Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, Albert Park, 2015

2015 Australian Grand Prix team radio highlights

2015 Australian Grand Prix

20th March 2015, 12:001st April 2015, 11:25 | Written by Keith Collantine

A faulty fuel read-out caused a minor scare for Lewis Hamilton as he romped to victory in the Australian Grand Prix.

Team mate Nico Rosberg was also trying to find out how much fuel was in Hamilton’s car – but had to be told the team couldn’t let him know because of the FIA’s restrictions on the content of radio messages.

It was a frustrating weekend for the Renault-engined cars – not just Red Bull but Toro Rosso as well, and rookie Max Verstappen made his dissatisfaction with the power unit clear during practice.

Life was even more difficult at McLaren. Jenson Button tried to bring some cheer to the team at the end of the race after they were the only team to see the chequered flag but fail to score a point. Earlier on during practice Button had also pointed out an encouraging early sign of the MP4-30’s cornering performance.

Review highlights of some of the notable team messages broadcast during the Australian Grand Prix weekend below.

First practice

Sesson	From	To	Message
FP1	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	The engine is breaking down a lot.
FP1	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	The level of power is really low.
FP1	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	OK copy that, we will have a look.
FP1	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	You can do a normal-paced in-lap, Nico.
FP1	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	What does ‘normal’ mean? Push?
FP1	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Affirm, push.
FP1	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	I’ve got a lot of limiter action on up-shifts. The brake judder is still there, not so good.
FP1	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Note: No out-lap page
FP1	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy, copy. So tyre temps are ten all around. Brakes starting to come up.
FP1	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Actually, correction, I do have it, it just doesn’t indicate the gear learning. So, correction, I do have the out-lap page.
FP1	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Note: I’m doing a bad job with the engine management. Keep an eye on that, keep pushing me.
FP1	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy, copy.
FP1	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	And obviously the wind as you said is having an effect. What woul;d you say, trying to ignore the wind, would be the main balance limitation of the car at the moment.
FP1	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddolls	For me it’s both understeer and oversteer because turn one was particularly oversteery, then turn three I’m losing a lot of time because of understeer. It’s the same, changing corner by corner, so I really cannot choose one.
FP1	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	I went off in turn one, that’s why that was not good.
FP1	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Understood, copy that, we saw that.
FP1	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis practice pit entry but we will use these tyres again, make sure the magic is cancelled.
FP1	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	The drive-ability’s really tricky. Tip-in’s really aggressive.
FP1	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Need to practice the start because putting the throttle down is very different, the throttle map is very different, so I’m not doing very good starts at the moment.
FP1	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis you’ve taken the flag so just watch out for the Virtual Safety Car.
FP1	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	It’s almost impossible to drive with this engine!
FP1	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Copy that.

