2015 Canadian Grand Prix team radio transcript

2015 Canadian Grand Prix

10th June 2015, 12:1410th June 2015, 16:57 | Written by Keith Collantine

Not for the first time this year, in Canada Nico Rosberg found he was unable to get the information he wanted from the Mercedes pit wall at a critical moment.

However a message to his team mate earlier in the race seemed to indicate Mercedes were willing to give the same information to Lewis Hamilton that they later denied to Rosberg.

Shortly after discussing his own fuel saving strategy for the race Hamilton was advised that Rosberg was “safer on fuel” than he was. On previous occasions, such as in Australia, Rosberg had been told the team could not give him information about the other car’s fuel level.

And when Rosberg asked for that same information later in the race, in a message broadcast with five laps to go, he was again told the team “can’t comment” on how much Hamilton had left in his tank.

Last year the FIA imposed restrictions on what teams could tell their drivers on the radio, but they did not exclude information about fuel levels. However Mercedes has an internal policy of not telling their drivers how the their team mate is performing in terms of fuel-saving.

The message Hamilton received was ascribed to human error on the pit wall. Rosberg is aware Hamilton received information which would normally have been denied him, but wrote in his column for German newspaper Bild yesterday that he still “trusts the team 100 percent” to treat them equally.

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The number six Mercedes had other problems in the race, as the team radio transcript highlights. His brakes were in a “critical” state in the middle of the race, but he had them under control in time for the final ten laps of the race when he made his last push to get within range of Hamilton.

The race saw a number of incidents which provoked some interesting responses. Will Stevens was not at all impressed with Romain Grosjean’s driving. The Lotus driver blamed him for their collision, but by the end of the race his certainty that he was in the right was already begin to soften, and afterwards he accepted he’d been in the wrong.

Events of previous Canadian Grands Prix weighed on Kimi Raikkonen’s mind. Before the race he was anxious to avoid a repeat of the infringement which earned him a grid penalty two years ago in Montreal.

He then spun at the hairpin, triggering memories of his similar incident last year. Raikkonen apologised to his team after making his second pit stop of the race.

Here are all the team radio messages which were broadcast during the coverage of the Canadian Grand Prix.

