Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Silverstone, 2014

2014 British Grand Prix team radio transcript

2014 British Grand Prix

9th July 2014, 12:1510th July 2014, 13:24 | Written by Will Wood

Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel waged war with each other over the team radios as well as on the track during the British Grand Prix.

The pair traded blows over a dozen laps around Silverstone, while simultaneously complaining about their rivals’ driving standards. Alonso was first warned about abusing track limits as early as lap ten, then following a complaint from Jenson Button the Ferrari driver was shown the black-and-white flag on lap 27.

Vettel reported Alonso for leaving the track so many times he sounded increasingly bored by it towards the end of their fight. But he became much more animated when he claimed Alonso was not leaving him enough room during their wheel-to-wheel scraps.

Alonso, meanwhile, was livid when Vettel finally got past him on the run into Copse. He said Vettel had only been able to make the move stick because he had run wide, and demanded Vettel be ordered to hand the place back or receive a five-second penalty.

The decisive moment in the outcome for the battle for victory came when Nico Rosberg retired from the lead on lap 29. His radio messages reveal that before the problem proved terminal his overriding concern was to avoid failing to finish entirely, and find a way of getting the car to the finish to collect some points.

Here are the team radio messages from the British Grand Prix.

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2014 British Grand Prix team radio transcript

Lap*	From	To	Message
PR	Bernadette Collins	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, that’s good. Let’s start to cool the car. Cool the car and Yellow G10. OK Jenson, test your drinks. Test your drinks.
PR	Jenson Button	Bernadette Collins	Drinks are OK.
PR	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	And Kevin, would you like a front-wing change?
PR	Kevin Magnussen	Mark Temple	No, stay as we are. Stay as we are.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Please check the right-rear brake. There’s a lot of smoke coming out of it, there must’ve been a small fire.
PR	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel, around to the grid please. Around to the grid.
PR	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Yep. Understood.
PR	Bernadette Collins	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, that’s good. The guys will meet you at the back of the grid.
PR	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	OK, stay at the back of the grid.
PR	David Lloyd	Kimi Raikkonen	OK, I remind you, box, box. If you can get some temperature in the tyres, that would be good. Bottas is around ten seconds behind.
PR	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	Cool engine. Standard up-shift. Cool engine, standard up-shift and on to grid.
PR	Adrian Sutil	Marco Schupbach	OK.
PR	Francesco Nenci	Jules Bianchi	OK Jules, go to grid. Go to grid. And clutch nine, please Jules. Clutch nine and we push you into position.
PR	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	Fifteen minutes. Fifteen to go.
PR	Craig Gardiner	Esteban Gutierrez	Switch off all cooling fans for the national anthem.
PR	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	OK, so just confirm. Pit limiter on, should be in mode 12. RS mode lower RS only. Blend four. Torque one and pre-select blend.
PR	Simon Rennie	Unknown	So to confirm, go clutch seven from the dummy grid. His procedure was good.
PR	“Rich”	Nico Rosberg	And radio check, Nico. This is Rich.
PR	Nico Rosberg	“Rich”	Radio loud and clear. Much better than Tony.
PR	“Rich”	Nico Rosberg	Why, thank you!
PR	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	And main thing on the lap to grid – temperature, as I say, in the front brakes. And just do everything you can to keep temperatures in the brakes and the front tyres.
PR	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	Maldonado having difficulty with his dashboard display. One thing – the light on the screen is very poor. I can’t see the numbers. Is more than normal. There is something wrong there.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Do you expect the grip level to be lower on the grid than in the pitlane?
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Slightly, Lewis.
FL	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Drivers give feedback on their practice starts. Not much initial torque. Too little initial torque.
FL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that, Nico. I’ll feed that back. Too much initial torque.
FL	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Oh, not too much, too little. Too little.
FL	Unknown	Sebastian Vettel	And clutch eight. Clutch eight. All systems are good. Gearbox is good.
FL	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Start was not so good. Was under-engaged, I think?
FL	Bernadette Collins	Jenson Button	And Jenson, brakes are good. Brakes are good, no more warming on the brakes. No more warming. And yellow G3. Yellow G3.
FL	Paul Davison	Unknown	Can we keep the clutch setting?
FL	Unknown	Paul Davison	Yes, OK.
FL	Paul Davison	Jules Bianchi	Yeah, so torque three. Torque three with the engine. Two tyre warming.
FL	Bernadette Collins	Jenson Button	OK Jenson. And launch map on. Launch map on.
1	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Massa has collided with Raikkonen’s car following a crash on the Wellington Straight and is driving back to the pits with damage. OK Felipe, are you OK? Felipe, are you OK?
1	Felipe Massa	Andrew Murdoch	I can come back like that? Let me know, otherwise I stop.
1	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	The race is red-flagged following Raikkonen’s crash. Vergne and Perez collided at turn one. Tell us if you have got damage in the front wing, Jev?
1	Jean-Eric Vergne	Xevi Pujolar	Not sure. I’m not really sure damage, I’ve not seen anything flying.
1	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	That will be box, Jev. Box for front wing and tyres.
