Sebastian Vettel – 2017 Italian Grand Prix team radio transcript
Second practice session:
To Seastian Vettel: “Constant speed out of seven, DRS on, off, on like this morning.”
From Sebastian Vettel: “OK got it.”
From Sebastian Vettel: “What’s the traffic behind?”
To Seastian Vettel: “Wehrlein, Perez out lap. Kimi behind Perez out lap as well. Prepare your lap, engine five.”
Qualifying session:
The track was very wet when qualifying began. Several drivers complained about aquaplaning and a crash for Romain Grosjean brought out the red flags.
From Sebastian Vettel: “Obviously as you saw there’s a lot of aquaplaning on the straight.”
To Sebastian Vettel: “Understood.”
To Sebastian Vettel: “Focus on the brake warm-up and you can make the gap at the end of the lap.”
To Sebastian Vettel: “More rain coming.”
From Sebastian Vettel: “The gap behind?”
To Sebastian Vettel: “20 seconds. Massa’s at turn eight. Reverse off.”
Race:
Lap 9 – To Sebastian Vettel: “Bottas five…”
Lap 9 – From Sebastian Vettel: “What’s the pace?”
Lap 9 – To Sebastian Vettel: “Hamilton lap time 25.6, Bottas 25.3. Tyres are healthy at the moment.”
Lap 27 – From Sebastian Vettel: “OK I am big time struggling with the rear now.”
Lap 27 – To Sebastian Vettel: “Understood. SOC [state of charge] four.”
Lap 50 – To Sebastian Vettel: “Very good lap, keep it there. Hamilton lap time 23.8, Bottas 4.4, Ricciardo 3.7.”
Lap 50 – To Sebastian Vettel: “Ricciardo 4.6 behind, Ricciardo lap time 23.4.”
VL – To Sebastian Vettel: “P3, Sebastian, well done bravo.”
VL – To Sebastian Vettel: “Well done Seb, well done.”
VL – From Sebastian Vettel: “Grazie ragazzi. Giornata difficile ma grazie tifosi, grazie mille. The last 15, 20 laps after I went off something was wrong so that’s why I went up and down on engine.”
VL – To Sebastian Vettel: “Yeah we saw that. Mode slow please.”
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