2015 Canadian Grand Prix team radio transcript

Lap*	From	To	Message
PR	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	If there is a queue of cars I can go past, I don’t have to…
PR	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Right, correct.
PR	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	Yeah, so all the cars that have arrived I just have to start behind them. Not waiting on the left because there was this stupid rule that you have to go in the order that you stack up.
PR	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	If there’s people on the right not doing starts you have to go with them.
PR	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Clutch nine
PR	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	If you give it to me the clutch going in to turn ten, Brad, I can’t react immediately, obviously.
PR	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Copy that Nico, I wasn’t sure you’d heard as turn ten is actually a black spot on the radio.
PR	Romain Grosjean	Unknown	Where are the guys there is no one here?
PR	Unknown	Romain Grosjean	They are just making their way over I believe.
PR	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Cancel RS, feedback on the start.
PR	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Little bit under-engaged.
PR	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	The second start was not too bad, a little bit under-engaged, but this one now felt a bit weird.
PR	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Copy that Nico. So to the grid now. Cool the engine on the way.
PR	Jenson Button	Unknown	My drink is not working.
PR	Unknown	Jenson Button	OK roger that.
PR	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Kimi we lost telemetry on the start, did you have wheelspin?
PR	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	No it was OK, it was more or less fine.
PR	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Copy.
PR	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Coming to the back of the grid.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Don’t know if you boys can hear me. I just wanted to say a big thank-you for all the hard work this weekend putting the car back together. Didn’t get to see you all individually but really appreciate it.
PR	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Just a reminder, head wind is the main straight to the last chicane, just be mindful of that. Track temp’s just dropped a degree, we’ve got quite a lot of cloud cover.
PR	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	How many people are starting on the super-soft around me?
PR	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Jenson behind is with [soft], Vettel with [super-soft].
FL	Unknown	Lewis Hamilton	Start working the brakes and the tyres as much as you can. We really need to work those fronts.
FL	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddolls	Seems to be a bit more grip on the grid than the exit of pit lane.
2	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Box this lap, we’ll take our drive-through penalty.
2	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Box this lap.
3	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	We’re in a good position there, try to stay in DRS.
4	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I’ll do a little bit of fuel lifting now. It’s a good opportunity.
4	Felipe Nasr	Craig Gardiner	Seems like I have no power.
4	Craig Gardiner	Felipe Nasr	No more overtake button. Don’t use the overtake button.
5	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	This is good, just keep picking them off. We are the lead [soft] runner.
5	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Is everything OK with the engine?
5	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Yes Jenson, we believe all OK.
7	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	This pace is better, you can pull a gap to Ericsson. We are Strategy A.
7	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Some vibrations in turn ten on the front-left side.
7	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Copy, Dany.
8	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson we could be racing Vettel at pit exit.
10	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Massa overtook Ericsson. Nice job Felipe that was excellent. So next car is Perez.
10	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Just try to stay with him now.
12	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	We have a hot rear caliper. So be aware. That is why we have moved the brake balance forward, OK, at this stage. So just easy on the brakes. Everything you can to try and save it. Brake balance forward three clicks. Caution with that change, OK.
13	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	My front-left tyre looks pretty ugly. It’s getting worse and worse and graining.
13	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	How are the tyres?
13	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	They’re OK. Just lacking grip, obviously, the front locking. Rear’s going away a little bit but not too bad.
14	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Doing a great job Felipe, catching up Ricciardo a second per lap.
16	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Just give me some more feedback on tyres. How many laps left on this set?
16	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddolls	Losing a little bit of traction now. Maybe something between 15 and 20.
16	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Copy.
16	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	We need to start doing some fuel saving. Let’s target zero on the dash.
16	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	If I save fuel the battery is not going up.
18	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	This is fuel three, we need fuel six.
18	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	I mean, you would not believe how early I am lifting off.
18	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Struggling to stop the car into the chicanes.
18	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK rearward one click brake balance. Temperature is starting to come under control now, OK, so we’ll migrate the brake balance rearward as we can.
20	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Kvyat in front has brake problems. Let’s clear him as soon as we can.
21	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Check the front-right corner, I touched with Alonso.
21	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	I’m suffering a little bit on the left-front.
21	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Understood. OK Kimi let us know if the left-front becomes a big problem, we can stop at this moment.
24	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Are we still on the same target stop lap or later?
24	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Because we’re in a good position at the moment we’re looking at another plus three, something like that. You’re doing a very good job.
25	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	Nasr is seven-and-a-half seconds back. We must save fuel, we must target zero.
25	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	I don’t want, I don’t want.
25	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	The version of this exchange played on the main feed omitted this response from Temple. We’re going to have big problems after if we don’t.
25	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	Already I have big problems now. Driving with this, looking like amateur. So I race and then I concentrate on the fuel.
25	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	There may still be retirements later in the race, we need to make sure we can still fight for positions in the end.
26	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Charge eight. If warm-up’s bad, attack him while he’s still warming up.
26	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	He’s just in DRS, doesn’t let me past. Come on, come on to lap. Come on!
26	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	Don’t worry Romain we are talking to Charlie about it, he knows. OK Romain, Charlie is on it.
27	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Try to get into the DRS zone.
27	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	I’m trying.