1	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton made minor contact with Vettel at Village at the start Steering feels a little bit light. Just please check the front wing and if I’ve got any damage on the rest of my car.
1	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK, copy that.
1	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Bring spare parts just in case, guys.
1	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Copy that, Lewis. We’re on it.
1	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	OK, check the front-left corner, in terms of numbers. I had a little bit of touch with Hamilton’s wheel. Also, I will drive by close to the pit wall, so If you could stand out and have a good look. I don’t think it’s damaged, but if you could have a good look.
1	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Copy.
1	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Yeah, what happened on the launch?
1	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	Basically, I throw the first clutch and nothing happened. I had no torque at all. And then I throw the second one to try and see… and basically nothing happened.
1	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	The race will be restarted behind the Safety Car. That’s our information at the moment.
1	Kamui Kobayashi	Tim Wright	Kobayashi was also involved in the Raikkonen crash. Please look at my car. On the straight, I hit with the Ferrari because… I try to avoid it, I went to gras but… I don’t know. I’m not sure.
1	Tim Wright	Kamui Kobayashi	OK, Kamui. Understood. Understood.
1	Max Chilton	Unknown	Chilton’s car was damaged in the Raikkonen accident and he came into the pits at the end of lap one, under the red flag. I know you’ve probably got a thousand things to worry about, but if this red goes on much longer, then obviously the race is going to go on longer and there’s more time for that rain coming at the rain. So maybe go hard, run long and hope for the rain? It’s one less stop, but it’s down to you.
1	Unknown	Max Chilton	Max, we copy everything you say but we’re happy with our strategy at the minute, please. Thank you.
1	Jean-Eric Vergne	Xevi Pujolar	OK, I jump out.
1	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Is the wind direction the same today?
1	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	Lewis, this is Jockey. Very similar to yesterday. It’s come round about 20 degrees. It’s now directly right to left along Hangar Straight. As you see it from right to left.
1	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	OK Jock. What’re your thoughts on front wing? And then…
1	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	Down half a turn on front flap is what Bono [Peter Bonnington] and I agreed. I’m happy with that.
1	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	Yep.
1	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	Diff mode, stay where you are I think, at the moment. Just to make you aware…
1	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	Interrupting Am I allowed to go up to the five?
1	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	On diff high-speed? Yeah, OK.
1	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	Might be able to.
1	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	You are going to do another start procedure before the start of this race. You’re gonna start behind the Safety Car, but you are going to do a bite-point find as soon as you fire up and then go strat mode five and then RS modes will be on and then you’ll launch off the grid.
1	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	OK. And for this lap? What do I do strat wise?
1	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	So you’ll be in strat mode five and we’ll run the brake magic until I tell you to get it off.
1	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Gonna be start behind the Safety Car, yeah?
1	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	That’s correct. So it’ll be start just like we did in… it was… yeah, Monaco. Start behind the Safety Car, we’ll go around, do a lap, the Safety Car will come in and then that is virtually lap two of the race – this is lap one of the race. So for info, don’t forget you can overtake from that Safety Car line.
1	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	And just give me as much info as I need in terms of tyres, etc. Warm up and temps.
1	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Understood. I think you can give them a pretty good work out on this lap.
2	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	After an hour long delay, the race resumes under Safety Car And remember, ten car lengths behind Safety Car.
2	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Brakes are starting to come up now. Just need to work them a little bit more. Tyres are nine front, eight and a half rear.
2	Bernadette Collins	Jenson Button	And Jenson, Yellow G3. Yellow G3 and Safety Car in this lap. Safety Car in this lap.
3	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	The race has now restarted Torque seven for running. Torque seven for running. And will be in this lap for drive-through penalty. Build tyre temps, build front tyre temps.
4	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Hamilton has passed Magnussen for third OK Lewis, so Nico 4.5 seconds ahead.
5	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	OK, good job Jev. Now close the gap with Grosjean ahead.
5	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	We’re on the bottom of the state of store, no overtake. No overtake.
5	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Max, second sector was one second quicker than Jules. Third sector was one second quicker, so you are catching the pack. Good job.
6	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	And remember, try slower in for better exit. Gap, 5.4.
6	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	The Mercedes drivers get their usual information about each others’ driving techniques. OK Lewis, gap now 5.4. Loss to Nico, braking, turn six [Brooklands].
7	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	By lap seven Rosbreg is almost 14 seconds ahead of third-placed Button, with Hamilton between them. So Nico, you are in your Safety Car window.
