Monaco GP: Best of team radio
Selection of team radio transcripts from the Monaco Grand Prix, the sixth round of 2019 Formula 1 season.
Raikkonen was impeded in practice by a Force...Racing Point car
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Grosjean was baulked by Gasly in Q2
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Grosjean: “***** ****** ******. Mate, what? Honestly people don’t give a *****! Have I got time for one more [lap]?”
Team: “We cannot, we cannot.”
Grosjean: “No, serious?”
Hamilton takes pole
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Hamilton: “That’s what I’m talking about! Wooo! Yes!”
Magnussen took the best of the rest spot in qualifying
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Magnussen: “Come on, come on, come on. Yesss baby! Wooohooo! Great job guys! I **** hit the wall, ***** damaged the front wing. You guys just sort it out. Legends! ******. Legends!”
Team: “You held it together. Brilliant, brilliant! Perfect qualifying by you, great job.”
Bottas and Verstappen had a run-in in the pitlane
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Bottas: “I don’t know, but he pushed me to the wall.”
Vettel: “It got a bit hairy between those two in the pitlane. The...it was a very aggressive release from Red Bull. Fair...but then I think Max should have given him a bit more room ‘cause Bottas had nowhere to go.”
Kubica is instructed to push towards the end of his stint
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Kubica: “Paul, I already know what to do.”
Raikkonen has another moment with Stroll in the race
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Team: “We saw it, Kimi. We saw it. We have the onboard”.
Hamilton’s repeated complains about tyres
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Team: “So Lewis, just thinking about it, if we manage the same pace as the cars in front and you can still hold Verstappen behind.”
Hamilton: “I can’t keep the car behind, Bono. Can you not see that?”
*later*
Hamilton: “I don’t know what you were thinking when you kept these tyres on man. You need to hope for a miracle.”
Verstappen is given a power boost
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Team to Hamilton: “Verstappen has been given more power, you have overtake available.”
Hamilton: “Oh, that’s great news.”
Hamilton and Verstappen make contact at the chicane
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Verstappen: “Yeah, just turns in...I’m trying to overtake.”
Hamilton holds off Verstappen to win
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Wolff: “Lewis, that was a victory worth Niki. Well done! Unbelievable job! Congratulations!” Hamilton: “He definitely made that one hard for me. And that one's definitely for Niki.”
Team: “Yeah sorry about that, Lewis, but mate, that was a worthy drive.”
Sainz and McLaren celebrate sixth place finish
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Sainz: “Yeah, Great job guys! I did a great job at the start. You did it on the strategy. So thank you. What a team! What a team!”
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