Kimi Raikkonen, 2016 team radio transcripts. The transcripts for some of Kimi Raikkonen's radio messages during the 2016 Formula One season.

Although the FIA’s initially decided to tighter communication guidelines, team radio messages still brought about many interesting and entertaining moments during the last Formula 1 championship. As always, our very own Kimi Raikkonen proved to be straightforward and direct in many of the conversations with his race engineer. We have compiled a list with some of the best messages of the 2016 season regarding the Finnish driver:

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix:
From Kimi Raikkonen – “He got two times the blue flag and then it goes away and he doesn’t slow down, so..”

Brazilian Grand Prix:

To Kimi: “So we are on the crossover and lots of people are stopping for inters now Kimi, we need to think about coming in for inters.”
From Kimi: “OK but I almost spun again. I don’t know how you’re going to stay on the circuit that’s the problem. I have no rear end I’m aquaplaning all the time.”
Kimi: “Understood. We’ll get a warm set, maybe that helps, Kimi?”
From Kimi: “OK but I don’t think we’re going to stay on the circuit very easily if we change now.”

Mexican Grand Prix
From Kimi: “My left-rear is so [censored by FOM] poor it’s unbelievable.”

United States Grand Prix
From Kimi: “Why there was sparks at the rear?”
To Kimi: “K2 is available.”
From Kimi: “No, why was there..”
To Kimi: “There was a gun still attached as you left.”
From Kimi: “OK.”
To Kimi: “Stop, stop Kimi. Stop stop stop.”
To Kimi: “Sorry Kimi we think the rear’s not attached.”
From Kimi: “So what do I do? Switch off or go?”
To Kimi: “Can you come back to the pit lane? Roll back into the pit lane?”
From Kimi: “What you want that I reverse? I can just slide it down. It’s disallowed?”
To Kimi: “Don’t reverse.”
From Kimi: “If I let go the brakes it’s going to slide down.”
To Kimi: “Just let go of the brakes, Kimi.”
From Kimi: “So you want that I switch off?”
To Kimi: “You can reverse back. OK we need to switch off. Switch off, Kimi, we’re too hot, I’m sorry. So switch off Kimi, we’re too hot.”

Japanese Grand Prix
From Kimi: “Come on, move out of the way. They are seriously slowing me down, the lapped cars.”
To Kimi: “Understood Kimi unfortunately there are four or five of them I’m afraid.”
From Kimi: “Yeah when the first one doesn’t pull out of the way it doesn’t help.”
To Kimi: “Understood.”
From Kimi: “Come on I’ve been more than half a lap behind them.”
To Kimi: “We’re on it.”
To Kimi: “OK we’ve spoken to Charlie, he’s on the case.”
From Kimi: “Yeah I mean one lap it took [censored by FOM] one lap to let me past.”
From Kimi: “Come on ask him to move over. Everybody takes one lap, it’s ridiculous.”
From Kimi: “Come on give him a penalty then. It’s a joke now.”
To Kimi: “Charlie is on it. Charlie is on the case.”
From Kimi: “Come on it’s two laps now. If this is not a penalise [unclear].”
To Fernando Alonso: “We need to let Raikkonen past. Behind him close behind is Sainz and Jenson on 11-lap-old options.”
From Kimi: “Finally they let us past, it only took two laps.”
To Kimi: “Let’s get back in the rhythm. Hopefully Ericsson’s a bit easier. Remember Ricciardo’s got to go through all this as well.”

Malaysian Grand Prix
To Kimi: “So we need two seconds to Rosberg, you’re currently 2.4.”
From Kimi: “Yeah I’m going full speed so if he gets close I cannot do..”
To Kimi: “Understood, keep going as you are.”
From Kimi: “Yeah we have a issue with the SOC [state of charge] it doesn’t charge. It’s all the time low SOC.”
To Kimi: “OK the SOC is coming back up, Kimi.”

Singapore Grand Prix
To Kimi (Raikkonen passed Hamilton): “Awesome job, and all while we were having a chat as well!”

To Kimi: “OK Hamilton’s in, push push push.”
To Kimi: “So we are boxing this lap?”
From Kimi: “I’ll let you know, I’ll let you know.”
To Kimi: “We know how close it’s going to be, we need everything perfect.”
To Kimi: “OK we’re racing, we’re racing. Come on, Kimi.”
From Kimi: “What you want me to do on a pit lane? To go faster?”
To Kimi: “No, no. I know.”

Italian Grand Prix
To Kimi: “And we still need you to cool the engine, I’ll let you know when we’re OK.”
From Kimi: “Yeah but I can’t slow down, I’ll lose the tow.”
To Kimi: “Understood Kimi, we just want you to do half a car that’s all, half a car width different.”

Belgian Grand Prix
From Kimi: “Do I have to let the Red Bull past? Because it’s clear his only interest is pushing me off the circuit completely. If I wouldn’t go straight he’s just hitting me.”
From Kimi: “Hey come on this is [censored by FOM] ridiculous now, he’s just fucking turning when I’m going full speed on the right.
To Kimi: “Copy, copy, ridiculous.”

German Grand Prix
From Kimi: “Did you change the front wing because it feels like you didn’t drop it.”
To Kimi: “Confirm, we did the front wing adjust for these tyres.”
From Kimi: “OK.”

Hungarian Grand Prix
From Kimi: “He moved right and then back to left when I was going there. I took my [censored by FOM] front wing off.”
To Kimi: “Copy, copy, keep pushing on the way in.”

From Kimi: “He’s not stopping moving then we will hit each other.”
To Kimi: “Understood.”
From Kimi: “Because I move first so [censored by FOM] don’t move after that. I have nothing that I could do once I decided that I go inside and he turns after that in front of me.”

Austrian Grand Prix
From Kimi: “Come on, blue flags.”
To Kimi Raikkonen: “Copy copy he’s getting them.”
From Kimi Raikkonen: “He is not getting the blue flags.”

European Grand Prix
To Kimi: “Thank you Kimi, thank you.”
From Kimi: “Yeah but now you need to tell him to push because I don’t want these in front of me.”
To Kimi: “He’s been told.”

From Kimi: “If the handle is normal, it is the same like last race, let’s say?.”
To Kimi: “I can’t answer Kimi, I can’t answer, I’m sorry.”
From Kimi: “For sure you can say yes or no.”
To Kimi: “I can’t Kimi, I can’t.”

Canadian Grand Prix
To Kimi: “Take it easy Kimi, take it easy.”
From Kimi: “I cannot take it easy and keep them behind at the same time.”

Spanish Grand Prix
From Kimi: “Sorry guys I tried but once I got close it was so difficult to follow the car through the last corner.”
To Kimi: “Understood mate, we saw you were going for it.”
From Kimi: “Thanks for the good tactics I managed to recover after a pretty awful start again. Thank you.”

Chinese Grand Prix
To Kimi: “You are going to be racing quite a few cars in the next stint, but I know you can do it.”

Bahrain Grand Prix
To Kimi: “Okay great job Kimi, great job, good recovery from a difficult first lap. Good job.”
To Kimi: “Well done Kimi, great great job, well done.”
From Kimi: “Yea thanks, I got a pretty poor start, I think my finger slipped a little bit. It was really odd what happened. But good race and good tyre choices so thanks.”
To Kimi: “Copy Kimi, great job.”