27	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So Raikkonen has pitted, push hard now. Go strat five.
28	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	That, exactly same happened last year. Suddenly it just the K kicks in.
28	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Understood, understood, just get back in the rhythm.
30	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	And Fernando while the tyres are OK we’d like to keep going because a Safety Car would play to us if there was.
30	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	We’re safe where we are, we’ve come out in the correct position.
32	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Tyre information: At the pit stop tyre wear was good. We need exactly the same tyre management for this stint.
32	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Almost all cars are going to one-stop this race. We are on plan C and we are target plus for.
32	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	To be honest losing more than a second behind these guys at the minute.
32	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Understood Felipe. They have been given a warning. I know that doesn’t help us but let’s just make the most of this free air ahead and let’s push on.
34	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	The tyres have actually got better.
34	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Understood, Jenson. Still happy with front wing angle?
34	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Yes.
36	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Pace and deg look good.
36	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	I’m going to attack Kvyat.
36	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Tyres are still holding up.
36	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	OK still good, tyres still good.
36	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	But if you want to go for it you can now, I’m close.
36	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	Opposite of Massa.
37	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Nico, brake wear is now critical. So we’d like you to manage it for the next ten laps before you attack Lewis.
37	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	How are the tyres now?
37	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	Feeling a little bit more the rear now, the rear’s going.
37	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Understood.
39	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Vettel behind’s on a two-stop.
39	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Does he have to stop again or not?
39	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	No Vettel doesn’t have to stop again.
39	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Let’s go for a big push now in next two laps.
39	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	Fuel saving or not?
39	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Yes, still with the fuel. Keep the target on the fuel. But push more on the tyre.
39	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Lift-and-coast later in the race is not the strategy. I’ll lose temperature in the tyres. Need to be able to push later.
39	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Copy that Lewis. So we do the lift-and-coast now so we’ve got the fuel margin at the end of the race.
40	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK don’t worry. Massa on [super-soft] ahead. Obviously that’s a long way for him to go. Most important thing for us here, Dany, is to keep things clean, OK?
41	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	You’re lapping Nasr. Race update: Rosberg in front is critical with his brakes.
41	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Last four laps is fuel four. We still need fuel six.
41	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Nico is safer on fuel but a little more critical on brakes.
43	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Let’s not pit yet guys. Let’s stay until we feel we are losing time. We can have some fun on the other tyre, even if we’re at the back.
43	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK, understood JB.
44	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	OK Kimi just…
44	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	…sorry, yeah, sorry guys for the pit stop.
44	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Hulkenberg spun after going side-by-side with Vettel into the final chicane. Where is Hulkenberg? I did not touch him. Where is he?
44	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	He spun in the chicane.
45	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson if you want to have some fun on the [super-soft] tyre at the end we need to save fuel now. So fuel seven.
46	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	You’ve done a really good job with brakes, there. We want you to continue like that for the moment, it will give us margin to attack.
46	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	There is no chance. We’d have collided.
46	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	OK we’ll look into it, Nico.
46	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	I have no power.
46	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	OK, stand by.
46	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	Alonso could see the tell-tale signs of another power unit failure. Now it seems OK, but obviously we know the procedure.
47	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	Box, box. Nothing is working.
47	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	OK, understand. We’ll park it in the garage.
48	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson, Fernando has retired. No reason that should affect us.
49	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	How is this pace now to our competition?
49	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	The pace is good. We’re slightly pulling away from Kvyat and coming up to lap Button.
51	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Grosjean collided with Stevens while lapping him. He hit me! He hit me! This is not possible.
52	Will Stevens	Josh Peckett	Box, box, I’ve got a puncture, the front-right, Grosjean hit me.
52	Josh Peckett	Will Stevens	Understood mate. In now, in now.
52	Will Stevens	Josh Peckett	He’s so stupid, he comes across in front of me every single time he overtakes. Where does he want me to go, off the track?
52	Josh Peckett	Will Stevens	OK understood, mate. We’ll have a look into it.
52	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Fuel save down to 30 now.
52	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Copy. How about tyres, are you concerned, or can I push?
52	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Not concerned on tyres.
52	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	My front-left is starting to grain again a little bit.
53	Josh Peckett	Will Stevens	Grosjean has received a penalty.
54	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Doing really well with fuel and pace also very good. Let’s keep this up, this is excellent, still quicker than Vettel ahead.
55	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	So we are P11 at the moment. It’s still very long, Romain, more than 20 laps to go.
55	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Yeah but they blocked twice those guys they need to learn something.
55	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Everything’s looking good. At this pace Raikkonen will catch us just after the race. You’re bringing the fuel to target. Continue like this.
56	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	We need to keep saving the fuel. We are spending fuel with high rpm during lift-and-coast. Target low rpm during lift-and-cost.
57	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	Good job, keep pushing like this. We are P5. Kimi in front of you, racing Kimi, 12 seconds.
57	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Grosjean has a penalty, we need to stay within five seconds.
58	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	We need to box this lap and retire the car. Cool the brakes at the pit entry.
58	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	OK, on my way in.
