2014 Brazilian Grand Prix team radio transcript

It was another nip-and-tuck battle between then Mercedes drivers in Brazil – but this time it was won by Nico Rosberg.

Lewis Hamilton gave chase as best he could but skidded off at Descida do Lago while trying to gain enough time to jump ahead of his team mate.

“Sorry guys, brake bias too rearwards,” he explained on the radio after spinning off, before suggesting the tyres were only up to doing one flat-out lap at the end of the stint.

As we’ve seen on previous occasions this year, Rosberg prefers not to get too many reminders of the gap when his team mate is bearing down on him. However for much of the final stint the gap was non-existent, Hamilton breathing down Rosberg’s neck.

The Williams drivers were compromised by various problems in the pits. Felipe Massa had a pit lane speeding penalty and Valtteri Bottas had to modify his pit stop procedure to look after his engine. Later in the race he was also advised to alter his driving style in order to protect his motor.

However Jenson Button’s attempt to take advantage of their problems was impaired when he missed a call for him to pit on lap 50.

Here are the team radio messages from the Brazilian Grand Prix race coverage.

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2014 Brazilian Grand Prix team radio transcript

Lap*	From	To	Message
PR	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	We’ve got fairly busy procedures at the start of the race and it’s essential that they’re done in sequence. I think you know them. I’ll just go through them with you once, which is once the car is fired up and on the deck, two static, then you need to go to mode eight, limiter on, toggle torque, and do launch. You can toggle torque with a [unclear] if you want, that’s fine.
PR	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	The wind is, I think you felt it already, still blowing in your face when you brake for turn one. It’s coming from the front there. Intensity is not so high, bit higher than yesterday.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	How’s the temperature of the track?
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	It’s dropping a bit. 46[C] now.
PR	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	Grosjean was one of few drivers to start on the harder medium tyres, he is told which others are doing the same. Hulkenberg, Kvyat and Sutil from pit lane is on [mediums].
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	My gut feeling is that I need to be… I should put that wing back in.
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	You have lots of scope on the diff, Lewis.
FL	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	Warm the brakes to heat the tyres but cool the engine please.
FL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	So feedback on the start, please.
FL	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Feels slightly under-engaged, I think.
FL	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	All systems are good.
FL	Bernadette Collins	Jenson Button	And a bite point find and four burn-outs at the start of the pit entry.
2	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Track slippery turn two, there may be oil down in turn two.
3	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Small rear graining at the moment.
3	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Copy, small rear graining.
3	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	OK to push the engine
3	Jean-Eric Vergne	Xevi Pujolar	I have a lot of understeer.
4	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Just be mindful of these tyre temps. Rear right getting close to the limit.
5	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So Nico try and get brake balance forwards. Rear temperatures hotter than fronts. So rear is becoming a problem.
5	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	OK Jev let us know on tyre condition.
5	Jean-Eric Vergne	Xevi Pujolar	It’s OK so far.
6	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Massa was the first of the front-runners to pit. OK Felipe box now.
7	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Button was running behind Bottas. Both pitted on lap six and left in the same order. I think the car in front will be coming in the next lap.
7	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK Jenson.
7	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	But it’s whether we want to get in traffic.
7	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK Jenson. Box this lap. We will have a clear track, we will come down two turns.
7	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Roger. In this lap.
8	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson we could be racing cars at the pit exit.
8	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	You know what to do. Push, push.
8	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis box, box. [Medium] tyre, down two turns.
9	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	We’re going to be doing a long stint on these tyres. You know what to do.
9	Jean-Eric Vergne	Xevi Pujolar	OK now the deg is coming.
9	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	OK box now Jes, box.
10	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	The car ahead of Bottas is now Sutil. He’s on [medium] from the start of the race.
10	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	Perez had switched to medium tyres on lap six. So I think we can now gradually begin to increase our pace if you can.
11	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Massa was given a five-second penalty which he served at his second pit stop on lap 25. We have a stop-go penalty, we will serve this at the next pit stop but you need a five-second gap to the car behind.
11	Felipe Massa	Andrew Murdoch	I don’t understand what I have to do.
11	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK we’ve got a five-second stop and go penalty. We will serve it at the next pit stop.
11	Felipe Massa	Andrew Murdoch	OK. So we stay on the track, right?
11	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	Copy that, stay on track.
11	Felipe Massa	Andrew Murdoch	What happened?
11	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	It was for speeding in the pit lane. We need to increase the gap to the car behind. Five seconds. It’s now 2.2.
11	Felipe Massa	Andrew Murdoch	OK. So we stay on the track, right?
12	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	That right-rear’s now over temp. Need to do some management.
12	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Nice work.
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Front-right is getting a blister now.
15	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Right-rear temperature under control but still very hot. Last set worn to zero on the right-rear.
15	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	I have a vibration across the fronts, I think.
