Kimi Raikkonen – 2017 Hungarian GP team radio transcript

Kimi Raikkonen – 2017 Hungarian GP team radio transcript

Second practice session (a settings change went wrong for Kimi, bringing his Ferrari to a temporary halt):

To Kimi Raikkonen: “So we need fail B zero five on, Kimi. And we need to slow down while we do that fail. So don’t be at 100% throttle when you do that fail. Just watch Grosjean.”
From Kimi Raikkonen: “No, I have no power. Absolutely no throttle when I do that.”
To Kimi Raikkonen: “OK. Bring the car back.”
From Kimi Raikkonen: “No I cannot. Listen, I don’t have the throttle. I cannot do anything. Can I do something to fix it?”
To Kimi Raikkonen: “It should be back now, try now.”
From Kimi Raikkonen: “No, nothing.”
To Kimi Raikkonen: “Just the check gear, Kimi, check you’re in first.”
From Kimi Raikkonen: “It’s fine but I have no throttle response.”
To Kimi Raikkonen: “OK, can you get into first gear? For us it seems like you’re in neutral.”
From Kimi Raikkonen: “No I am in first gear. No, please, listen, I can get the gears in but I have zero throttle response. Nothing happens when I… once you asked me to do the fail I lost throttle completely.”
To Kimi Raikkonen: “Understood Kimi. Go P zero and we’ll try to fire up on the MGU-K. K1 button then into P2.”

Qualifying session:

To Kimi Raikkonen: “OK I didn’t realise he was going to get in front of us Kimi, unfortunate.”

Race:

Lap 30 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Yeah it’s OK but I’m stuck now behind Seb.”

Lap 33 – From Kimi Raikkonen (Kimi wasn’t impressed with Di Resta): “Hey what the [censored by FOM] is this Williams guy doing? I mean if he cannot see behind then he should stay on the reporting stuff.”

Lap 34 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “I had the speed to stay out.”

Lap 38 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “He is going full speed? Because obviously Mercedes is catching. I have nothing I can do.”
38 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Understood Kimi. He has handling issues at the minute, Kimi, he is struggling with his handling.”

Lap 41 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “Whatever you meant you put me under massive threat from Mercedes for no reason.”
41 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Understood”

Lap 47 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “Yeah I have speed, a lot, but obviously this won’t be helping it.”
Lap 47 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Copy, copy.”

Lap 55 – From Kimi Raikkonen: “Yeah I’m going to only ruin my tyres even more behind. Is this all we’re going to do the rest of the race?”
Lap 55 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Confirm, Kimi, confirm. Hamilton has backed off slightly for engine temperatures.”
Lap 55 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “Massive pack of blues coming up.”

lap 67 – To Kimi Raikkonen: “OK Kimi let’s not take anything for granted. We don’t know what Hamilton’s going to do. Just keep going as you are.”