58	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Everything looks good. Keep plugging away.
60	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	This sounds like a longer version of the previous message. Everything looks good. Keep plugging away. This gap at 1.8. Suggest we introduce just a little bit of lift-and-coast to buy us a bit of margin at the end of the race. Currently looking OK, though.
60	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton asks if he should begin lifting 100m earlier – he’s told he doesn’t need to back off that much. How much is a little? A hundred?
60	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Fifty metres is enough.
60	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Nico has been managing brakes but they’re now under control. So we’ll just need to monitor.
61	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	That’s good Felipe. Remember the battery is full. Remember we’re racing Maldonado for position. We’re over one second per laps quicker than him.
62	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	I’m losing all downforce.
62	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	OK we need to pass Kvyat, try to pass Kvyat.
62	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Just can’t lean on the tyres any more. Braking, really easy to lot either fronts or rears. So just lost the grip
62	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK mate understood.
64	Roberto Merhi	Nicholas Perrinn	Something is broken on the rear.
64	Nicholas Perrinn	Roberto Merhi	Roberto see if you can make it back. Can you make it back?
64	Roberto Merhi	Nicholas Perrinn	…is broken. I try to go to the back, OK?
64	Nicholas Perrinn	Roberto Merhi	Roberto do not shift.
64	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	OK Romain situation is you have a five-second time penalty. You need to pass Kvyat and gain five seconds on him. Do your best.
64	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Why do I have a penalty?
64	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	For causing a collision with the Marussia.
65	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	How’s the other car on fuel?
65	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Nico I can’t comment, can’t comment.
66	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	This is excellent. So three-tenths quicker than Vettel. Vettel is going to get some traffic.
67	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	The gap is increasing he is 1.4 out of DRS. Keep doing what you’re doing.
67	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Go strat mode 12 to the end of the race. We need more lift-and-coast, 50 metres.
69	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	We need 100 metres lift-and-coast
69	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	I thought I was safe on the fuel.
69	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	You were safe when you were doing 50 metres lift-and-coast. When we start pushing the consumption does ramp up. Suggest give us the fuel saving, Lewis. Gap is at 3.5 so it’s perfectly safe.
69	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	I’m lift-and-coasting, please leave me to it.
70	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Plenty of space. 3.5 seconds. We just need to save a little bit in terms of tank pressure.
VL	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	I’m running out of fuel.
VL	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Copy, stop the car. It’s not fuel, Marcus, we have a problem.
VL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Well done Lewis, great drive mate.
VL	Paddy Lowe	Lewis Hamilton	Well done Lewis, great drive.
VL	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Fantastic job, P3.
VL	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddolls	Yes! Well done, guys. Amazing work. Really good strategy and good team work all weekend. Really happy, thank you guys.
VL	Rob Smedley	Valtteri Bottas	Great job Valtteri. Excellent job, thank you very much, that was an absolutely flawless drive. Good lad. That’s what we needed, first podium of the season.
VL	Valtteri Bottas	Rob Smedley	Thanks I hope there’s many more to come.
VL	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	Sorry for the spin but there was not much that I could have done.
VL	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Understood, Kimi. We’ll have a proper look through it. I’m sure there’s some stuff from our side as well. Sorry for that, Kimi.
VL	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	Great, P5, great recovery, good drive.
VL	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	OK, grazie ragazzi, grande l’amoro [thanks boys, big love]. Sorry for the first pit stop, and after that good recovery. Start and the first lap I should have been a bit better. Difficult to get more but thank you, grazie. The car was fantastic in the race. Could have been quicker in the last stint. Grazie.
VL	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Fantastic job, that’s a really good drive. Obviously a real shame what happened yesterday but a great recovery, fantastic overtaking, especially on that Sauber near the beginning of the race, that really made a difference, great job.
VL	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	OK, yeah, well done boys. Was a good race.
VL	Rob Smedley	Felipe Massa	Great recovery Felipe, that was absolutely brilliant mate. Well done, thanks very much, got us another point. That was a stunning drive really making that [super-soft] last as long as you did. Thanks you very much.
VL	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	Well done Pastor, great drive, finally got a point. That’s great, well done mate.
VL	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	OK well done guys, good race. Bit tough with the tyres.
VL	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	Yeah I know you did a great job, difficult circumstances with the tyres. We were only beaten by quicker cars today, can’t ask any more than that, well done mate.
VL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Good job mate. Unlucky with the Vettel overtaking. Good job, solid race mate.
VL	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Are we P8 or…?
VL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	We’re P8. Obviously Vettel and Massa managed to get past us in that incident. Maldonado managed to do another ten laps, twelve laps on his tyres, that meant he got us I’m afraid.
VL	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	That’s a very solid job, P9.
VL	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Thanks you guys, thanks. Solid race. We knew it’s not going to be easy here I think, so thank you.
VL	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Yeah agreed.
VL	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	OK if it was my fault with the Marussia, I’m very sorry.
VL	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	So you will keep your P10 because you finished roughly ten seconds in front of…
VL	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	..but the rule says that the lapped cars should leave the line to the…
VL	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	Romain, I know. We will watch the video together.
VL	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Yes. If it’s my fault I’m very sorry but, well, that’s..
VL	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	OK Romain. Don’t worry, we will watch the video together.
VL	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	P11 unfortunately. Good job from your side. Just couldn’t quite get the point there.
VL	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Don’t really have much to comment. I was trying and just couldn’t get any more out of it. Bit of a strange weekend.
VL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Yeah, understood mate.
VL	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Good drive, save fuel. Good drive. Shame with the penalty we couldn’t get further up.
VL	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	Yeah I think it’s not bad.
VL	Craig Gardiner	Felipe Nasr	Finishing position 16, quite an uneventful race for us. Of course the time that we lost in the first stint on the brakes really lost our connection with the pack there. Also our overall pace I think we have to take a look at, I think we’re missing a little bit of something.