15	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	I don’t recall having a lock-up but I’ve got a vibration on my tyres.
15	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Yep we agree Lewis. It may be a bit of blistering but jut look after them as much as you can.
16	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Keep watching your mirrors for Raikkonen, he is catching you. I know you’re status six. If he gets much closer you might need to push on to Vettel to get DRS back.
16	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Sebastian, Daniel has dropped back. Drop back a little as well to save your tyres.
17	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Rear-left is graining. Front, think it’s OK.
18	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	One more lap, defend as good as you can.
18	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	It is a blister on the front-right.
18	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis if you can look after it as much as you can, just be careful with that front locking.
18	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Message sounds edited. Still too much understeer in this car. And oversteer.
18	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	We believe Sutil is in this lap.
19	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Good job. The [mediums] aren’t bulletproof at all. So they are overheating quite a lot. Make sure you look after them. I suggest keep the gap to Alonso.
21	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Everyone is struggling with deg so stint length is critical.
21	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	People who started on [mediums] are starting to pit. Some people have blistered the right-front on [mediums]. Deg is a bit higher than we expected but nobody is really struggling. How is the balance?
21	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	It started off with understeer but now as I start to push the understeer is still there. I this rear’s always going to be the determining factor. But so far it’s manageable.
22	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus switched both drivers from planned-two stop strategies to three stops. We’re going to go plan B.
22	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	Copy that.
23	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	For your information the Williams is not very good on cold tyres.
23	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Understood Jenson.
23	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Pace is looking good, Valtteri.
24	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Lewis pushing hard, gap to Lewis 1.8.
25	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Hulkenberg is told the strategies of the cars in front of him is one soft tyre stint followed by three stints on mediums. He did three stints on mediums then one on softs. So we think all cars ahead are on soft triple-medium except for Grosjean who looks like he’s trying to two-stop.
25	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So let us know what aero adjust you want down for the stop.
25	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Down 0.4.
25	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK Felipe we’ll box this lap.
26	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Starting to lose the rears a little bit. Is it overheating or is itnot hot enough?
26	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson that is overheating. Massa also… Massa’s in. Massa’s pitted. Let’s push. Target minus two.
27	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Big oversteer.
28	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	You’ll be close to Magnussen at pit out.
28	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Vettel made his second pit stop early on lap 24. It jumped him past three drivers, all of which he finished the race ahead of. You’re clear. You’ve also cleared Bottas who had a bad pit stop. You cleared Magnussen and Bottas. You’re now clear of Alonso. So settle in your pace, Alonso is doing low 16. 16.1 Alonso.
28	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Rosberg pitted, then Hamilton spun at Descida do Lago while trying to build up enough of a gap to jump ahead of him. OK so you can reduce your pushing. The other car has gone… made a mistake.
29	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Button was 3.5 seconds behind Massa before their second pit stops. Massa made his pit stop first, and despite having to serce a five-second penalty he stayed ahead of Button. Has Massa served his penalty?
29	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Yes Massa has served his penalty. Car in front Kvyat, ten-lap old [mediums].
30	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Sorry guys, brake bias too rearwards.
30	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Don’t worry Lewis, all is not lost mate. Keep cracking on, just manage it early in the stint.
30	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Williams alter the pit stop procedure for Bottas to protect his engine. OK we need to go to neutral in the stop and an easy pull-away. Don’t find the hold revs. We need to look after the engine temps. You’ll get the signal, go on the lights.
31	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	How’s the balance now, Nico? This is a critical phase of the race so we need to be pushing as well as we can here.
31	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Not very good. I’m doing what I can.
32	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So just be aware your team mate is pushing quite hard. Gap is six seconds. Just remember to control the gap.
32	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	This pace is good, we are catching Raikkonen now.
34	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton advised his team the tyres won’t stand being pushed for two laps when they are very worn, as they were trying to do when he went off. Why not next time you tell me to push, and I only have one lap, use one lap of the tyre up, second lap there’s nothing left.
34	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	What are we doing on front wing next stop?
34	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	It’s another set of mediums, it’s up to you. From this side plus half a turn but it’s up to you.
34	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	No we’re not coming up, we need to go a bit lower on aero balance. The rear is a difficult tyre now.
37	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Gap to Lewis is 5.3.
37	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Don’t tell me the gap any more for a while, please.
37	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy.
38	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	How many laps?
38	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Rich 12.
