2014 German Grand Prix team radio transcript

Lewis Hamilton was told he was in no rush to get past Jenson Button moments before the costly collision which potentially cost him second place in the German Grand Prix.

Hamilton damaged his wing when he mistakenly believed Button was letting him past, as he pointed out on the radio afterwards.

That eventually led Hamilton to switch to a three-stop strategy. Team mate Nico Rosberg, who was having a far less eventful race at the front of the field, was able to get to the end with just one further stop.

But many other drivers found it necessary to convert to a three-stopper. Kimi Raikkonen was among them – shortly after being told he needed to do four more laps on his current set of tyres he was quite insistent that was not possible.

Late in the race a misunderstanding on the radio at Red Bull meant Sebastian Vettel was not saving fuel as quickly as he needed to at the end of the German Grand Prix.

There had been confusion between him and race engineer Guillaume Rocquelin on more than one occasion during the race as they tried to keep on top of the fuel limit.

A similar situation unfolded at Sauber, where Sergio Perez was reminded in no uncertain terms about the importance of saving fuel. It was a difficult race for the Force India driver, who at one stage was given a power boost to aid his attempt to pass Jean-Eric Vergne but wasn’t able to overtake the Toro Rosso.

Perez’s plight was good news for team mate Nico Hulkenberg, who had problems of his own in the middle of the race. His race engineer reported he’d beaten his team mate by half a minute after the chequered flag fell.

Here are all the team radio messages which were broadcast during the German Grand Prix.

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2014 German Grand Prix team radio transcript

