2014 Russian Grand Prix team radio transcript

2014 Russian Grand Prix

15th October 2014, 11:4515th October 2014, 12:05 | Written by Will Wood

The uneventful Russian Grand Prix was scarcely any more interesting on the radios.

With drivers preoccupied with fuel saving (such as Daniil Kvyat and Sergio Perez), untroubled by tyre wear and seldom involved in battles for positions with their rivals, there was noticeably less broadcast between them and their engineers.

The championship contenders saw little of each other on-track, but Lewis Hamilton was still keen to be updated on his team mate’s progress after Nico Rosberg recovered to second place.

Rosberg’s rivals were surprised he was able to make it to the end of the race with the set of tyres he put on after his first lap lock-up. Jenson Button expressed scepticism about the strategy early on and even as late as lap 36 Williams expected him to pit again.

But it was the general lack of radio intrigue which said most about this race. Since the radio restrictions were introduced in Singapore we have heard busy races on the radios, but in Russia it was noticeably quieter.

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2014 Russian Grand Prix team radio transcript

Lap*	From	To	Message
PR	Craig Gardiner	Esteban Gutierrez	Ten minutes to go.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	So Jock, just to double-check, that lap through was the best through turn three – it wasn’t just ’cause I got a good exit, right?
PR	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	No, it was about a tenth difference from what you were doing.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	Referring to Rosberg How was my fuel usage compared to his on those three laps? Was it good?
PR	Jock Clear	Lewis Hamilton	Err, there’s nothing I can say, really. No possibility to compare.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Jock Clear	No reply broadcast OK. But mine was OK?
PR	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	OK Checo, so tyre update – Sutil, directly behind you in P14, starting on Medium and the also from Massa backwards, OK? So Massa in P18, Kobayashi, Maldonado and Chilton at the back of the grid, also started on Medium. But the immediate car sorrounding you, Sutil, on Medium.
FL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK, so we need to work the tyres, we need to work the brakes, and we’re going to turn brake magic on.
1	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Rosberg has a major lock-up into Turn 1 and misses the corner Nico, you need to give the position back to Lewis now, please.
1	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Yeah, and I’m going to have to box because of vibrations.
2	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Charge four, urgent. Charge four, urgent.
2	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	We think we need to go to the end on this set, Nico. But we need to catch the back of the field up. Massa has also stopped –
2	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Interrupting What is the tyres that I have?
2	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	You’re on medium tyres. You’re on medium tyres.
3	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	Tyre temperature high, Jev.
3	Jean-Eric Vergne	Xevi Pujolar	I’m so slow in the straight, let me drive.
3	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	OK, so we’ll settle down. It’ll be good if we could break Guttierrez’s DRS. He’s on Soft tyres behind.
4	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So you’re doing a good job there, Nico. Catching the back of the pack up. You’re pulling people out of your Safety Car window.
4	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	You have Rosberg and Massa behind who have both already pitted. Rosberg and Massa behind.
5	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Everything feels OK for Plan-A.
6	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Gap to Alonso 0.8.
6	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Yeah, I don’t need reminding when he’s this close.
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Ricciardo, who is in contention for the title. is behind team mate Vettel, who isn’t. Losing a lot of time.
7	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK, understood.
7	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	Safety Car window is open.
7	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Good lap. Ericsson on [softs] 47.3, Kobayashi [medium] 48.9, Kobayashi 28 seconds ahead.
8	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	So I’m driving in a way that I can get to the end of the race, for your information.
9	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Gap to Alonso 2.5, well done mate.
9	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	We’re about eight tenths off Guti, we try to do four or five more laps.
10	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So gap to Bottas steady at 2.9. You’re now in your Safety Car window.
10	Max Chilton	Gary Gannon	Chilton I can’t work out what the problem is! The front-left is shaking up and down. Either failed suspension or brake disc.
10	Gary Gannon	Max Chilton	Understood, Max. Understood. In now.
11	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	And Kevin, we are in the window. Confirm.
11	Kevin Magnussen	Mark Temple	In the window, OK.
12	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	OK Checo. Fuel strategy one now, please. And it’s a very good pace at this stage. Similar pace to the cars ahead on Soft tyres.
12	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson, Rosberg aiming to run to the end on this Medium tyres. How are your tyres?
12	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	It’s too early for Rosberg to do that, I think. It’s too early for Rosberg.
13	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So Nico, happy with this pace. Half a second slower than Lewis, last lap. Remember the tyre difference. Just keep getting through these cars.
14	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Rosberg is challenging Hulkenber for 12th place Don’t lose time with Rosberg.
14	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Rosberg has passed Hulkenberg So just keep that up, Nico. We believe we’re in a position for a podium, so just get passed Gutierrez.
14	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	I’m still driving to get to the end of the race.
14	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy. Copy.
15	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	OK Romain. Continue to push.
16	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	So far, locking looks OK on the front. Just have an eye on the front locking, you know what to do.
16	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian, fuel is exactly what we want it to be. Keep doing the same things. Good job.
17	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	And Kevin, white-hotel-seven, position five. White-hotel-seven, position five. We can push the tyres a little bit harder. Push the wear a little bit more. Pace, minus three.
18	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson we think plan A target lap. How are the tyres?
18	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Still the same.
18	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Everything’s looking great.
18	Tim Wright	Kamui Kobayashi	Kobayashi’s car was retired on lap 22 with what the team said was a brake problem. Kamui, you are racing Sutil. You are on plan B. Strategy plan B.
19	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So just pick your pace up a little bit, Nico, to keep Button outside your pit stop window.
19	Craig Gardiner	Esteban Gutierrez	Oil button. Pace is good. Looks like these tyres are hanging on. The mediums… Hulkenberg behind lapping 45.5 – so similar pace to us. How are the tyres?
19	Esteban Gutierrez	Craig Gardiner	For now, is quite good.
19	Craig Gardiner	Esteban Gutierrez	Copy. Keep it up.