39	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Car behind is now Vettel, his [medium] tyre is three laps older than yours.
40	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Ricciardo suspected he had a brake failure, it turned out to be a problem with his suspension, and it put him out. Yeah left-front brake’s gone, I can feel it start to wobble. Shall I just cruise back to the pits?
40	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Yeah understood Daniel. If you think it’s unsafe, stop the car. Otherwise drive back slowly.
40	Adrian Sutil	Marco Schupbach	The tyres are going down.
40	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	OK, is one more lap OK?
40	Marco Schupbach	Adrian Sutil	Quick. OK box, box.
40	Adrian Sutil	Marco Schupbach	OK.
41	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel we’re going to inspect the car, box this lap. Will be a slow pit stop. We’ll let you know if we’re going to send you again.
41	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	I’m pretty sure it’s done.
41	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel switch off, please, switch off.
41	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	OK. Yeah, so started to feel basically a wobble on the brakes for the last five laps.
41	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	We’ll have a bit more of a chat when you jump out.
41	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK.
43	Antonio Spagnolo	Kimi Raikkonen	It’s close to be a two-stop. If we can manage to [unclear] this run until the end. We need around four laps, four laps more we need.
43	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Do you think we need to stop? Is this tyre dead.
43	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddollls	Yeah we have maybe one lap left so we better stop.
43	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Copy. Box now.
44	Daniil Kvyat	Marco Matassa	I’m a lot quicker than Jev, I can get past Hulkenberg.
45	Gianpiero Lambiase	Sergio Perez	You are free to push now on these tyres if you can, if there’s anything left in it Checo.
45	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Any extra laps we do in this stint will help us in the next one.
46	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Is everything OK?
46	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Yes, Jenson, this is good.
46	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Gap to Lewis is 2.5. It’ll be rich 3 at the end of this lap.
46	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	We need at least six more timed laps from this tyre set.
47	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Right Sebastian we would like two hard laps now please. Your right-rear is on the limit, I appreciate that. So two laps as fast as you can.
49	Guillaume Rocquelin	Sebastian Vettel	Box, torque map one and box, Careful on pit entry, it’s very slippery.
49	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	JB Vettel’s pitted, let’s push now.
50	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson it’ll be 22 laps. The next tyre is a new one.
51	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	McLaren tried to bring Button in on the lap before Massa, but he failed to make it in and they came in on the same lap. In this lap or not?
51	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Box, box this lap.
51	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Too late, too late.
51	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson we are box this lap. Push, push.
51	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Box this lap.
52	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Lewis exiting the box now, should be safe by 1.5 seconds.
53	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	And Jenson car in front is Raikkonen on six-lap-old [medium]. He may go to the end, we need to overtake him.
53	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	OK.
53	Andrea Stella	Fernando Alonso	Box now, box, Start map on.
54	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	How many laps did we do on the last set of tyres?
54	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	22 laps. And Jenson that was a used set, this is new.
55	Marco Matassa	Daniil Kvyat	Absolutely good job on fuel and tyres, Dany, keep going.
56	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Just think about protecting that right-rear, Lewis, it is getting hot.
56	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	Bottas continued to manage his engine problem. We need to use a lower gear in turn ten [Bico de Pato] for the engine, remember torque nine for more push if you need.
57	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK Felipe 15 laps to go, just keep managing the tyres.
58	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Now the rear feels good again.
58	Xevi Pujolar	Jean-Eric Vergne	Rear tyre temperatures still high. Next two cars behind Rosberg and Hamilton, you’ll get blue flags soon.
59	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Tyres looks good, that was a good lap time. We think Kimi behind is going to the end. We’re now racing Magnussen, we outpaced him on that lap, two-tenths.
60	Jonathan Eddollls	Valtteri Bottas	For info, behind Pastor are Rosberg and Hamilton who are battling for the lead. So they’ll be going through Pastor shortly, and we need to look out for them. I’ll keep you advised. Respect engine speed turn ten.
61	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	For info car in front is Kvyat. He will have to pit again as he’s not yet run a [soft]. There’s also Hulkenberg, who’s currently just inside our pit gap. He too will have to pit and fit a [soft]. We will be racing Hulkenberg at the end.
63	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	OK next car behind is Button, he’s P4 and he’s 12 seconds behind you.
65	Mark Temple	Kevin Magnussen	Hulkenberg’s tyres will deg off at the end of the race. Let’s give it everything to keep him behind now, he will struggle at the end.
65	Andrew Murdoch	Felipe Massa	We need a bit more management on the rear tyres.
67	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Grosjean retired. Loss of power.
67	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	OK we are looking, scenario 11.
67	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Do I retire? There’s smoke fromther back of the car.
67	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	OK stop the car.
67	Romain Grosjean	Ayao Komatsu	Yeah [unclear]
67	Ayao Komatsu	Romain Grosjean	OK try to stop close to fire marshal please. P1 then wait for ten seconds, then go to P0 please.
VL	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Well done Nico, good job, great job out there in difficult conditions. Strat one, charge the battery, really good job Nico.
VL	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Thanks a lot guys, great job.
VL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Well done Lewis, great effort there mate, great racing. Just sorry about that stop.