8	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Just struggling with overall grip.
8	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK, understood.
9	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	OK, so try an earlier and faster apex in turn 15 [Stowe].
9	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So Nico braking later, turn 15. And half tenth faster, sector one. Gap at 5.5. You are in your Safety Car window.
10	Andrea Stella	Fernando Alonso	Warning – on corner 18 [Club], we have to stay on the track on corner 18.
11	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Ricciardo passed Hulkenberg on lap nine. OK mate, nice job. Let’s get after Alonso.
11	Craig Gardiner	Esteban Gutierrez	Gutierrez has collided with Maldonado at Vale Is the car OK, Esteban?
11	Esteban Gutierrez	Craig Gardiner	Not, it is not OK!
11	Craig Gardiner	Esteban Gutierrez	No reply is heard from Gutierrez’s car – but he can be heard crunching through a gravel trap and into retirement. Understood, is it just the front wing?
11	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	OK Checo, so this is the Bianchi, Vergne, Grosjean, Maldonado train ahead, OK? So it’s Bianchi at the head of these three cars ahead of you.
12	Marcus Ericsson	Angel Baena	Ericsson is cruising with apparent suspension damage I have a damaged car. Front suspension, left.
12	Angel Baena	Marcus Ericsson	OK, roger. If it’s safe to bring it back, bring it back.
13	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Still yellow, yellow, turn one, two [Abbey/Farm]. Be more progressive with the steering, turns one and two. And be aware, fuel is to target, but you do not have excess. We’re just safe at the moment.
14	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	At the next stop, what are you thinking on front wing?
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	I have no idea. Because we have got two big issues. I don’t know.
14	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that. We’re fighting the wind, I think. It’s the wind.
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Well maybe I should take more flaps, because the high-speed understeer is absolutely killing us. I can handle the stability with my torque and engine braking.
14	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that Nico. Watch the track limits in turn nine [Copse]. Track limits, turn nine.
14	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK, Jenson. Let’s work the front-left tyre a little harder, if you can. More temperature in the front-left.
15	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So two tenths faster, sector two. So pitting the hards for the next stint, we’re thinking one turn down, maybe one and a half. Let me know what you think.
15	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	One turn, I think.
15	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Rosberg made his first pit stop on lap 18. So Nico we may extend one more lap. Just let us know how the tyres are looking, look like they’re coming back a little bit.
15	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Tyres are good.
15	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy, we’re going to go one more lap.
16	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Great job, Max. It was a 44.4 from Kobayashi. He’s within reach, let’s get him in the next lap or two.
16	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Ricciardo pits for the only time in the race. You’ll come out behind Sutil, ahead of Vergne. Maybe close behind Sutil.
17	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis you’re the fastest man on track.
17	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	So Vettel ahead’s on a two stop anyway, Nico. So let’s settle down and try and make this one work.
17	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	And how are the tyres?
17	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Having started 14th Bottas has just passed Button for third behind the two Mercedes. Brilliant stuff, Valtteri.
18	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So push hard now, Nico. Push hard now. It won’t be long.
18	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So we’re going to be target, plus two. Target plus two. You are one tenth faster, sector one.
18	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, three tenths faster sector one. It’s hammer time.
19	Kevin Magnussen	Mark Temple	Tyres are OK. Tyres are OK.
19	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Great management, Valtteri. To safeguard our day we need to run this tyre right to the end of its life. So how many laps do you think left?
19	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Difficult to get the exact [unclear] so, I think the wear is OK. So, could be up to ten laps.
19	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Copy, good feedback. We’ll just keep an eye on lap times. That’s good news.
20	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	Next car in front is Jev, four seconds. Use the hards for him – 41.5 last timed lap. Forty-one point five.
20	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	The first sign of the problem which eventually caused Rosberg’s retirement. Gearbox problem on the downshift.
20	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy, copy. Will advise.
21	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel. Hulkenberg ahead is one-stopping. Need to get past him as soon as possible.
21	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So we’re continuing to look at the problem, Nico. No information at the moment.
22	Francesco Nenci	Jules Bianchi	Pace much better. You’re much closer to Maldonado now.
22	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	You have now jumped a lot of cars ahead. We’re looking good. Nice job, mate.
22	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	What about tyres? Tyre phase and balance?
22	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	All good. Car now is a little bit too much on the nose, so 1.4 [unclear].
22	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	Copy.