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Second practice

Sesson	From	To	Message
FP2	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	Really strange feeling on the brakes.
FP2	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	OK, copy that.
FP2	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	DRS does not work.
FP2	Tom Stallard	Kevin Magnussen	Magnussen crashed at turn six. Kevin are you OK?
FP2	Kevin Magnussen	Tom Stallard	Yeah I’m completely fine.
FP2	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	The shifts are very slow.
FP2	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	I seem to have got a lot of understeer in the car, a lot of understeer.
FP2	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	I have no information on the gears, again the out-lap page didn’t work I believe. I need to know that before the start.
FP2	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	The front was a little bit better now but still not ideal. And also not very good lap but it’s going in the right direction.
FP2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	OK copy, understood Kimi.
FP2	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	Jenson we lost a bit of time starting the session late, I suggest if you’ve got a feel or this that we box and we’ll do the rear wing gurney and we’ll get onto the option tyre.
FP2	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber did not run in first practice and in the second session Ericsson limped back to the pits with an obvious suspension problem. OK the smoke is coming from the tyre, Marcus, it’s rubbing on the bodywork. If you can make it back, we can make it back.
FP2	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	Yeah I can make it back really slow.
FP2	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	OK, copy that.
FP2	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	There is no more power.
FP2	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	OK Pastor, we need to box.
FP2	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	We should go soon before we hit some long-runners.
FP2	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	That’s true Nico but we’ve got a bit of an issue, just sorting out the front wing. I’d rather get that right.
FP2	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Having been delayed in joining the track for his run on the soft tyres, Hulkenberg didn’t feel the need to do an extra lap one them. I’m going to box this lap.
FP2	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	You don’t want to see if the tyres get any better for the final one? I don’t mind, it’s up to you.
FP2	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	I’m pretty sure they don’t.
FP2	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Feedback on the start, box for another start.
FP2	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Start was very good, just a little bit too much wheel spin later on for some reason.
FP2	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	That start was worse. Under-engaged.
FP2	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	What have you done with the aero balance?
FP2	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	The aero balance has been left as is, unchanged from previous run.
FP2	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	The clutch is doing it again. I don’t know, are you guys putting it in the wrong position or we have some issue with it?
FP2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	OK understood, we’ll have a look.
FP2	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	Now the front wing feels better but maybe it would OK to take a half out. Or shall we leave it, what do you think?
FP2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Let’s remove a half, Kimi. We’ll remove a half.
FP2	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	Yeah.
FP2	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Yellow turn 15.
FP2	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Marco Matassa	Yes it was me.
FP2	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ah yes, I saw you.
FP2	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	So pace update Dany, we’re looking for mid-to-low 1’33s.
FP2	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton was puzzled by his car’s handling on the first day, when he was slower than Rosberg. Yeah, something doesn’t make sense.
FP2	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	How is the lap time?
FP2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Last lap was half a second quicker than Vettel. Obviously he’s on the other tyre.
FP2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	OK Kimi update on pace: Very similar pace to Bottas at the minute, sometimes we’re slightly quicker, sometimes we’re slightly slower, but very similar.
FP2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	And fuel seven, Kimi, fuel seven, it’s quite severe fuel saving.
FP2	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	And Jenson Orange E10 is the map for lift-and-coast.
FP2	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Stop fuel-save.
FP2	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Deg is still low. Pace compared to Ferrari, we are closer on long run than short run.
FP2	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	I lost a lot of power.
FP2	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	OK Jenson we’re looking at it. OK we need to box please, cool the car.
FP2	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	That was actually quite interesting with other cars on the circuit. I know it’s the second-slowest car to us but the Force India was struggling to keep up through corners.
FP2	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	And give us feedback on the start.
FP2	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	It was good.
FP2	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	I have a very good rhythm and felt quite comfy. Stability was quite OK for once.
FP2	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	OK radio check
FP2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	OK loud and clear, Kimi, loud and clear.
FP2	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	I cannot hear you, it’s not loud enough, I cannot hear you at all.
FP2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	OK, understood, switch back to normal radio if you can hear me.
FP2	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	It’s pointless to have this radio when it’s like this, it doesn’t help at all, it’s just carrying a weight. Either we fix it or we take it out.
FP2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Understood.

Third practice

Sesson	From	To	Message
FP3	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Something is wrong with the engine. It was pushing me a lot in the braking.
FP3	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	These are new brakes so just warm the brakes up on the install, just make sure everything’s working OK. We’ve also got a new plank fitted, I’ll remind you again.
FP3	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Poor power delivery from the Renault engine blighted Red Bull all weekend. How is the engine under braking?
FP3	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Braking’s OK just throttle. Really bad drive-ability.
FP3	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK, understood.
FP3	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Box this lap. Drive-ability’s really bad.
FP3	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Not able to use ERS out of the last corner.
FP3	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	The balance isn’t there, we’ve got too much oversteer.
FP3	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Yeah I was a lot down in sector one because of the yellow. And drive-ability is quite on the edge.
FP3	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	It’s not clear what Vettel is referring to here – presumably he felt he was held up by Hamilton during one of the Friday sessions. Watch for Hamilton behind you.
FP3	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Do you think we should pay back for yesterday?
FP3	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	OK what do you feel now?
FP3	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	It’s just pushing and I can’t rotate the car.
FP3	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	I come in now, this is not good.
FP3	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Copy that.
FP3	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	With less than 20 minutes to go, Ericsson spun at the exit of turn 12 without hitting anything. Marcus, you OK?
FP3	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	Yeah, all OK.
FP3	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Car is fine, question?
FP3	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	We need to box, the tyres are done.
FP3	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Copy, box this lap.
FP3	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	I had a little bit more front grip but as the run went on, just started to hurt the rears, late entry.
FP3	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	A lot of problems with the engine like hesitations when I’m shifting from fourth to fifth gear.
FP3	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	How is the balance now?
FP3	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	It’s still very difficult. Sometimes oversteer, sometimes understeer. But I didn’t push like it should be in my fastest lap just because I wanted to make a clean lap.