Due to a technical problem a small number of messages from after the end of the race are omitted.

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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6 comments on “2014 Brazilian Grand Prix team radio transcript”

gdewilde (@gdewilde)
14th November 2014, 12:55
I doubt that the one lap earlier pit stop for Jenson would have made a difference in the end though. Massa’s straight line speed should have secured P3 anyway. It would have, however, given the viewers a nice fight for the final podium step perhaps..
Jeevan (@jee1kimi)
14th November 2014, 13:00
If prize money were awarded based on the number of radio messages,Ferrari would have been poorer than Caterham or Marussia..
I know this isn’t a complete list of radio message that are exchanged during the race,but still,very low compared to others.
Honestly,doesn’t Kimi and Alonso have ANYTHING to ask their radio guys?
1. Tony Hamilton (@tonybananas)
  14th November 2014, 13:40
  yeah I was thinking Ferrari must be censoring the transcripts
  1. TheBullWhipper (@thebullwhipper)
    14th November 2014, 17:48
    I think Ferrari use a lot of Italian language in their messages so they are less likely to be played on air as this transcript is only of the messages broadcast on the pit channel, not all radio traffic in total as some teams say they send and receive over 300 messages during the race.
    This still gives a great insight into what goes on in the cockpit and pit wall.
2. ed
  14th November 2014, 17:48
  They’re out of the spotlight and still censor most of the messages. Great team.
  We can say goodbye to Vettel’s radio messages. And hello to more from Alonso next year.
rm
14th November 2014, 18:18
Some strangely mixed messages from RB to their two drivers.
Lap 21 (to SV) “Everyone is struggling with deg so stint length is critical.”
Lap 21 (to DR) “Deg is a bit higher than we expected but nobody is really struggling.”
Lap 16 (to DR) “If (KR) gets much closer you might need to push on to Vettel to get DRS back.” (That is, speed up)
Lap 16 (to SV) “Sebastian, Daniel has dropped back. Drop back a little as well to save your tyres.” (That is, slow down)