Lap*	From	To	Message
PR	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	So clutch-5, Valtteri. Clutch-5. We’ll stop now and do the adjust on the front wing, minus one. And then we’ll just have to see if you can feel if that’s made a difference. So we need to cool but you could push for Turn 12 if you can.
PR	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK Felipe. If we can do some lift-and-coast for this second half of this lap, just try and save a bit of fuel.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Steering wheel looks a little right-hand down… should be OK.
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK, copy that.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Brakes are smoking quite heavily already. Front-right.
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK, copy that. Temps are… normal. In the range. But probably need a bit of cooling.
PR	Xevi Pujolar	Unknown	Ollie? It’s Xevi. Can we go down another 0.5?
PR	Unknown	Xevi Pujolar	Copy that, I’m looking up tyre pressure [can’t understand] if we have something.
PR	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	It’s a tail wind into turn two at the moment. A tail wind into turn two.
PR	Unknown	Xevi Pujolar	Xevi, just for info, low oil pressure on the other car by half a PSI.
PR	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	OK, as you’re on the front row, the pit limit should be off. You should be in Mode-12. RS mode; lower RS slick only. Should be in blend-3. Torque-1 and then pre-select blend.
PR	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	So, 16kph tail wind into turn one at the moment.
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	[In] P2, the wind was a tail wind into turn one. P3 yesterday morning, the wind was a tail wind into turn six and today it’s almost a tailwind into six. It’s slightly running to the left as you get out of Six.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	OK. So, the car’s quite strong in the higher-speed. I didn’t go to higher speed six, it was there already. But even in high speed six, there’s quite a strong front-end in, like, 12 and…
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Affirm. High speed six is about 40 percent unlocking, so you can lock it up fully or lock it up a lot more, six, seven or eight. It’ll be fully locked at about nine. But…
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Just want to speak to… so we’re taking two holes out? Just want to be careful that we’re not taking too much out, Bonno [Bonnington]. Because we’ve got two holes down from where we were.
PR	Unknown	Lewis Hamilton	So that’s one hole for the different tyre, one hole for balance.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Unknown	OK. And do you want to do that slightly lower pressures to pull it forward just a little bit? Let’s do that.
PR	Unknown	Sergio Perez	OK, Checo. That’s 30 seconds. Commence the bite-point finds now. Two bite-point finds.
FL	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	I think grip was quite OK. Think we can go a bit deeper on the clutch.
FL	Bernadette Collins	Jenson Button	OK, Jenson. Purple C2, position seven. Purple C2, position seven.
FL	Unknown	Nico Rosberg	We’re looking for five burn-outs, please. Five burn-outs.
1	Kevin Magnussen	Mark Temple	The race begins but the Safety Car is immediately deployed as Massa rolls at Turn One I can’t see my front wing but suspension feels OK. Left-front tyre is a little damaged.
1	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	OK, understood. Drive to your delta. Must be positive.
2	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Felipe, are you OK? Felipe are you OK? Felipe, if you can call me back, are you OK?
3	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Daniel, did you have any contact?
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	No contact, just had to avoid it.
3	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Yeah, we saw that mate. Well done avoiding it. Obviously, puts us a little bit back. But let’s get focus for the rest of the race. We are not boxing, we are staying out.
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Ricciardo is contesting being ahead of Maldonado when the Safety Car was deployed We both obviously feel we were ahead. I was definitely ahead when I saw the ‘SC’ boards, so just get some clarity with Maldonado please.
3	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	The race has resumed Need to know which is my place. Is it behind the Sauber, or behind the Red Bull?
3	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	OK, Pastor. You’re shown as being behind the Sauber at the moment, in front of the Red Bull. I will check.
3	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	OK Pastor. Do you think Gutierrez overtook you under the Safety Car?
3	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	I don’t think so.
3	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	OK. In that case we think you’re in the correct position.
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Let’s make an amazing recovery.
4	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	OK, Kevin. Strategically, we’ve still got a good chance in this race. We are ten seconds behind the queue.
4	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So, gap to Bottas behind is 1.8, so looking after the tyres. Front temperature, rear temperature 15. And also, go forward on brake balance to help rear tyre slip.
5	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Got understeer.
5	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Think about putting brake balance rearwards.
5	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	OK Kevin, we should catch backmarkers in two laps. Yellow golf six. Yellow golf six.
6	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	OK, good job there, Jev. Close the gap with Raikkonen now.
6	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel, let’s get through these cars as soon as you can. Next car behind you is Hamilton, he has made his way through the traffic.
6	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Checo, focus on the exit of turn 12. We’re losing two tenths on the exit of turn 12 alone, OK? That’s where our time loss is at the moment. Let’s have a balance update when you can.
6	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	So far is going OK.
7	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So try diff entry three for understeer. Tyre temperatures still 15.5 both front and rear, stabilised.
8	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Hamilton is pressuring Ricciardo Remember, you can hold the ‘overtake’ to defend as well.
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	There’s so much high-speed understeer, it’s incredible.
8	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that, Nico. Copy that.
8	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Hamilton is told he’s 25kph faster than Ricciardo in front of him when he uses the overtake mode and DRS. You’re free to use overtake, you have 25kph with DRS.
9	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Is overtake working?
9	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Yes Jenson, overtake working. Pace is looking good, pace is good.
9	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	I tried to use it across the start/finish line but doesn’t seem to be doing anything.
10	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	Kvyat has spun after contact with Perez OK, he [censored] my race.
10	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	What is he doing?
