Kimi Raikkonen – 2017 British GP team radio transcript
Qualifying session (Kimi pointed out one of his rival’s brakes had caught fire during qualifying)
From Raikkonen: “His car is on fire. The right-rear brake is completely on fire.”
To Kimi Raikkonen: “On Ocon?”
From Kimi Raikkonen: “Yeah”
To Kimi Raikkonen: “Ok, copy that”.
To Kimi Raikkonen: “How’s conditions?”
From Kimi Raikkonen: “Rainy.”
To Kimi Raikkonen: “So we’re expecting around three more minutes of rain Kimi.”
Race
FL – To Kimi Raikkonen: “OK we currently have a yellow, Palmer stopped on track. I’ll let you know what’s happening.”
FL – To Kimi Raikkonen: “OK extra formation lap Kimi.”
FL – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Still yellow at turn 15. Clear now. Track clear.”
Lap 4 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Just think about Hamilton and what he does normally with restarts.”
Lap 6 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “I had the hesitations again exit of four.”
Lap 16 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Good laps Kimi, keep it up, keep squeezing him.”
Lap 17 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “OK it’s raining in turn seven.”
Lap 17 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Understood Kimi we’ll keep an eye on it.”
Lap 28 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “There is something jumping in my leg. Something is loose, I don’t know what.”
Lap 33 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “So Bottas is in, he will fall behind Sebastian as well.”
Lap 47 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “OK so Bottas 6.5 behind. His last lap was 31.0. Obviously you had a blue.”
Lap 47 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “OK but put on the pit board the right numbers [censored by FOM] one-and-a-half seconds you show me all the time.”
Lap 47 To Kimi Raikkonen: “Understood.”
Lap 49 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “[Censored by FOM] me my left-front tyre, it broke.”
VL – To Kimi Raikkonen: “OK Kimi not sure what to say mate. P3.”
VL – From Kimi Raikkonen: “So we never seem to have any single luck. [Censored by FOM] joke.”
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