20	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK mate, this is good stuff. We need to target low 44s at this stage. Target low 44s.
20	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	OK Checo. Whit e mix one and fuel strategy two. Let’s not waste too much time with Rosberg, certainly don’t slide your tyres.
21	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	The balance is really good. Quite neutral. It’s good. Tyres still good.
21	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Last few laps are good.
21	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Am I still driving in a way to get to the end?
21	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Jenson is just outside your pit window, so you’re OK at the moment. So continue driving like that at the moment.
22	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Feeling quite a lot of degradation.
22	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy that.
22	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Balance of the tyres are really good still. They feel like they’re not really dropping off at all.
22	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	OK, try to stay on this pace. In front of us is Maldonado. We can up the power once we’re there, he’s on Mediums since the start.
22	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So start locking up the rears more with brake balance.
22	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	Too much under-rotation front locking. Brake, one-three.
22	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	Understood. Understood.
23	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, launch map on, apply the brakes at the stop.
23	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So, Jenson on new medium tyres. Need to keep him behind.
24	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	Dany we need to follow the target – 1.85. 1.85.
25	Kevin Magnussen	Mark Temple	The tyres are really good. There’s a lot of grip still.
25	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	Yep understood.
25	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel, you’ll be very close to Vettel when he pits. We need to make this count. You’re doing a good job. Status-ten.
26	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK Felipe, just try keeping the pressure on Perez.
26	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, Alonso has pitted. Racing Alonso, pit exit.
27	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Box box.
28	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK mate, very good job. Need to keep pushing.
29	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK Felipe, everybody we’re racing is on the Mediums. We’re on the Softs, we’re in a good position.
30	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian you need to respect the beeps. Fuel mileage is marginal. Respect all the beeps.
30	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Bottas will have DRS from Vettel at the moment.
30	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	I hit the kerb at the last corner, check the load.
30	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy.
32	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	So for info Rosberg fitted these [medium] tyres on lap one, so he’s going to get [degradation]. We’ll get him back.
32	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel, you did a good job in that portion of the race. Very good job. Alonso ahead is on five lap old Mediums.
33	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	How is the balance?
33	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Holding up OK at the moment. Yeah, had a bit of push on the front, so just trying to manage that. And then just manage the rear on exit.
33	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel, Rosberg has done over 30 laps on Mediums and is the fastest car on the track. Rosberg has done over 30 laps, he’s very quick. These tyres should be good.
33	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	And let us know how the tyres are on the wear.
33	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Tyres are coming back a bit at the moment.
34	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	OK Dany we are critical on fuel, we need engine 11.
35	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So Nico plan B.
36	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	19 laps to go. We believe Rosbreg is pushing and will do another stop.
36	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Kvyat ahead on Medium is struggling. Massa and Perez have just overtaken him.
36	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	You’re doing a good job, Nico. Fastest lap of the race.
36	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	I mean, the tyres still feel really good.
38	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	I have massive vibration. Really big one.
39	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	You’re doing a good job on the fuel, Sebastian. Keep plugging at it.
40	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Do you think you can get these tyres to the end of the race?
40	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Affirm, yes easy. Well, not easy but they feel good for now.
40	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	How’s the fuel looking?
40	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Fuel is +0.8. We don’t want to eat too much into it, but you can reduce lift-and-coast for tyre temps if you want.
41	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton asks about Rosberg in second place. Has he got anyone pressuring him?
41	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Negative, Lewis. Negative. He’s in free air.
41	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	And Jenson, last lap fuel consumption, good.
42	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	We need to look after the fuel strategy now please, to the end. This is absolutely critical, Checo, absolutely critical now.
42	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Chassis nine, P11. And don’t hit the DRS button too early. Last couple of times, it was too early.
43	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	And Jenson we think cars are now going to run ’til the end.
43	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So, information, Bottas is pushing harder now. So targetting +0.5 on the delta time to equal his laptimes.
45	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Increase the fuel stategy by another step. This is desperate now, mate, it is desperate.
45	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	And Jenson, we are no longer in the window. No longer in the window, confirm?
45	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Confirm!
46	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	OK, cars ahead now starting to struggle with fuel, so keep pushing.
50	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	I have to stay in DRS zone otherwise I think I’ll lose him.
51	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Checo, fuel strategy…
52	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	OK Sebastian, don’t get away from the fuel, OK? Respect the fuel please.
VL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Awesome drive Lewis! Awesome drive mate! Absolute masterclass. Great job there Lewis. Just keep the revs up, pal. Awesome job.
VL	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Congratulations to the team on the constructors’ championship! Great job, man. History in the making.
VL	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So strat one, pick up rubber. Great drive Nico. Great recovery. Well done mate.
VL	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Sorry guys, that was very unnecessary. But thank you for the unbelievable car, to be able to recover from that!
VL	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	P3. Another podium! Great job. I think that was the best we could’ve achieved today. Fantastic drive.
VL	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Thanks guys. Well done.