10	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Do you have any damage? Do you have any damage yourself?
10	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	I don’t think so.
11	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	OK, Kevin. Some cars in front are starting to pit. If we can make good progress on this stint, then we can be in with a shout for some points.
11	Unknown	Unknown	Not working you’ll have to use G3, G3.
13	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	And Nico just confirm -.4 for [soft] tyres next stint.
13	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Affirm affirm.
13	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis looks like some of the [super-soft] runners are struggling with front-left graining. Stops will start happening soon.
13	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Stuck in a lot of traffic.
13	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Yeah copy that Lewis. We just need to make sure we get to the end.
14	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Checo to keep you updated at this stage we think it’s best overall for us to stick to plan at the moment. Is the graining clearing up at all on the front-left?
15	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	And we will be racing Hulkenberg at the pit exit.
16	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Respect the white line on the exit, you’re racing Hamilton and is coming into turn one now.
17	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Do I have to save fuel?
17	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Negative. Negative, Lewis. We are good on fuel.
17	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK and fail-5. Fail-5, fail. OK, that has affected upshifts. That’s something we need to do.
18	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So Bottas, two tenths faster, sector two. You’re forcast P2, even if Bottas overtakes.
18	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Despite the performance boost Perez was unable to pass Vergne on the track. Yellow chassis six, position two. That should be a step up in engine performance, Checo. You have four laps of it so let’s try and clear Vergne.
19	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Small drops of rain hit visor.
19	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Copy that. Nothing big on the radar at the moment. Nothing big on the radar.
20	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Hamilton is under pressure from Bottas, who has fresh tyres OK Lewis, it’s not critical, keeping the postion. We just need to make sure we get this stint length. So you will be target lap, or target lap minus two.
23	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	And Kevin, you’ll have to switch to ‘golf three’, where you would’ve used the overtake, and then switch back to ‘golf six’.
23	Kevin Magnussen	Mark Temple	It doesn’t work. It doesn’t switch on when you switch these.
23	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	So, it won’t make the overtake button work, but if you switch to ‘golf six’ on the start fin– ‘golf three’ on the start/finish line and then leave it there until turn six, that will give the extra power.
23	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Perez has been warned to save fuel – he was hoping rain at the end of the race would mean he could save fuel later. Checo we need to lift and coast please.
23	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	What about the rain at the end then?
23	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	We can’t be certain about that at this stage. We cannot be certain. We cannot rely on the rain, so please lift-and-coast. That’s the last time I’m going to ask you, OK? I will not repeat it again.
24	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK, Button ahead is on the same age Primes. Button is doing 23.2s, you are catching him.
25	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	We need to try to increase the gap to Alonso.
25	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Yeah, tell that to my rear-left tyre. Car’s really poor braking for turn two.
25	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Understood.
25	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, if we go to menu magic, position one. Menu magic, position one. Menu magic, position one. There’s no rush, this is just for the pit stop.
25	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	I’ve never heard of that switch. Which one…
25	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	[Interrupting] OK, don’t worry about it mate. Don’t worry about it. Just leave it.
26	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Really struggling with the rear.
26	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	We’d like to come down to EB1, but no more forwards on brake balance. And try diff mid-5 as well.
26	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, so box, box. Box, box. We’ll be going plus-one, same tyre
27	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	Adrian, is that your pace, or could you go quicker if you don’t have to defend?
27	Adrian Sutil	Marco Schupbach	I can’t go quicker!
27	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	OK, OK.
28	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Grosjean has pulled off circuit There is a problem with the power. Problem with the power. No power.
28	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	Scenario-11. Scenario-11. Scenario-11.
28	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Still no power. Still no power.
28	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	OK, stop the car. Stop the car. Stop the car please.
28	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Unbelieveable. What’s happened again?
28	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	We lost the car’s pump, I think. OK, car is safe Romain. Very sorry about that, you were doing well.
28	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Hulkenberg was able to keep going despite this problem with his engine. Engine is not running smoothly any more.
28	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Stand by Nico, stand by, we’re looking for a driver default.
29	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Car’s really slow. I have an alarm, the up-temp.
29	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Yeah that’s…
29	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	I can’t clear it.
29	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Chassis switch to position two.
29	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	I am in two! But I can’t do anything because I’ve got the alarm. It’s, like, blocked.
29	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Yeah, yeah move the chassis switch backwards and forwards. Back out of two, back to two.
29	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Driver default-01. Driver default-01.
29	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	It doesn’t take it. I’m not coming there because of the alarm.
29	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that, Nico.
31	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton has caught Button. Am I in a rush to get past him?
31	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Negative, Lewis. Negative.
31	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Hamilton and Button collide at the hairpin, leaving Hamilton with front wing damage. Hamilton just hit me at the rear.
31	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Understood, Jenson. Understood.