Qualifying

Sesson	From	To	Message
Q1	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Locked the left-front in turn 15. Not sure why, lost me a lot of grip. Drive-ability’s worse than P3.
Q1	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	The vibration is pretty big on these tyres.
Q1	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddolls	What time do we need?
Q1	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	We need another half second if we can.
Q1	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	The McLarens were the slowest cars to set times and were eliminated in Q1 along with the Manors, which did not run, and Marcus Ericsson’s Sauber. Jenson we leapfrogged Kevin there but unfortunately we are half-a-tenth slower than Ericsson and out.
Q2	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	The tyres have cooled down in the garage so you’re going to have to really work at making temperature in those. They’re lower than desired.
Q2	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Problem with the engine it cuts into turn 15 on the entry in second gear.
Q2	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	Are we going out again?
Q2	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	I think we’re getting ready to run, Kimi.
Q2	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	Verstappen failed to make the cut for Q3, unlike his team mate. I had a big moment out of turn five.
Q2	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Marco Matassa	Are we going to Q3?
Q2	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Yes.
Q2	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Marco Matassa	Nice one.
Q3	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Are they improving Valtteri, the brakes?
Q3	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddolls	Not really, it’s a poor bite.
Q3	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	This tyre doesn’t feel right, very poor grip.
Q3	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Generally all the tyres have had some kind of vibration.
Q3	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Nice work Lewis, that P1. Well done there mate. Six-tenths to Nico P2.

