it is a reminder for how to defend from Hamilton at that stage. Giving up a bit of entry speed where he will back up the following car up as well to ensure a good exit.
2. kpcart
  26th June 2014, 2:08
  
  If they are both managing then it is still equal, may the best man win. You have to be fast in all situations
the skwirrell
25th June 2014, 16:59

thanks for providing these – always great to get them. cheers
mantresx (@mantresx)
25th June 2014, 17:01

“I mean, where’s our pace gone? I compare to Checo, also visually he’s got a much more calm rear end, much more stable. ”

It seems Pérez is much better at delivering the power smoothly than Hulkenberg, that would explain why Nico has been completely outclassed at circuits like Bahrain, Canada and now Austria, where traction is everything.
But I expect him to be ahead again in Silverstone where the layout is more conventional.
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  25th June 2014, 17:22
  
  @mantresx It’s interesting to me that Perez has been at his most competitive at circuits with similar characteristics – Bahrain, Canada and Austria – whereas Hulkenberg been fairly consistent.
  1. AbeyG (@1abe)
    25th June 2014, 19:00
    
    By that context, any idea which other circuits in the calender have similiar characteristics like Bahrain?
  2. Enigma (@enigma)
    25th June 2014, 22:05
    
    @keithcollantine @mantresx Also, his four podiums have been at Bahrain, Monza, Montreal and a wet Sepang. Good spot!
Jason (@jason12)
25th June 2014, 17:35

Rosberg doing the Kimi “Leave me alone! “.
@HoHum (@hohum)
26th June 2014, 0:42

So tell me again how good the tyres are and how they aren’t stopping the drivers from racing ! Ok, now go back and read the radio transcripts again.
Gabriel
26th June 2014, 2:29

Where can I listen to all the radio messages of the teams? Is there any site or any app I can download?
lucho19 (@lucho19)
28th June 2014, 4:08

Thank you for this section Keith.
It is always a must read!
Gives an nice input on the teams characters and relationships.