31	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Damaged my front wing. I thought he was letting me past. I thought he was letting me past. He went really wide, so…
31	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK, no worries Lewis. We’re looking at the data. Everything looks OK at the moment.
31	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	I’ve lost quite a bit of downforce on my front wing.
32	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	It looked like he was letting me past, right?
32	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Affirm, Lewis. Did to us.
32	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Is there anything we can do? Can’t afford to change front wing, right?
32	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, we’re going to look at the strategy. We’ll just see where your pace is. We’re going to calculate something and see what we can do for you.
33	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	And Kevin, nice job getting past Kvyat. We need fuel-7, target zero on the dash. Fuel-7, target zero.
34	Kimi Raikkonen	David Lloyd	The left-front is very bad. Very bad. It doesn’t want to turn the car at all.
34	David Lloyd	Kimi Raikkonen	We need another four laps on this set. Four laps.
34	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Struggling with the rear and graining on the front now.
34	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy copy.
34	Kimi Raikkonen	David Lloyd	Agitated We have to stop! We have to stop! The front-left is completely gone! We are losing [unclear]
35	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	You need to give me info on what our plan is.
35	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, you are P8. Hulkenberg in front is yet to pit, as is Ricciardo. And our plan is to run this tyre. We are still Plan-A.
36	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	OK Kevin, car in front is Maldonado. You’re one second a lap faster than him.
37	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Left-front is already struggling.
37	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Come on, Checo. We need to get past the Sauber. And then settle down into this stint. Traffic is costing us graining as well. Adding to our problems.
38	Jean-Eric Vergne	Xevi Pujolar	I’m losing so much time, I’m struggling like hell.
38	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	Understood. Stand by, we’ll let you know.
38	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	OK. Box now, Jev. Box.
39	Max Chilton	Gary Gannon	I’m trying everything here! The car’s giving me nothing, it’s so unbalanced.
39	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So Lewis, at the stop, we’re thinking we’ll try and add as much balance as we can with the wing that you have. It will lose us time if we change the wing.
40	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Really struggling with the left-front now.
40	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK mate, good job. Let’s catch up with Button now. You’re minus four, Button.
41	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton front-left mage meant his tyre was wearing more quickly, eventually leading the team to abandon his planned two-stop strategy. How many laps have I done on this stint?
41	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Twelve laps. Twelve laps on this tyre.
41	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	This front-left is not going to last.
41	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis we’ll have to start looking at other options then.
41	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Bottas pits from second You’ll be racing Alonso and Vettel. They’re just coming into Turn 1 now.
42	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian, we need a little bit more fuel. A little bit more fuel.
42	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Tell me what you want. Do you want me to pass or you want to save fuel, like a duck?
42	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	We just need a little bit more fuel. Target plus 02. Respect the beeps in turn 13.
43	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, so box, box. Box, box. Push as much as you can. We’re splitting this now.
43	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	OK Pastor, now it’s really crucial that we make these tyres last. The cars around us…
43	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	Copy.
43	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	We think the cars around us are doing extra stops.
43	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Hamilton pits for Super Soft tyres OK Lewis, so you’ll be on 13 lap stints, we think. Thirteen laps. So we need to manage them. We will need to manage them, but we should have good pace.
44	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So for information, Nico, Bottas is the next car. He is on Super Softs, so we think he is on a different strategy to you. So just important, look after that left front.
46	David Lloyd	Kimi Raikkonen	So at the moment, if we go to the end, it’s going to be difficult or maybe possible. Fernando is going for a three-stop, definitely. Magnussen will have to stop again.
46	Kimi Raikkonen	David Lloyd	OK, but would have been nice to know earlier.
47	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	Kvyat has pulled off circuit with his engine in flames Loss of power. Loss of power.
47	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	Understood
47	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	Park the car, Daniil. Park the car. No gearbox. No gearbox. Switch off the engine. Switch off, Daniil. Switch off. P1 immediately. There is fire. Jump off the left-hand side. Fire.
48	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	And we’re not expecting any rain before the end of the race.
49	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Is my pace good enough?
49	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Yes Lewis. Pace is good. Pace is good.
49	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Give me a little information on the race. Who are we racing? What position are we racing for?
49	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	OK, so Ricciardo, you are racing, who is behind. He has just stopped. He’s on Soft tyres, seven laps newer than your Soft tyres. You are plus six seconds to Ricciardo. Plus six seconds.
49	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	What position are we racing him for?
49	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	We’re in P7 at the moment, but Button ahead is likely to stop again.
50	Adrian Sutil	Marco Schupbach	Sutil has spun at the final corner and the Sauber is stranded on the circuit There’s something wrong on the car. Something’s wrong on the paddle.
50	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	OK. Understood. Pity.
52	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Still yellow, turn 17. Sutil’s car is still there on the inside. Still yellow, turn 17.
53	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Give me feedback on the tyre from your side.
53	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Feels like we can make it to the end, but it’s not going to be easy. I’m not going to be able to push.
53	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Copy that. So just keep managing the pace to get to the end. We need to manage the pace now to get to the end.
54	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So Bottas is zero on your pit window. Bottas zero on your pit window.