Race

Sesson	From	To	Message
R	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	Magnussen stopped with an engine failure on his lap to the grid. For your information McLaren blew up an engine turn seven so there is yellow turn seven and there might be oil on track, so turn six seven yellow.
R	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Kvyat also failed to make it as far as the start of the race, though not for a lack of trying. Gearbox is gone I’m in the gravel. I’ll try to get back to the box.
R	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK Dany can we have mode one then please and try to limp home.
R	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Some went in the braking. Now the gearbox came back. I’m in the gravel so we might need to clean the car.
R	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Dany please go direct to the grid please, we’ll check over the car on the grid. Stay out, direct to the grid.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	OK the smell was from the Red Bull, not us. Straight to grid.
R	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Do not use fifth gear, Dany, stay in sixth or above if you can.
R	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I’m stuck, I’m stuck.
R	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Pull the clutch and upshift.
R	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I’m trying, nothing is happening. Agh… I am in turn 15, I have to stop.
R	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Stand by Dany. Release the clutch.
R	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Nothing, I am in neutral.
R	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK, stand by. Release the clutch, then re-pull it in, and try to upshift.
R	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Still nothing. Come on guys, let’s do something.
R	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	You can’t drive it Dany, no?
R	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	No I am stuck.
R	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Can you downshift Dany?
R	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I get some response from the engine but it doesn’t work. That’s it, engine is dead.
R	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	Bottas did not start the race due to injury but he withdrew early enough for the grid to be reorganised to take his absence into account. Just a question. Is a car here? So the Valtteri space stays empty or somebody… No, somebody’s there right? OK.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	The screen isn’t working. I try to adjust the G6 but I’m getting nothing on the dash, it says E14 also while I’m in E6.
R	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	OK Jenson that’s just the launch map overriding it. No problem, set them on the rotary.
R	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	Maldonado tangled with Felipe Nasr at the first corner and crashed out. Someone crashed me.
R	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	OK Pastor you got hit from behind. Need to go to P0.
R	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Just drive-ability, seemed like it got a decent launch then I had massive kicks. Otherwise it was looking alright.
R	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK mate, understood.
R	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean was forced to retire with an engine problem. There’s no power guys… Is the problem solved? Anything I can do?
R	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	We are trying to have a look, Romain. Try to use low gear and high revs… OK Romain, box this lap, we are retiring the car, sorry about that.
R	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	FOM’s race highlights video show Grosjean also responded “are you kidding me?”. Box.
R	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Nico, fuel situation improved, level -1.
R	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Starting to get caught by Ericsson behind, took 0.8 out of us that lap.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	I’m struggling with under-rotation on the braking. Under-rotation very poor.
R	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	Jenson Blue B7.
R	Craig Gardiner	Felipe Nasr	How are the tyres?
R	Felipe Nasr	Craig Gardiner	They look OK.
R	Craig Gardiner	Felipe Nasr	Gap to Ricciardo behind is nine-tenths, if we get another tenth we can get him out of DRS.
R	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	Perez made contact with Button. Jenson is the car OK?
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	Yeah we took a tap on the front-right but I think it’s OK.
R	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	Jenson there are only 13 cars in this race there could be points available for finishing.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	Yep, Roger.
R	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Just let me know when we get a pit window. Can’t do anything about the Sauber.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	Struggling with the rear but have been for the last eight laps. If we were to run this tyre again I would come down two turns I think.
R	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	I touched the wall on the entrance to turn 11, check everything.
R	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy, copy.
R	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	I don’t know if I lose part of the front wing just…
R	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	OK, understood, I’ll monitor.
R	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Massa dropped behidn Vettel when both made their single pit stops. OK Felipe we need to get past Ricciardo, we need everything we can, this is going to be very tight with Vettel.
