It wasn’t the most thrilling race in Spain but the radio channels still provided plenty of entertainment. We round up the best of pit-to-car communication from the Spanish Grand Prix below.
« Oh, fudge! I think I’m stuck in the gravel mate. »
Romain Grosjean reports back from the run-off area during second practice.
« Oh, mate I’m sorry. I was … I tried the outside, Kevin lost it a bit and then I got the dirty air and that’s it. »
After getting it wrong in practice, Grosjean gets it wrong again in the race too.
« Guys, massive crash! Massive crash! I spun. I can’t believe … I cannot believe »
Pierre Gasly was among the drivers caught up in the Grosjean accident and, between heavy breaths on team radio, sounded absolutely gutted on the radio.
« They need to sweep up a little bit better. There’s still so much stuff down, guys. »
Lewis Hamilton complains of debris following Grosjean’s collision with Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly.
« We need the Safety Car to go faster or this is going to be chaos. Tell him to skip the chicane or something. »
Carlos Sainz comes up with a solution for speeding up the Safety Car.
« You definitely need to stop talking on every overtaking manoeuvre! »
Fernando Alonso issues his version of Kimi Raikkonen’s ‘leave me alone, I know what I’m doing’
« I have some issue. I’ve lost power »
Kimi Raikkonen’s race comes to an end with more reliability issues.
« You can still do more [tyre] saving in three and nine »
« No »
« Copy »
« The more I do saving the more I lose temperature »
Valtteri Bottas treads a fine line between falling tyre temperatures and excessive front tyre wear
« Woowee! That’s more like it guys! I’m super happy with that. Great job! »
Lewis Hamilton celebrates his second victory in two races.
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