54	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK, so you’re pulling Bottas inside your pit window.
54	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So you’re still reeling in Bottas, he’s well inside your pit window now. Keep doing– we’ve got double yellow now. Double yellow. Caution, car on the track.
54	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So, caution. Marshalls on track. Yeah, affirm Lewis.
54	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Do I need to be pushing and killing my tyres, or?
54	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, so you’re still pulling the cars in. You’re still pulling the cars in your pit window. So what you’re doing is just good. So regardless, we are going to the end on this set So that’s going to need some management. We’ve got 15 laps to go.
55	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	OK, Kimi is in. Kimi and Magnussen in. Push, Checo. You’ll be racing Kimi. You’ll be racing Kimi.
56	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	OK Kevin, we can push these tyres to the end of the race. Keep targetting zero on the target dash.
56	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So Bottas is seven seconds down the road. You are 1.8 seconds a lap faster.
57	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, so we’re racing Hulkenberg. Hulkenberg, four seconds behind.
58	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Bottas, five seconds ahead. You are one and a half seconds a lap faster. So Lewis, this should be an easy catch. We just need to get the tyre to the end.
59	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	For info, next car behind is Hamilton. He’s about 1.2 seconds a lap faster. Let’s not race him hard, we need to get this tyre to the end. Let’s not race him and kill this tyre. Just look after this tyre and get to the end.
59	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	We believe Button may be staying out. His tyres are eight laps older than yours. Eight laps older than yours.
60	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Just be aware, Magnussen is a lapped car, but he is slightly faster than you at the moment on super soft tyres. He’s two seconds behind.
61	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian, we need target 0.02 until the end. Fuel target 0.02 until the end, required.
61	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Am I doing 0.04? Please confirm.
61	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	That is correct. Which is too much. This is too much, we need a smaller number.
61	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	OK, Sebastian, now we need more. We need zero on the dash. We need zero on dash.
61	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	So you can use the ‘overtake’ to try defending. Use ‘overtake’ to try defending if he attacks. But just bear in mind we’ve got to get this tyre to the end.
62	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK so we’re going to charge up the battery where we can’t get overtaken and then you can use overtake to defend.
63	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	So you can push a little bit harder. Tyres are looking OK. Little risk from behind, so let’s try and protect against Hamilton.
64	David Lloyd	Kimi Raikkonen	There could be some drops of rain in a minute or so. It should be very light.
65	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	So we’re plus 16 seconds to Button behind. Plus 16, so we should be comfy.
65	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	He’s too fast on the straight.
65	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Yeah, affirm Lewis. Don’t forget he had DRS on that straight.
66	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Fuel now minus zero two. We need more and more fuel saving, Sebastian.
66	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	Yeah, I’m burning all I have.
66	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	We need to save fuel! We need to save fuel!
67	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	I think we… well, we got the strategy a little bit wrong.
VL	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Great drive, Nico. Great drive! Well done!
VL	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Woohoo! Yes! Thank you! Thanks a lot, guys.
VL	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Really well done, well controlled. Most cars were on three-stop – you managed it with a two-stop… Incorrect information, Bottas also on a two-stop.
VL	Paddy Lowe	Nico Rosberg	Absolutely brilliant drive, Nico. Well done. Well done.
VL	Nico Rosberg	Paddy Lowe	Thank you, Paddy.
VL	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Amazing! That was fantastic! Beat a Mercedes fair and square! Unreal. Great drive, Valtteri. P2.
VL	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Phew! Thank you. They still were a little bit too quick, but glad to keep one of them behind. Thank you guys, again really really solid job.
VL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, great drive. Great drive. Excellent recovery from P20. Could’ve been a little bit better, could’ve been a whole lot worse.
VL	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Good job, Sebastian. Good job.
VL	Sebastian Vettel	Guillaume Rocquelin	OK, sorry for the misunderstanding there at the end.
VL	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	That’s alright.
VL	Christian Horner	Sebastian Vettel	Well done, Sebby. I think we got everything there was out of that. Well done. Some great moves there – the one on the inside of Alonso, that was big kahunas.
VL	Sebastian Vettel	Christian Horner	Thank you guys. It was a tough afternoon. Obviously we didn’t have the pace that we expected. So still plenty of work ahead.
VL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Good effort, mate. Very good recovery from where we were. Unforunately the race wasn’t one lap longer, but obviously we said the opposite last week. Good effort mate. Good drive.
VL	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Thanks guys. That was a fun battle.
VL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	OK, well done. Plenty of pickup on the tyres on the way in. P7, Nico. P7. Mode 12. Mode 12.
VL	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Good, thank you. Hard work that was. I don’t like to say it, but the car was an absolute dog today. The balance was nowhere. It was really bad.
VL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that Nico. I’m sure a lot of other cars were struggling out there as well. Our pace looked good, especially for the strategy we did. And we finished 30 seconds ahead of Sergio.
VL	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK, Jenson. Well done mate. That was pretty tough. Fuel’s OK so normal inlap, please. Normal inlap. Switches are good.
VL	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Thanks for your hard work, guys. Sorry it didn’t really come to much, but… yeah. Good job.
VL	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Cheers Jenson. Well done. And sorry it was tough, but we’ll do better next time.
VL	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	Obviously that was a bit of a disappointing result. P9. We were on for a very strong position at the start. Didn’t see what happened at the beginning, but I think you drove a good recovery to P9.
VL	Kevin Magnussen	Mark Temple	The thing with the first corner, not much I could do, I think. Anyway, good job this weekend.
VL	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	And P10, in the end. P10.
VL	Sergio Perez	Gianpiero Lambiase	Not our race then.