R	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	Box, box.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	Too late for that, too late.
R	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	OK Jenson doesn’t matter, stay out, push now. Jenson, Perez has stayed out, that’s ideal for us.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	Yeah he’s on the [medium] tyre also.
R	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	Is looking good, is looking good. Rosberg and Hamilton pitted already. You are 16 seconds behind race leader.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	Starting to struggle with these tyres, guys.
R	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	Understood, Jenson, understood. OK Jenson it’s OK to push the tyre.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	I’ve been doing that since lap one! Box this lap, box this lap.
R	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	My engine sounds heavy.
R	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Stop the car, stop the car on track.
R	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So it’s important to save some fuel Nico to attack at the end of the race.
R	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel you are faster than Nasr, let’s have him.
R	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	Raikkonen retired after his second pit stop, where wheel nut which had beencross-threaded at his first pit stop did not reattach correctly. Something broke.
R	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	OK stop the car Kimi, stop the car and find a safe place to pull off.
R	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	Did you leave the wheel loose?
R	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Unfortunately wheel was not tight. I’m sorry, Kimi.
R	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Harsh drive-ability out of turn three.
R	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	OK copy.
R	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	OK Felipe doing a great job. We can still reel Vettel in. And there are nine laps to go, nine more laps.
R	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton was confused by a faulty fuel read-out. How’s my fuel? I’m four bars down. Am I OK to continue as I am or slow down a bit.
R	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Continue as you are, we’ll get a reference and let you know.
R	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Am I OK with fuel?
R	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Affirm, you are OK.
R	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	My dash is telling me that I’m about to run out.
R	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Yeah copy that Lewis just ignore the dash, no need to look at that, there is an error.
R	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	How’s other car’s fuel?
R	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So Nico fuel level plus, can’t give information.
R	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	OK Marcus three laps. Come on, push, get him.
R	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Last lap, bring it home buddy.
R	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Nice work Lewis. Beautifully managed. Excellent job, really solid race there. Great stuff.
R	Paddy Lowe	Lewis Hamilton	Well done Lewis, fantastic drive. That was the 30th Silver Arrows victory. Well done.
R	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Incredible job guys, both here this weekend but also everyone back at the factory. Thank you so much for building such an amazing car, thank you.
R	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Thanks Lewis, great way to kick off the season.
R	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	Yes, yes, P3, well done mate, great job.
R	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Ragazzi! Forza Ferrari! (Boys! Forward Ferrari)
R	Maurizio Arrivabene	Sebastian Vettel	Seb, good job, fantastic, well done, grazie.
R	Sebastian Vettel	Maurizio Arrivabene	Grazie a voi. (Thanks to you.)
R	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	That’s a great job Felipe, really nice drive. Sorry we lost out to Vettel at the stop that was… Nonetheless I hope the car was OK to drive and it was a really good result. Great job managing everything.
R	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Yeah sorry for that but was a much better start than last year. Thank you guys for the job and let’s keep pushing for the next races.
R	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	Absolutely it’s a really tight battle with Ferrari, we can definitely race them hard in the next races. So great job.
R	Felipe Nasr	Craig Gardiner	Well done guys, great job, great job. Amazing.
R	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Thanks anyways boys. Obviously did the best we could I think. Compared to the Sauber was more just a straight line thing. Even with DRS just struggled a lot.
R	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	Well done, mate. I know that’s not even close to where we want to be but equally we have made a lot of progress today.
R	Jenson Button	Mark Temple	Yeah obviously at this stage positions don’t matter really unless we’re fighting in the front. So this is a good step forward, guys. This is a very good step forward. Very, very happy with what we’ve achieved here today. Let’s keep pushing and see more and more improvements every time we get out there. Let’s turn this into something good. We can do it.
R	Mark Temple	Jenson Button	Yep, cheers Jenson, we’ll make it happen, we’re going to make it happen.