23	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	Behind Vergne is clear, he’s on two stops. His tyres are seven laps old Mediums.
23	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So tyres were evenly worn front and rear. Front a little bit more – 50 percent remaining.
23	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So, menu ten to one. Change to gearbox settings should be transparent. Menu ten to one.
24	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Tyres are starting to drop off.
24	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK copy that message, Lewis. One more lap. One more lap.
24	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	This is a good in-lap, Lewis. Just keep on it.
24	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel. Everybody ahead will have to stop again. Three cars will have to fit hards and they will be slow. Three cars ahead will fit hards.
25	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	The last two laps, Alonso’s gone off the circuit at Copse.
25	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, understood. Understood. Doing a great job.
25	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, Yellow G3. Yellow G3. Target plus two.
26	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	While Rosberg put on mediums again at his first pit stop, Hamilton switched to the hards. Although hewas warned they would take a while to warm up his first full lap out of the pits turned out to be the fastest of the race. OK Lewis, this tyre has a warm-up slope on the outlap, so we suggest diff entry five for this tyre. Diff entry five.
26	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Don’t worry about the pit stops, guys. But let’s get a good one next one, OK?
26	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, so we are still looking for target plus two. Alonso’s pitted but has a five second stop-go, so this is all good.
27	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So Lewis pushing very hard at the moment. Consider brake balance rearwards for ten to 13. Gap to Lewis, 4.8.
28	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	And HPP4 position ten when you can. Another nine-tenths that last lap. Gap at 3.2.
30	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Rosberg’s gearbox fails into Village, allowing Hamilton through into the lead Problem on the upshift at turn eight [Woodcote].
30	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy, understood. We’re looking at it.
30	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Consider slowing me down just to get me to the finish line?
30	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy that, Nico. We will advise. No change at the moment on gearbox settings.
30	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Cause I could stop shifting so much, if you need to.
30	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	OK, really having big problems with the gearbox so please advise. Staying in fifth gear at the moment. I lost it again on downshifting.
30	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Some of these messages may not be in chronological order as they were edited differntly on different channels. So Nico menu ten to eight and leave it in eight.
30	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Stay in sixth, Nico. Stay in sixth.
30	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Yeah, I don’t have drive at the moment.
30	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	If you don’t have drive, try shifting Nico.
31	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, Nico is reporting a gearbox issue. He has a shift problem. So don’t take any risks.
31	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, so Nico is trying to get this car home. So take no risks. Just caution with the traffic.
31	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, so gap to the car in third place in 24 seconds.
31	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	OK, I’m trying everything. Anything else I can do?
31	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	OK, not at the moment. We’re still looking.
31	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Driver default 01. Try driver default 01.
31	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	OK, anything else?
31	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Stand by. So we’ve got about thirty seconds before we need to turn off, Nico…
31	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Twenty seconds before we need to turn off…
31	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	OK, so stop stop. Turn off. Stop, stop. Turn off, Nico. Going to save the engine.
31	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis just look after the car as much as you can. Yellow, yellow, Maggotts/Becketts. I’m afraid Nico’s had to stop.
31	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	How’s our pace? Is it worth going longer?
31	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	We are looking into it, we are looking into your question.
32	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Yep, pace is still good. You’re now the second quickest car on track. Rosberg has retired.
33	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	So for info, Vettel ahead is on 21-lap old used [medium tyres], so he has to stop again. So in reality, we’re in P2. So keep your head down, we need to get to the end.
33	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Try to go forwards on bias if you can. It might help the rear temps. We don’t need that help for reliability, just for tyre temps. It might help tyre temps.
33	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Nico, so we’re 20 laps to go. You should be able to push these [tyres] all the way to the end.
34	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	So Max, for the race situation, because we were in the pit-lane we missed that extra formation lap, which put us one lap down to the field. So we are one lap down to Jules, we’ll keep pushing to the end, hopefully we can catch back up to Kobayashi and regain that position and we’ll keep pushing and take positions as other people go out. Sorry for the situation but you’re doing a great job, keep pushing.