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26 comments on “2014 German Grand Prix team radio transcript”

Jeppis
23rd July 2014, 16:14

I think that it was Antonio Spagnolo this time in Kimi’s pit radio, not David Lloyd.
gdewilde (@gdewilde)
23rd July 2014, 16:38

Lap 58 – Peter Bonnington ==> Lewis Hamilton: Bottas, five seconds ahead. You are one and a half seconds a lap faster. So Lewis, this should be an easy catch. We just need to get the tyre to the end.

No it wasn’t Bonno :-p
1. N
  23rd July 2014, 20:15
  
  It was an easy catch, just not an easy pass.
2. Shrieker (@shrieker)
  23rd July 2014, 21:29
  
  It was an easy catch. OVertake is a different matter tho. He probably killed the front left too while catching him, owed to the front wing damage.
Captain Shuntalot (@f1withmyson)
23rd July 2014, 17:46

The call for “Menu magic, position one” was funny, and Lewis sounded utterly befuddled.
Yuriy
23rd July 2014, 17:46

25 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton OK Lewis, if we go to menu magic, position one. Menu magic, position one. Menu magic, position one. There’s no rush, this is just for the pit stop.
25 Lewis Hamilton Peter Bonnington I’ve never heard of that switch. Which one…

This one is funny :)
1. OOliver
  24th July 2014, 3:20
  
  I’ve heard Rosberg being asked to use the magic button in previous races, so obviously its on one car and either it has a different meaning on the other car or it doesnt exist and is just a code that means nothing
rm
23rd July 2014, 18:08

Guillaume Rocquelin >> Sebastian Vettel “We need to try to increase the gap to Alonso.”