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70 comments on “2015 Canadian Grand Prix team radio transcript”

lockup (@)
10th June 2015, 12:25

Radiogate yay. This is a terrific little conspiracy.

I also loved how Toto was grinning at the camera in his face near the end of the race, that was hoping to catch him celebrating Lewis beating Nico :))
1. Alex machina (@smartrip)
  10th June 2015, 13:41
  
  I’m sure Nico expected that after the fiasco last race.
2. Woody (@woodyd91)
  10th June 2015, 14:28
  
  There is no conspiracy here.
  
  He was grinning at the camera because Niki was playing him up, even blowed a kiss at him at one point, not because Mercedes had some how engineered a situation where they enabled Lewis to win, conspiracy theorist love reading every face emotion of anybody who appears on camera, they are almost always wrong.
3. PT (@pt)
  11th June 2015, 4:26
  
  All races are influenced by strategy, fine. But are we getting strategy-engineered racing now?
  1. Kenneth
    11th June 2015, 16:59
    
    Probably a positive message i.e Nico is safe on fuel can be given, rather than he is not safe on fuel, as this can give an advantage to a chasing car to take advantage of.
    In addition an answer to Lewis Hamilton regarding the status of Nico’s brakes, is also ok as its does not give him (Lewis) information necessary to attack, since he is the lead car. I believe had Hamilton been the chasing car they would not have given him the information on Nicos breaks as this would aid his attack for a pass, armed with such information
CountryGent (@countrygent)
10th June 2015, 12:51

Gianpiero Lambiase really doesn’t suffer fools does he! One almost can infer that he views racing drivers as a corruptive force in the neat regularities of running a racing car. I wonder what the response would be if Bonno or Mark Temple ended their messages with “I’m not going to tell you again, OK!” It’s almost a shame that Alonso didn’t take Vettel’s place at RBR, and thus had Lambiase as his engineer!

It is interesting that fellow Frenchmen Julien Simon-Chautemps has replaced Ayao Komatsu as the voice in Grosjean’s ear. I wonder if the toils of 2014 started to weigh too heavily on that relationship.
wesleysneijder
10th June 2015, 13:18

even “the drink ” doesnt work in honda :/ :D
frood19 (@frood19)
10th June 2015, 13:29

what a lot of fuel saving! my poorly though through solution would be to use some sort of heavy fuel and start with whatever amount you like. for example, you start with loads of fuel (enough to push throughout without lift-and-coast/shortshifting) but the car is much heavier. conversely, you start with a minimal amount and a light car.

it seems too gimmicky for words, but maybe that’s not the problem. i think the likelihood under any new proposed regulation is that the engineers get a handle on it too quickly and all parties eventually converge on the same solution (this happens more and more frequently with tyre strategies – everyone does broadly the same thing), as they do with aero designs.

we’re losing the randomness associated with engineers struggling to find perfect solutions (and each trying different ideas out) – even in the late 90’s people weren’t getting on top of new regulations so quickly that we missed the fun of divergent solutions. now, the regs are so restrictive everyone runs more or less the same car design and the format (qualy/tyres/engine/fuel) demands the same.
1. frood19 (@frood19)
  10th June 2015, 13:32
  
  and to extend that point: the circuits are too similar so you don’t get the variation within teams. in 1994 the ferraris had a significant advantage at monza and hockenheim because of their straightline speed suiting the track characteristics. we’ve now lost a lot of that variation.
  1. Joao (@johnmilk)
    10th June 2015, 13:55
    
    @frood19 that is (unfortunately) exactly what Ecclestone wants…
vtf
10th June 2015, 13:34

41-Peter Bonnington-Lewis Hamilton:Nico is safer on fuel but a little more critical on brakes.
60-Peter Bonnington-Lewis Hamilton:Nico has been managing brakes but they’re now under control. So we’ll just need to monitor.
Tyler (@tdog)
10th June 2015, 13:53

One thing which got my attention during the race was the message to Hamilton as to the necessary distance to lift and coast ie. 50 metres (lap 60). To me that seems to be specific driving advice, which I thought was prohibited under the current interpretation of the rules? I am not having a go at Hamilton or his engineer specifically, I’d ask the same question irrespective of who the message passed between.
1. bola
  10th June 2015, 13:56
  
  Maybe they should just say lift and cost, without giving a specific number. Or they should only repeat save fuel until he is saving enough fuel. But it is a complicated matter I think, with different strategies and such. On the other hand, if the guy is doing a 1 stopper he can pace himself….
2. Joao (@johnmilk)
  10th June 2015, 13:57
  
  they also told Ham at one point that Nico was safer on fuel but critical on brakes. When Ros asked about the other’s car fuel consumption they told him “can’t comment”
  
  There was a few details that I though were a bit strange
3. lockup (@)
  10th June 2015, 14:10
  
  Yeah @tdog it’s a bit of a nonsense. I think they should go back to unlimited radio personally, I thought we got interesting insights from it and I didn’t think it actually made anyone quicker. They can tell all in the garage after all.
  
  So far nobody’s been penalised for radio use anyway, so as night follows day the engineers will keep exploring the boundaries. Then most likely it’ll be a ‘junior’ driver they pick on.
  