34	Max Chilton	Gary Gannon	How far to Kobayashi?
34	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Kobayashi is about 70 percent of a lap ahead. Kobayashi’s in turn four [The Loop] now. So we need to make that up to him, but he’s lapping much slower so we’ll see how we’re doing pace wise and he’ll hopefully be stopping again.
35	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Perez passed Sutil on lap 37. C’mon Checo, let’s try and get him [Sutil] nice and early. So he doesn’t disrupt our rhythm.
36	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	Watch overlaying brake and throttle. Watch overlaying brake and throttle.
37	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	While Vettel pitted on lap 10 and had to make another pit stop to get to the end, Ricciardo’s first pit stop was on lap 15 and he felt able to make his tyres last until the flag. Daniel, do you think you can do 15 more laps? Do you think you can do 15 more laps on this set?
37	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Yes.
37	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK, understood.
37	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sutil is going wide in turn nine [Copse] all the time.
37	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Copy that. Good info. Thank you.
37	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Vettel came out of the pits ahead of Alonso on lap 34 but was passed by the driver, who defended vigorously when Vettel attacked him back. He can’t do that! I would’ve crashed into him!
37	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Understood. You’ve got plenty of laps. Let’s do it again.
38	Fernando Alonso	Andrea Stella	Alonso complains in Eng-talian. Track limits a tutti, eh? [Track limits for all, eh?]
39	Adrian Sutil	Marco Schupbach	What’s going on with the brakes again? I mean, how can I race?
39	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	We are pushing for you, we are looking into it. Keep racing as good as you can.
39	Fernando Alonso	Andrea Stella	Track limits [unclear]!
39	Andrea Stella	Fernando Alonso	Understood. Track limits for everyone and the car behind [Vettel] included.
40	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	So Jenson, Ricciardo on 24-lap-old tyres. You’re currently six tenths faster than Ricciardo. Six tenths faster.
41	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	These tyres are pretty good. There’s a lot of life left in them.
41	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK, copy that Lewis.
41	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Are you happy with the tyre energies? For me it feels OK.
41	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	For sure. Don’t push any harder than this. We’re in a safe position.
41	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson. We think Ricciardo will try and get to the end. We think he will try and get to the end, so we need to chase him down and pass him on track.
42	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Pace is good. You’re doing a very good job. Gap to Button – nine seconds. Still nine seconds to Button. He’s doing 39.0s.
42	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	…and another one. So track limits, Alonso. Went wide again.
42	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Understood. You need to use the charge. Either charge ten or use overtake. One or the other.
43	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Appears to be in reference to the pair going side-by-side into Copse on lap 42. He didn’t leave a space! I could’ve easily given him a puncture!
43	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Understood. Stay patient. You’re clearly quicker.
44	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel, you do not need to look after the right-hand side tyres. You can push in left-hand corners. Push in the left-hand corners.
44	Andrea Stella	Fernando Alonso	And we are reporting track limits to the race direction.
44	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel, pace management is good at the moment. You’re doing a good job at the moment. Button will not catch you.
44	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	OK Kevin, ten laps to go. Tyres are good, we can push more. Let’s close up on Vettel and Alonso, see if we can get them in the end.
45	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	OK, still half a second faster. Still half a second faster. We are catching him [Hulkenberg].
45	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	And another one.
45	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Understood
46	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	And another one…
46	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Daniel, if you can maintain a 39.2, Button will not catch you. If you can maintain 39.2, it will be easy.
46	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	OK, understood. Thank you.
46	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Temps OK?
46	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Yeah, temps are looking better now. Just keep working at it.
47	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel, should be easy, but don’t let him get DRS. Do not let him get within DRS. We need to keep a good five second margin.
48	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Vettel finally passed Alonso after another close encounter between the pair at Brooklands, which appears to be what he is referring to here. He did the same thing again! He can’t do that! If I don’t move out of the way, he’s launching me off the track!
48	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Good job. OK Sebastian, five laps to go. Button ahead, 39.0.
49	Fernando Alonso	Andrea Stella	While Vettel was complaining about Alonso, Alonso was complaining about Vettel. He takes the DRS thanks to the track limits at the last corner! He take the DRS out of turn five [Aintree] and out of turn nine [Copse]! Either way! What more I need to do?
49	Andrea Stella	Fernando Alonso	That is clear. That is clear.
49	Fernando Alonso	Andrea Stella	Yes and he got the position immediately! Immediately! If not five seconds at the end of the race… [edited]