Sebastian Vettel >> Guillaume Rocquelin “Yeah, tell that to my rear-left tyre.”

This was the most fuel-saving dominated race I can recall this season. I don’t think it adds anything to the proceedings.
Breno (@austus)
23rd July 2014, 20:18

I think it’s interesting no radio on Alonso about his last lap on 8th gear.
1. James_mc (@james_mc)
  23rd July 2014, 21:02
  
  Interestingly, the Ferrari team radio (particularly Alonso’s communiques) is conspicuous by its absence in most transcripts.
2. rm
  23rd July 2014, 21:27
  
  Given the several seasons long “Mystery of Fernando’s Missing Messages”, it would be more interesting and surprising if there WERE any such radio transcripts!
geekracer2000 (@geekracer2000)
23rd July 2014, 21:01

@keithcollantine
there is tiny typo in article above.

A similar situation unfolded at Sauber, where Sergio Perez was reminded in no uncertain terms about the importance of saving fuel. It was a difficult race for the Force India driver

Should say “A similar situation unfolded at Force India…”
bpacman (@bpacman)
23rd July 2014, 21:43

Tell me what you want. Do you want me to pass or you want to save fuel, like a duck?”

Ducks are well-known for being economical with their fuel…
1. YlliB
  23rd July 2014, 22:38
  
  @bpacman espetially easy on their tiers
2. rm
  24th July 2014, 0:02
  
  Presumably another one of those Germanisms which translates poorly into English.
Jack (@jmc200)
23rd July 2014, 22:04

“And we finished 30 seconds ahead of Sergio.”

I find stuff like this very interesting, a little pat on the back for the Hulk! I also like that Horner calls Vettel “Sebby”…
dvf
24th July 2014, 0:20

Love these transcripts, thanks a lot.
A.P.
24th July 2014, 6:26

The Unknown to Unknown about G-3 *may* be someone at McLaren – notice how Temple tells Magnussen to switch to “Golf-3” later.
A.P.
24th July 2014, 6:44

I feel that another way to interpret “That’s the last time I’m going to ask you, OK? I will not repeat it again” from GL to Checo is that GL is apologetic about this and is telling Checo that he will not ask him to lift-and-coast again. So this is the last time he will have to conserve fuel but afterwards he can go racing again. Maybe SP was irritable about having to conserve fuel at that stage – obviously the plan was to wait for the rain.
Sumedh
24th July 2014, 8:47

That conversation between Hulk and Brad Joyce on lap 29 is fun to read.
F1 can never a run a campaign for “do not text while driving”, can it?
1. dragoll (@dragoll)
  24th July 2014, 11:38
  
  rofl great call.
Vishal JAIN
24th July 2014, 8:48

OK, Checo. That’s 30 seconds. Commence the bite-point finds now. Two bite-point finds.

What are bite points?
1. Andy (@andycz)
  25th July 2014, 21:57
  
  Bite point is point where has chlutch best grip. So they’re finding it for the best possible start at the begin of the warm-up lap.
hamder
24th July 2014, 10:37

“18 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton So Bottas, two tenths faster, sector two. You’re forcast P2, even if Bottas overtakes.”

Here is a clue on something totally wrong with f1 today, drop the radios and strategy computers then put all in-race strategy decision on driver alone instead of deciding the result at lap 18.
1. Anthony Acosta
  29th July 2014, 20:35
  
  Yeah to much tech and not enough mechanics. Engineers are controlling the drivers. I wonder what would happen if you put back the clutch pedal in the foot well ?
Excuse me :D (@square-route)
24th July 2014, 12:02

@Keithcollantine
The small article at the top says:

A similar situation unfolded at Sauber, where Sergio Perez was reminded in no uncertain terms about the importance of saving fuel. It was a difficult race for the Force India driver, who at one stage was given a power boost to aid his attempt to pass Jean-Eric Vergne but wasn’t able to overtake the Toro Rosso.

Shouldn’t it be Force India there ??
…..
other than that, the radio transcripts are a great fun to read. Loved the ‘magic menu’ bit.