  But I don’t understand how they don’t have a fuel gauge in the car, with a range readout! Or brake temperatures, tyre temperatures…
  1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
    10th June 2015, 16:02
    
    @lockup
    
    I don’t understand how they don’t have a fuel gauge in the car
    
    Here you go:
    
    Why do F1 cars keep running out of fuel?
    1. vtf
      10th June 2015, 16:49
      
      That explains why there is not a “conventional” fuel gauge, but engineers still have info on fuel, drivers can have that too?
    2. lockup (@)
      10th June 2015, 17:08
      
      Thanks @keithcollantine, interesting article, though as vtf says they have the fuel metering and the initial load so the data is around if they wanted to display it. There must be a reason they don’t but it seems obscure. The onboard camera?
4. rm
  10th June 2015, 14:57
  
  Mercedes in particular have been flouting the no coaching rules on an ongoing basis. But its not like the F1 press is going to make a big stink about it since Hamilton is involved.
  1. Edgar
    10th June 2015, 18:01
    
    Vettel fan detected.
    Remember Vettel asking for a multi-12 and the team telling Webber to do a multi-12 and he didn’t even knew what it was?
    
    Something way more serious. And nobody cared. Why should someone care about this, now?
    1. mccoughlin
      10th June 2015, 19:01
      
      British press and Hamilton relationship is there for all to see, you don’t need to be a Vettel fan to see that. One doesn’t automatically follow the other.
      1. periwinkle (@shena)
        10th June 2015, 20:53
        
        Imagine Rosberg got what he wanted to know and Hamilton was denied. We wouldn’t have heard the end of it.
      2. mccoughlin
        11th June 2015, 0:19
        
        That would be the “radiogate” alright!
  2. blazz14
    11th June 2015, 19:18
    
    Your comments always seem to follow a certain pattern- extreme and over ululation for Vettel and on the other scale, fine picking any fact/stat that presents Hamilton in a bad light. Just what is your issue exactly with Hamilton if I may ask?
Alessandro
10th June 2015, 14:30

“grande l’amoro [thanks boys, big love]”

Ahah: that’s not “amore” but “lavoro” the italian word for “work”.
Also “grande” doesn’t mean like “big” but is more like “excellent”.
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  10th June 2015, 14:34
  
  If it was ‘lavoro’ he needs to work on his pronunciation because it doesn’t sound anything like it. I listened to it several times and if it had sounded anything like ‘lavoro’, I’d’ve put that. I’m pretty sure this is something that’s come up before.
  
  But he’s basically just saying thanks so it’s not as if this is anything of great consequence.
  1. Chris (@chriscrouch)
    10th June 2015, 14:56
    
    But ‘l’amoro’ and ‘lavoro’ *do* sound pretty much the same, apart from one letter :/
    1. Nase (@)
      10th June 2015, 16:33
      
      @keithcollantine
      Not trying to defend Vettel’s Italian, or split hairs, but since there is no such word as “amoro” in Italian (“love” is “amore”), we can be pretty confident that he was complimenting the team on their job, instead of making obscure references to Pixies songs. ;-)
      1. Nase (@)
        10th June 2015, 16:35
        
        On an unrelated note: I think I should buy some glasses. Sorry Alessandro for repeating pretty much everything you already said.
      2. bola
        10th June 2015, 16:46
        
        @nase
        You are talking about the guy who went “Crazy Frog” on radio….
Chris (@chriscrouch)
10th June 2015, 14:30

It’s more likely that Vettel’s message was ‘grande lavoro’/’great work’ and not ‘grande l’amoro’. ‘Amoro’ is not an actual word :/
Frasier (@frasier)
10th June 2015, 15:31

The Mercedes psychology was clear. I was watching the numbers throughout, they were never more then 0.3kg usage apart throughout the race.

Mercedes wanted them to hold position, a safe 1-2 at as slow a speed as they could keep them down to. Tell the guy in front he shouldn’t need to go faster and either tell the guy behind he has no chance, or let him sweat with no info.

They played exactly the same tactic in Spain, it was just the other way around and some different words to Lewis, no conspiracy.
1. dour
  10th June 2015, 16:43
  
  Lewis was not gonna catch up in Spain, neither in Malaysia. Why is it so hard for people to believe Lewis cannot do “hammer time” every time he needs to catch up with someone putting lap after lap in clean air… Sometimes there are limits to tyres or fuel etc.
  1. Frasier (@frasier)
    10th June 2015, 17:23
    
    You may not think it, but that’s my point exactly, better to have the man in second place accept it and not take life from the equipment by ramping up the ‘modes’, whether or not a pass or catch is possible. A 1-2 is what the team are looking for.
    1. dour
      10th June 2015, 19:03
      
      Respect your opinion. But like I said, I don’t believe he would have caught up.
OmarR-Pepper - Vettel 40 victories!!! (@)
10th June 2015, 16:47