49	Fernando Alonso	Andrea Stella	Some of these messages may not be in chronological order as they were edited differntly on different channels. I need to get back the position immeditately.
50	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Jenson this is really good. Currently more than one second a lap faster than Ricciardo.
51	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel, three laps to go. Button’s last lap was a 38.5. Gap is now four seconds. Four seconds gap. Pick up the pace a little bit.
51	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	The burning smell was likely Maldonado’s smoking engine ahead Check the brakes, because I can smell something. I can smell something burning.
51	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Understood. Understood.
51	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	Maldonado has pulled off circuit with a smoking engine Stop the car please, Pastor. Stop the car. Stop the car.
51	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	Yeah, I will stop.
51	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Maldonado ahead may be leaking oil. May be oil from Maldonado car ahead of you.
52	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, this is the last lap. Starting the last lap. Big grandstand finish, JB.
52	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis exercise a bit of caution sector three, may be some oil down. Maldonado stopped turn one [Abbey], there is a yellow there.
VL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	You can’t touch this, Lewis! Home grand prix win! Beautiful work. Lap it up boy!
VL	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	England! What a great feeling guys! I couldn’t be happier. I’m sorry about yesterday but fantastic job today, this weekend, as always.
VL	Paddy Lowe	Lewis Hamilton	Great drive Lewis! Fantastic drive, really controlled. Well done!
VL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Hamilton celebrated with doughnuts on his return to the pits. OK Lewis, let’s look after this motor. We need it again.
VL	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Wow! We said this morning, Valterri, that was going to be fun, but I don’t know where you pulled that one from. That was absolutely unbelieveable! Great recovery by the whole team after difficult weekend, especially yesterday. But absolutely unbelievable drive. Well done!
VL	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Yes! [Laughs] Thank you. Thank you guys. Every single one. At the factory, at Mercedes, in the race team. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We’re on the right way.
VL	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Come on! Woo!
VL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Nice job. I could tell you wanted to one stop all weekend, mate!
VL	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Nice. Last lap couldn’t have come sooner!
VL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	He made us sweat a little bit, last lap!
VL	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	That’s a great drive. Such a shame we just missed out on the end there. But a great drive. I think at the beginning of the weekend, we’d have taken P4, so top job Jenson.
VL	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	In his 15th British Grand Prix Button once again failed to finish on the podium, crossing the line less than a second behind third-placed Ricciardo. [Sighs] He was one more lap! One more lap…
VL	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Yeah, I know. I know. It’s incredibly Frustrating. I think for the whole weekend, we deserved it as well. But, never mind. P4 is a good result and, yeah. It’s been a nice day. So, Lewis won the race. Bottas had a very impressive race from where he qualified and was second. Ricciardo obviously just ahead of us third. We were fourth. Vettel and Alonso had a big battle and Vettel won that, so P5. Alonso P6. Kevin seventh. Hulkenberg eighth and the two Toro Rossos Kvyat and Vergne ninth and tenth.
VL	Jenson Button	Dave Robson	Yeah, it was a tough old race. Strange with the different tyres. The variety of them was much better with us – I don’t know why that is. Just general grip. Less movement with the tyre – I guess that’s why.
VL	Dave Robson	Jenson Button	Yep, OK. Understood. I think, yeah, our pace on the Hards was not too bad at all.
VL	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Alright, good job Sebastian. Sorry mate. We picked the wrong one there. You’re P5. We decided to keep Daniel out. So Daniel did one stop. He’s P3.
VL	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Yep. I saw that. Did what we could from where we were. But.. yeah. Decided for the wrong one then.
VL	Christian Horner	Sebastian Vettel	Your move on Fernando… I tell you what… big set of balls to go wheel-to-wheel with him through Woodcote. So, I mean, that was move of the race there. Move of the race.
VL	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	We finished in P7. Pretty tough race. Obviously we had quite a bit of traffic and I think that maybe hurt our tyres a bit. But I think you did a good solid job. We’ll have a look and see if there’s anything else we can do better.
VL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Good job Nico. So P8. P8. That was a good job, that.
VL	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Yeah, cheers guys today. Unbelieveable. It’s [unclear] like it was on Friday. It’s so difficult to drive. We just need to get on top of that.
VL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that, Nico. Copy that.
VL	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	P9, Daniil. P9. Well done, well done. Very good race.
VL	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	OK guys. I gave it everything. I gave it all I could.
VL	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	Yeah, we saw that. We saw that. We all think that you did a very good job. Well done, well done.
VL	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	Vergne took a point having been 18th at the restart. OK Jev. Good job, despite the problems at the first start. Car in the points. Very good drive. Very good, solid drive.