Lap: Refers to lap message was broadcast on. There may be a delay between messages being said and being broadcast. PR = pre-race; FL = formation lap; VL = victory lap.
Message: Repetitive or irrelevant messages omitted. Notes in italics. Highlights in bold.

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43 comments on “2014 Russian Grand Prix team radio transcript”

Akhilesh (@graywizzard)
15th October 2014, 12:16

are teams still allowed to inform which tyres others are on at the start? and others race progress?
Supremacy (@supremacy)
15th October 2014, 12:24

“Has he got anyone pressuring him?”

So Rosberg’s weakness is being pressured…. :D
1. Woody (@woodyd91)
  15th October 2014, 15:39
  
  Which is surprising for the media proclaimed “professor number 2”.
2. DaveW (@dmw)
  15th October 2014, 16:46
  
  I thought that was Hamilton’s clever way of asking whether Rosberg was on the march against him or just holding on with his old tires. Or…it was real moment of pique when he realized that the guy who ran off the road in front of him like a GP2 rookie was actually going to finish second. In retrospect, as it turned out, Hamilton was possibly under treat from an SC period—he would have to pit by rule.
3. Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
  15th October 2014, 23:53
  
  Isn’t everyone’s to a degree?
ColdFly F1 (@)
15th October 2014, 12:31

Isn’t that a blatant infringement by Vettel’s team on lap 30: “Sebastian you need to respect the beeps. Fuel mileage is marginal. Respect all the beeps”?
They cannot advise on ‘gear selection in general’ according to the rules.
1. James (@iamjamm)
  15th October 2014, 12:49
  
  The beeps don’t relate to gear selection, they’re to indicate to the driver when to lift and coast to save fuel, I believe. I also think they’ve been told that messages relating to fuel saving are ok.
2. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  15th October 2014, 13:24
  
  @coldfly He had much the same message at Singapore after the new rules came in, so there’s precedent.
  1. ColdFly F1 (@)
    15th October 2014, 13:40
    
    @iamjamm, @keithcollantine, thanks! It remains confusing though.
    1. Bobby (@f1bobby)
      15th October 2014, 20:45
      
      It does.
ColdFly F1 (@)
15th October 2014, 12:36

I don’t think Kevin’s girlfriend will be happy that her message to him with the plans for that night were broadcast to the whole world – “Kevin, white-hotel-seven, position five.” ;-)
1. Atticus (@atticus-2)
  15th October 2014, 13:24
  
  Haha, epic. :)
2. activewings (@activewings)
  15th October 2014, 18:38
  
  but… http://i.imgur.com/scu6YoT.jpg
Armchair Expert (@armchairexpert)
15th October 2014, 13:34

“2 Nico Rosberg Tony Ross Interrupting What is the tyres that I have?
2 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg You’re on medium tyres. You’re on medium tyres.”