Great for Seb to admit he could have done better. Humble guy! How can’t people like this pal? And as when he was at Red Bull, he always thanks the team a lot for every result.
1. saran
  10th June 2015, 16:53
  
  I really like Vettel. He’s such a “normal” but smart guy. He always makes you laugh, very funny in press conferences and such.
  1. Alex machina (@smartrip)
    10th June 2015, 17:17
    
    I was surprised at his sense of humor – he’s very witty for a sports figure.
    I read (or maybe watched) an interview somewhere that said the people who work with him say he actually holds a lot of his humor back when in public. Would love to see what it’s like in private.
    1. eric
      10th June 2015, 19:07
      
      Yeah, he sounds like a particularly intelligent guy actually.
2. uan (@uan)
  11th June 2015, 16:40
  
  @omarr-pepper
  
  totally agree. Lots of driver talk about how they can improve, but how many get so specific and with their teams, especially at the rather abstract level that he’s talking about.
  
  In the paddock, he mentioned to Sky that he needs to go look at the footage to see what he could have done better.
  
  Even last year, he often talked that it was up to him to figure out how to drive the car (once he accepted that the car could be made to suit him). Even on the podium in Malaysia he owned his poor showing last year.
  
  What’s funny, is that Ricciardo actually is suffering in comparison to Vettel this year, not on the track, but how he’s dealing with disappointment of a car not up to his standards (just imagine the step down for Vettel from 2013 to 2014!).
  1. wert
    11th June 2015, 20:38
    
    Yeah I’m disappointed with Ricciardo. Now he sort of reminds me of di Resta and Webber.
Manule
10th June 2015, 17:34

60 How much is a little? A hundred?
60 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Fifty metres is enough.

This is a specific instruction on how to approach braking before a corner. If this is not coaching, then nothing is. Stewards, Charlie, anyone? Are you gonna enforce the rules, or is it the wrong team?

41 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Nico is safer on fuel but a little more critical on brakes.
60 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton Nico has been managing brakes but they’re now under control. So we’ll just need to monitor.
65 Nico Rosberg Tony Ross How’s the other car on fuel?
65 Tony Ross Nico Rosberg Nico I can’t comment, can’t comment.

And this appears to be a clear case of No 1 vs No 2 driver. But no, according to the Merc, it’s just a human error, due to personal reasons. Well, it looks like at least two human errors separated by 19 laps, during which time nobody at Merc’s pitwall was apparently concerned about what Bonnington was doing.

Ok, let’s say it was a human error. Wasn’t Monaco one as well. Where’s The Times and Daily Mail? Why so quiet?
1. Ed Marques (@edmarques)
  10th June 2015, 18:25
  
  Some are saying that the repetition of “can’t comment” could be a code message.
  Conspiracy everywhere huh?
  1. Alex machina (@smartrip)
    10th June 2015, 18:35
    
    It was determined pre-race that “can’t comment” would be code for “Shut up, Nico. Lewis is better than you – know your role!”
2. bola
  10th June 2015, 19:10
  
  One would think, after they realized Bonnington had given Lewis confidential info, they would have given the same info to Nico in order to equalize the situation.
  1. Sharon H (@sharoncom)
    10th June 2015, 20:29
    
    I don’t think the stewards would buy that one.
    1. bola
      11th June 2015, 0:23
      
      But giving info on your competitor’s fuel situation is not explicitly forbidden? It is coaching that’s not allowed anyway. This restricted info between teammates has more to do with Mercedes policy than the radio ban.
3. Mayank (@mjf1fan)
  10th June 2015, 19:26
  
  Ok, let’s say it was a human error. Wasn’t Monaco one as well. Where’s The Times and Daily Mail? Why so quiet?
  
  The answer is pretty straight forward. A “Victimized Rosberg” doesnt generate that much news in comparison to a “Victimized Hamilton” no matter whether Hamilton is being victimized or not. Also, one must not forget Hamilton is the best World Champion, better that Rosberg or Vettel could ever be.
  
  So much show off for equal treatment. Sigh
  1. D (@f190)
    10th June 2015, 19:44
    
    You’re missing one key point though. They said this to Hamilton as a mistake, so when Nico asks they don’t know for sure Hamilton won’t be investigated. So why risk Rosbergs race as well ? People are pointing towards this being unequal treatment, but it would be crazy to give Rosberg the info if they’re already worried they’ve overstepped the rules with Hamilton.
    1. vtf
      10th June 2015, 20:27
      
      But there is nothing in the rule that says people cannot ask for information on fuel consumption of the competition. If he was asking for Vettel’s fuel situation do you think team would be breaching the rules by giving info to Rosberg on that?
    2. Mayank (@mjf1fan)
      10th June 2015, 21:19
      
      @f190 It would have been” mistake” if they gave information only on lap 41. But Bonno gave another information on lap 60. They had 19 laps in between to think about the mistake. Paddy Lowe should have asked Bonnington not to repeat the mistake again. But they didn’t think about it. It got to their mind when Rosberg asked for the information and suddenly they realized – Oh, we are breaching the radio ban rules, we shouldn’t do it.
      