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Message: Repetitive or irrelevant messages omitted. Notes in italics. Highlights in bold.

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39 comments on “2014 British Grand Prix team radio transcript”

Joshua Mesh (@joshua-mesh)
9th July 2014, 12:24

Good battle of words between the top two on the track. Both trying to get what ever advantage they can find, and not even for a top position.
AmbroseRPM (@ambroserpm)
9th July 2014, 12:45

25 Dave Robson Jenson Button OK Lewis, understood. Understood. Doing a great job.

Did Robson actually say Lewis?
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  9th July 2014, 13:24
  
  @ambroserpm Nope, was a typo, have changed it.
maarten.f1 (@)
9th July 2014, 12:51

Switch off all cooling fans for the national anthem.

Never seen such message before. Do they only do this for the British national anthem or do they do the same in other countries?
1. Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
  9th July 2014, 14:30
  
  Can’t they play the national anthem on the engines any more, with these new hybrid ones?
Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
9th July 2014, 12:56

25 Dave Robson Jenson Button OK Lewis, understood. Understood. Doing a great job.

I hope this is a typo and not what was actually said ;)
zoom (@zoomracing)
9th July 2014, 13:15

Can’t believe Alonso got a flag for going out of the track and others didn’t. double standards much?.
1. Atticus (@atticus-2)
  9th July 2014, 14:09
  
  He got it very early on when he basically did it much more often than others.
  
  But yeah, Vettel did it just as much in their battle, he even went wide at the exit of Copse when he finally passed Alonso and no one cared.
2. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  9th July 2014, 16:59
  
  @zoomracing @atticus-2 From watching the onboard feed I got the impression Alonso was doing it more than the others. Given he was warned about it halfway through the race and continued to do it throughout his battle with Vettel I’d say he’s lucky not to have had a penalty.
  
  I certainly find it hard to agree he was in some way hard done by for receiving an admonishment that turned out to be of no consequence whatsoever. I doubt the prospect of having a flag waved at him is going to put him or any of his rivals off doing the same in future.
Alonso
9th July 2014, 13:24

Alonso to the press after the race: “We had even discussed with the team two laps before the battle when Sebastian went out of the pit if we retire the car because we had some aerodynamic problems.”
There’s nothing about that in the messages. How could they discuss it?
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  9th July 2014, 19:31
  
  That discussion wasn’t broadcast. As has been noted here in the past we usually don’t hear that many messages involving Ferrari’s drivers, particularly given how popular they are. This race was a bit of an exception to that because we heard a lot of Alonso’s comments about Vettel.
  1. Tyler (@tdog)
    9th July 2014, 23:27
    
    we heard a lot of Alonso’s comments about Vettel
    
    Funny that, when Fernando talks strategy with his engineer, it’s usually in Italian, but for some reason he stuck to English :-)
Atticus (@atticus-2)
9th July 2014, 14:10

I love the insight these transcripts provide.
Robbie (@robbie)
9th July 2014, 14:43

Just being tongue-in-cheek here…was waiting to read on lap 31, after Bonnington says to LH: I’m afraid Nico’s had to stop.

LH: I’m gutted.
1. Ylli (@yllibeli)
  9th July 2014, 15:01
  
  I think tha LH was as happy because he would win, concerned if his car would fail like Nico’s, sad because of not challenging Nico. I believe this is what he meant by “i’m gutted”
2. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  9th July 2014, 19:40
  
  @robbie Yeah that was begging for a sarcastic response. Maybe there was one but it wasn’t broadcast…
stefano (@alfa145)
9th July 2014, 15:04

I think JB would be the best possibile test driver, after he retires. He may go for commentator, which is fine, but you’ve got to admit his feedback is so enjoyable for us and surely it’s immensely appreciated by his engineers.
1. LexBlair (@lexblair)
  9th July 2014, 15:24
  
  I doubt he would go back to test driving. ;) I hope he gets a commentator gig after retirement. He really is very well-spoken and obviously knows what he is talking about. He is charismatic and funny too. He would surely make for a great commentator… (He also has good chemistry with the BBC/Sky guys..)
Jack (@jmc200)
9th July 2014, 15:19

Really impressed by how switched on Rosberg is, he’s really thinking about every possibility to score points, you can see how championship minded he is. Although the desperation is his voice was also clear to see. So was Hulkenberg’s, he was very unhappy with his car!
1. Ylli (@yllibeli)
  9th July 2014, 15:33
  
  i strongly agree! though i am with Hamilton on Mrc, i have to say that i love his attitude
luierre
9th July 2014, 15:22