Is that a joke or apparently intelectually superior Nico Rosberg couldn’t figure out white markings on his tyres mean he was on mediums and since he didn’t use them in quali, they were new set?
1. Neo
  15th October 2014, 13:43
  
  Nico Rosberg is one of the worst drivers that I have ever seen but the media keeps portraying him as a great driver which is a joke.
  1. Colossal Squid (@colossal-squid)
    15th October 2014, 14:19
    
    “Nico Rosberg is one of the worst drivers that I have ever seen”
    
    So have you enjoyed watching your first two races? Always nice to see new fans!
    1. Neo
      15th October 2014, 15:04
      
      Yes, he’s average at best but that’s just my opinion and I have been watching f1 for 18 years.
      1. Jack (@jmc200)
        15th October 2014, 18:24
        
        Yeah, it is just your opinion. I’m sure there are lots of other “average at best” F1 drivers who’ve won the Monaco Grand Prix twice. Honestly…
      2. alanore
        15th October 2014, 19:50
        
        If Rosberg is average at best then what does that make Hamilton?
      3. Karthik Mohan
        16th October 2014, 6:23
        
        @Alanore… A world champion, and arguably the fastest driver this decade, as agreed by a number of people who know F1 better than you or me.
        
        @Jack… Olivier Panis won the Monaco GP too… Hardly sets the precedent for who’s a better driver, does it? And regarding race victories, how many races has Nico won where Lewis hasn’t had an issue? Or how many races has Nico won in a straight battle with Lewis?
  2. ngwe23
    15th October 2014, 15:03
    
    That’s what happens when you are matched with one of the best driver. Happened to Massa and Button. Not its happening to Nico. I do think however that Nico is not as bad as you describe him. He is just not championship material.
    1. Woody (@woodyd91)
      15th October 2014, 15:29
      
      For me, The difference between Lewis & Nico is, let’s say for example the Red Bull & Ferrari were close to or matching the Merc’s performance, Hamilton would be able to fight for the championship, Nico would crumble under the pressure. We saw it in 2013, Nico was out scored and out performed in a team he had been at since 2010, in a car that was built around him. Lewis jumps into the car & new team with new race engineers and delivers some great performances & a win. Nico’s win in 2013 was handed to him when Vettel retired, he wasn’t catching or pressuring him, it just fell in his hands. It’s not hard to drive a car to it’s limits, but it’s the mark of a true racer that can get more out of the car than what it wants to offer the driver.
      
      Nico isn’t a bad driver, he is not the worst on the grid but he just isn’t a special driver, and for as much as the media would like to portray him as the thinking “professor number 2” he hasn’t displayed that at all this season. Pressured into mistakes, silly moves on lap 1 of a race. I remember Brundle saying repeatedly before the season starts that Nico would benefit from being a thinker, and how he would use the tyres, manage fuel etc better than Lewis, what’s actually happened is the reverse, Lewis has learnt to manage the tyres, he consistently uses less fuel than Nico.
      
      Lewis is far from perfect, but he will be talked about in 20 years time (for the good and the bad), in the same way we talk about prost,senna,mansell etc… Nico on the other hand wont be.
      1. Sam Gretchen
        16th October 2014, 14:05
        
        Nico had triple the retirements/mechanical faults Hamilton did in 2013.
      2. Woody (@woodyd91)
        17th October 2014, 3:35
        
        But that’s only looking at one part of performance, Hamilton’s race positions were consistently higher than Nico’s, 5 podium places to 3 and same with qualifying as well. Also in terms of retirements Nico had 3 to Hamiltons 1 but then you have to take into account the blow out at silverstone where Lewis was leading, or his cracked chassis in Abu Dhabi etc. Also when Hamilton retired or tyre blew out he was leading the race, Nico’s was when he retired. There is more to take into account than simple retirements.
        