      I know Bonnington had a very tough weekend, he lost his father. But Mercedes bosses could have given him leave for a race knowing how emotional he would be feeling and add to that tremendous pressure of being a driver’s engineer on a grand prix weekend.
      
      Like @shena pointed out above, if lewis would have been denied the information we would have not heard the end of it.
Bolide (@mim5)
10th June 2015, 19:59

The Mercs save brakes and fuel for almost a full stint so they can ‘race’ for the last 10 laps/70?
Jason
10th June 2015, 21:55

Lewis given fuel info by the team, Rosberg given race wins by the team. The team still OWE Hamilton a lot more.
1. vtf
  11th June 2015, 0:24
  
  Grow up, will you?
SauberS1 (@saubers1)
10th June 2015, 22:21

Does anyone know what happened in the 44. lap? I don’t understand Kimi’s radio transcript.
1. periwinkle (@shena)
  10th June 2015, 23:32
  
  From the video, he overshot the marks by about 10-20cm. The front jackman and a couple of mechanics at the front end had to dodge the car a bit.
Michael Brown
11th June 2015, 1:10

“Well done Lewis, great drive mate.”

The same line from Bonnington and apparently (from what we get) no response from Hamilton. Can’t even be happy for the winner when they don’t celebrate over the radio.

I never thought I’d say it but Hamilton is boring
1. Jon (@johns23)
  11th June 2015, 7:31
  
  Its getting to easy for him pretty much explains it
2. bosyber (@bosyber)
  11th June 2015, 8:19
  
  Or perhaps he just gave an acknowledgement, and FOM didn’t play it because there were other, more interesting things to play, we can’t really know; I’d assume he answered though.
MattDS (@mattds)
11th June 2015, 7:12

Why did Mercedes give Lewis Hamilton information which was withheld from Nico Rosberg? The race radio transcript explains all.

I don’t see how the radio transcript explains why Hamilton was given information that Nico didn’t get…
1. OOliver
  11th June 2015, 9:40
  
  One thing to note is the driver can receive general information if it is broadcast, but a driver cannot ask for specific information. Rosberg keeps asking for specific information, but information that a driver or team specifically reveals over the airwaves can be conveyed as information to the other drivers.
  But in all the radio ban is stupid and can not be precisely regulated, because it shouldn’t be applicable to team mates
2. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  11th June 2015, 17:04
  
  @mattds Are you taking that literally to mean just the transcript rather than the transcript article, or have you not read the opening six paragraphs?
  1. MattDS (@mattds)
    12th June 2015, 12:19
    
    @keithcollantine yeah I took it as if the radio messages themselves would explain this. I read the opening paragraphs but the only thing that touched upon it was “The message Hamilton received was ascribed to human error on the pit wall.”, but without a source. Maybe it’s in Rosbergs column but I can’t access that article.
Charles King (@charleski)
11th June 2015, 8:15

We saw so much lift-and-coast last weekend because the cars were pushing right to the 100kg limit (a graphic near then end showed both having used over 97kg with more than a lap to go). But we’re seeing l-‘n’-c on other less demanding circuits as well. Obviously there’s a break-even point where the benefit of starting with a lower fuel load is outweighed by the loss of top speed on the straights. It would be interesting to know the maths involved in calculating the optimal load (probably fairly complex, which is why it would be interesting!)
Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
11th June 2015, 9:32

Why did Vettel apologise for the first stop? I remember it was maybe 3 seconds too slow, but was it his mistake?
1. MattDS (@mattds)
  11th June 2015, 10:21
  
  @mike-dee sorry doesn’t always imply an apology, sometimes it’s an expression of regret (of the pit stop going wrong, in this case).
  
  That could be the case here.
  1. bola
    11th June 2015, 11:13
    
    Did Ferrari mention what was the problem with his pit stop?
kaiser (@kaiser)
11th June 2015, 14:38

for a moment there, Romain thought he might race alone and win the race by default there…
Adam
17th June 2015, 12:09

Wish they added the transcript for the Practice and Qualifying too… I couldn’t make out what Ricciardo said in Practice 3 and I can’t find anyone who can tell me. Sad panda.
1. Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
  17th June 2015, 20:58
  
  I used to transcribe the messages for qualifying but there wasn’t enough interest in the articles to justify carrying on with them. If you describe the message you’re interested in I’ll see if I can get what it was.