I thought exactly what the engineer said to Lewis when doing donuts. This is no time to be doing donuts, save them for the last race man!
MtlRacer (@mtlracer)
9th July 2014, 17:21

MC Hammer references by Hamilton and his engineers are the most ridiculous thing ever, although MC Hammer must be so happy someone remembers him.
1. Dave (@)
  9th July 2014, 18:20
  
  Are they not allowed a few human peculiarities?
2. Frasier (@frasier)
  9th July 2014, 18:44
  
  I thought he meant put the hammer down, as in flat out, use the rest of the tyres etc, perhaps I’m just not up with MC Hammer [I’m not BTW].
3. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  9th July 2014, 19:35
  
  @mtlracer @raceprouk @frasier Am I the only one who hears “hammer time” and thinks “stop!”?
  1. Baron (@baron)
    9th July 2014, 20:25
    
    Yes.
  2. MtlRacer (@mtlracer)
    9th July 2014, 21:31
    
    That’s why I find it silly. Of course the underlying meaning is pull out all the stops and go for broke. It’s also a lame play on words/sounds — “Hamilton” -> “Hamil Time” -> “Hammer Time”?
    
    Of course I’d love to see the home video of Lewis dressed up and spoofing U Can’t Touch This when he was five years old.
  3. Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
    9th July 2014, 21:32
    
    Haha, mixed messages there ;)
  4. jsw11984 (@jarred-walmsley)
    10th July 2014, 0:03
    
    Nope, first thing that comes to mind for me as well.
4. Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
  10th July 2014, 11:48
  
  Well, could be worse (Sebastian and Crazy Frog)…
Frasier (@frasier)
9th July 2014, 18:40

M-B made a big thing of Rosbergs helpful ‘tip’ for Lewis after he retired… seems no-one thought to tell him though
Jason (@jason12)
9th July 2014, 18:50

Don’t worry about the pit stops, guys. But let’s get a good one next one, OK?

Spoken like true champion.
And they say he’s ‘falling apart mentally’.
SennaWeek
9th July 2014, 19:24

A lot of people posted a comment on Twitter saying that Kimi asked about Felipe the first thing after his accident. I can’t see that here. Is that true Keith or what exactly?
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  9th July 2014, 19:28
  
  According to a tweet from Ferrari, he did:
  
  https://twitter.com/InsideFerrari/status/485763071340974081
  
  The message itself wasn’t on the world or pit lane feeds.
PorscheF1 (@xtwl)
9th July 2014, 20:56

For me the most warning message was the one between Sutil and his engineer.

What’s going on with the brakes again? I mean, how can I race?

What is going on at Sauber? Have they lost everything. I remember what stress Sutil put on the word ‘again’. Since 2012 they followed McLaren into the abyss.
SauberS1 (@saubers1)
9th July 2014, 22:38

Hamilton’s radiotalk is hard.
England101
9th July 2014, 23:59

Anyone else laugh at the below?

34 Gary Gannon Max Chilton So Max, for the race situation, because we were in the pit-lane we missed that extra formation lap, which put us one lap down to the field. So we are one lap down to Jules, we’ll keep pushing to the end, hopefully we can catch back up to Kobayashi and regain that position and we’ll keep pushing and take positions as other people go out. Sorry for the situation but you’re doing a great job, keep pushing.
34 Max Chilton Gary Gannon How far to Kobayashi?
34 Gary Gannon Max Chilton Kobayashi is about 70 percent of a lap ahead. Kobayashi’s in turn four [The Loop] now. So we need to make that up to him, but he’s lapping much slower so we’ll see how we’re doing pace wise and he’ll hopefully be stopping again.
GeeMac (@geemac)
10th July 2014, 7:42

From reading these all season it seems that the Mercedes pitwall is the only one that really “coaches” the drivers corner to corner. All the teams tell their drivers things like “your teammate is faster than you in sector two, your up in the others”, but only Mercedes seem to break it down further and give corner specific into at times. Also, “slower in for a faster exit” has become a regular message for Rosberg.
f1fan
11th July 2014, 13:58

What a push over Alonso was..He demands the position immediately and asking the penalty to the other driver who was making less or same as alo’s mistake..
But in Media everyone is nice and giving hype about the samurai..he has the talent, but making him the great is bit overhyped..Seb is far far better than Alo.