        Comparing both drivers in the same car and you get a picture, I mean, Hamilton has had more retirements and mechanical failures than Nico but has won 9 races to Nico’s 4.
      3. John
        19th October 2014, 20:17
        
        Absolutly spot on.
2. Martin
  15th October 2014, 14:13
  
  Im not sure if given the seating position and the front geometry of the w05 that Rosberg would be able to see the markings on his tyres. I know that visibility is fairly limited for the front of the car in general (Spa).
3. Peter Anderson (@petea)
  15th October 2014, 15:13
  
  In NR’s defence, the white markings maybe on the outside only, so not visible from the cockpit. I take your point about his intellect, being multilingual and good at suduku (possibly) counts for nothing if you are repeatedly being out thought on the race track.
  1. Woody (@woodyd91)
    15th October 2014, 15:37
    
    The tyres are marked on both the outside and the inside. Interesting point on the language though, because I remember Lewis last year mentioning It’s difficult sometimes when Nico can talk the native language, have you noticed this year, whenever we are at a race with a foreign language, Lewis has learnt just enough, or even a simple phrase to say on the podium? It’s just one of those areas that Lewis thought Nico had the edge on him, this year he has filled that gap, same with fuel & tyres. Lewis isn’t any where near as dumb as the media would like to display at times.
  2. manu
    15th October 2014, 17:05
    
    You can see the tyres from the cockpit by looking to the side of the car, you can also feel the slight reduction in grip as well. I don’t know whether he forgot which tyres were being used that weekend, or asked the question while he was still in the pits.
4. Karthik Mohan
  16th October 2014, 6:26
  
  I am a Lewis Hamilton fan, and I am sick of comments like yours. What’s the point?
DaveW (@dmw)
15th October 2014, 16:06

What is brake magic?

Bonno to Hamilton: OK, so we need to work the tyres, we need to work the brakes, and we’re going to turn brake magic on.

Maybe Rosberg could have done with some magic brakes too.
1. Woody (@woodyd91)
  15th October 2014, 17:43
  
  All the magic in the world couldn’t have helped that.
2. Neil (@neilosjames)
  16th October 2014, 18:26
  
  Maybe it’s a little stick that jams itself into Rosberg’s brakes and makes them lock up?
Rigi (@rigi)
15th October 2014, 18:41

why aren’t there any qualifying team radio transcripts anymore?
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  15th October 2014, 20:00
  
  @rigi Because the amount of time it took to produce them want justified by the amount of interest they generated. Partly because if they went up before the race they were quickly relegated by newer stories. Any particularly significant messages tend to get mentioned in the qualifying report, Saturday in Tweets, or even dedicated articles as in the case of Grosjean’s outburst in Singapore.
  1. Rigi (@rigi)
    15th October 2014, 22:01
    
    @keithcollantine thanks for the explanation keith!
Bobby (@f1bobby)
15th October 2014, 20:47

It will be a travesty if Rosberg ‘double-points’ into this championship. Can’t bear the suspense, can’t wait ’til it’s over.
1. Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
  16th October 2014, 12:07
  
  I think it’d be perfect if Nico overcomes a 49 point deficit in the last race. It would show the absurdity of the rule and would hopefully lead to its abolishment.
  1. Adam Hardwick (@fluxsource)
    16th October 2014, 13:49
    
    It’s already being dropped for next year, so having that absurd situation won’t help anyone except Rosberg.
    1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      17th October 2014, 8:51
      
      @fluxsource @mike-dee
      
      It’s already being dropped for next year
      
      There’s been no official confirmation of that and at present it is still in the 2015 sporting regulations.
      1. Adam Hardwick (@fluxsource)
        17th October 2014, 8:53
        
        @keithcollantine Wishful thinking on my part then…
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
18th October 2014, 20:35

A few new bits of radio in the official highlights. They include Button being told Alonso had a slow pit stop; Alonso asking where Button was and being told (in Italian) that he was in fourth place (i.e. ahead of him); Rosberg saying “I need to go flat out to attack Bottas, is that what you want?” and then being told “two out of three, please”; Bottas saying “we need everything from the engine, we don’t have enough pace” while under pressure from Rosberg; Ricciardo being told “you know how to be fast, use it as you wish” and “if you can’t get past, think about having a breather and going again at the end”; and Alonso being told it was the final lap.
kenneth
19th October 2014, 1:02

@ keith…sorry to be nuisance but why is it that the monaco radio transcripts have never been released/published ?