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29 comments on “2015 Australian Grand Prix team radio highlights”

Andy (@andycz)
20th March 2015, 12:06
It’s pointless to have this radio when it’s like this, it doesn’t help at all, it’s just carrying a weight. Either we fix it or we take it out.
Kimi is god :-D.
1. Brian Frank (@brianfrank302)
  20th March 2015, 16:27
  +1
dragoll (@dragoll)
20th March 2015, 12:27
Maldonado tangled with Felipe Nasr at the first corner and crashed out.
Someone crashed me.
Even Pastor was surprised that it wasn’t his fault :P
1. Atticus (@atticus-2)
  20th March 2015, 12:56
  @dragoll Actually he was more to blame this time around as well – not 100% his fault, part-racing accident, but there’s a bit more on his part.
  He was the one who had space to avoid the three-car tangle in T2 – Kimi was right by the left side of the road and Felipe (Nasr) had nowhere to go when Pastor squeezed him as tight against Kimi as he did. Even a full stop wouldn’t have helped the Brazilian avoid the minor collisions with the other two car, although mostly, I’d just assume he didn’t expect Maldonado to leave him as little room as he did in the end. Bottom line is, Pastor could’ve been more careful when he saw it was three-wide into the corner.
  In part, it’s a racing accident still as even more skilled drivers than Pastor may fail to correctly judge the speed differentials of two cars, let alone three (Kimi moved in slow motion, Nasr had a wiggly traction and Pastor had miles better acceleration than him in return). So it was a hard situation.
  So in the end it’s a part-racing accident, part-another Maldonado error.
  1. dragoll (@dragoll)
    20th March 2015, 13:08
    @atticus-2 So are you suggesting that Nico vs Hamilton in Spa 2014 was partly Ham’s fault because he put his car in a position where it could be hit? From my point of view, its the driver from behind that has more options than the driver in the front who can’t see whats in his blind spots.
    1. Patrickl (@patrickl)
      20th March 2015, 13:35
      The point is that Both Nasr and Kimi had no place to go and there was plenty space for him on the right. So no reason for Maldonado to squeeze Nasr into Raikkonen like that.
      Completely different from Spa where there was only space for one car through that corner and Rosberg knew up front that he was never going to make that move stick anyway.
      1. Alex
        20th March 2015, 14:32
        Or Nasr could have used his brakes, how about that?.
        Crazy, huh?
      2. Mads (@mads)
        20th March 2015, 17:53
        Alex
        Sorry, but that is quite frankly a ridiculous suggestion.
        Hitting the brakes in an acceleration zone with half the grid behind you is the perfect recipe for a massive accident.
      3. Mads (@mads)
        20th March 2015, 17:54
        sorry about the bold section. I messed that up quite badly.. oops.
      4. Strontium (@strontium)
        20th March 2015, 18:44
        Maldonado was well ahead, he a clear route out of the corner. It’s not his fault if others crash into him.
    2. Atticus (@atticus-2)
      20th March 2015, 16:26
      @dragoll Nope, because – as I said and you obviously conveniently disregarded – Nasr had next to zero chance of backing out of the situation, I doubt he would have been able to even if he applied full brakes, whereas Rosberg has space to back out of the situation.
      It’s practically what @patrickl said right above me here, I basically 100% agree with him.
2. Saiesh (@saiesh)
  20th March 2015, 13:36
  “Even Pastor was surprised that it wasn’t his fault :P”
  Brilliant. Just choked on my coffee white reading that….
  1. Palle (@palle)
    20th March 2015, 21:18
    Having seen it numerous times I’m convinced it was Maldonado’s lack of spatial awareness, which was the cause of the accident – he should have known that he had 2 cars on the inside there and left room for them – they were not moving into a too narrow space, Maldonado came on the outside and squeezed them – he will probably never be able to have a wheel to wheel fight with another driver through consecutive turns without contact.
Blunders (@blunders)
20th March 2015, 12:30
At the end of the race, looks like you’ve got Massa and Dave Robson the wrong way round.
Good stuff though, I love reading these. Particularly enjoyed Jenson’s “I’ve been doing that since lap one!”
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  20th March 2015, 14:35
  @blunders Also the dispute over who smelt it and who dealt it…
iAltair (@)
20th March 2015, 15:06
Vettel’s radio was very quiet.
1. Tim M (@tim-m)
  20th March 2015, 16:13
  Conversely, we’re hearing a lot more from Kimi. I’m not sure if he’s talking more, or we’re just hearing more, though. I wonder if Fernando’s radio will be more or less quiet than his time at Ferrari.
2. Edgar
  20th March 2015, 16:41
  Just like Alonso’s was the last couple of years.
  I suspect we aren’t going to hear from Vettel for a long time!
3. rm
  20th March 2015, 20:10
  I look forward this year to finally hearing what Alonso has to say during a race! Or am I being too optimistic?
hobo (@hobo)
20th March 2015, 15:40
@keithcollantine – Is there a reason that the lap number is not indicated in the race portion? That is always helpful for context.
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  20th March 2015, 15:56
  @hobo The problem is because the messages are delayed in the broadcast it’s not possible to be specific about when a message took place, only when it was broadcast. It was clear on occasions last year people didn’t realise this and were getting confused.
  1. hobo (@hobo)
    20th March 2015, 15:59
    @keithcollantine Got it. They did seem extra delayed this year as well. I thought perhaps last year that the lap data you used was available from someone (FIA, transcript) after the fact and that’s how they were added. But what you said makes sense.
  2. Steve Dennison (@routrax)
    20th March 2015, 20:37
    It would be nice to see the lap number, even if it was when it was broadcast. It adds a little bit of context, even if it’s not too accurate.
    I feel like it’s harder to read without.
    1. Atticus (@atticus-2)
      20th March 2015, 22:19
      I agree.
John H (@john-h)
20th March 2015, 19:56
“How’s the other car’s fuel?”
“Sorry can’t give information.”
Story of 2015 right there.
1. DR
  20th March 2015, 23:30
  Love these comments, do you seriously think it doesn’t go both ways, and Lewis would have poured over Nico’s data after all the practice sessions where it appeared Nico had a bit of an advantage?
  Please they are a team, just stop it with the silly “Nico steals Lewis’ data” garbage. Its childish finger pointing, and what’s worse, Its very selective to make it appear one sided. Whay can’t some Lewis fans be happy when he wins without having to be vindictive towards other drivers for no reason?
  1. DR
    20th March 2015, 23:30
    would have = wouldn’t have, sorry.
AmbroseRPM (@ambroserpm)
20th March 2015, 22:14
I thought that Jenson’s race engineer was Tom Stallard not Mark Temple?
1. Peppermint-Lemon (@)
  21st March 2015, 10:13
  Changed last year I think