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2014 Australian Grand Prix team radio transcript
2014 Australian Grand Prix
March 18, 2014 at 12:00 pm by Will Wood 25 comments
Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, Albert Park, 2014Nico Rosberg only had two things to worry about during his cruise to victory in the Australian Grand Prix: Fuel consumption and reliability.
With one Mercedes falling by the wayside early in the race, Rosberg’s team radio messages show he was anxious to ensure he was doing everything possible to preserve his car as the race went on.
Rosberg set the fastest lap of the entire race as early as lap 19, shortly after switching to a ‘rich 20′ engine map. Immediately after that came an intruction to “target +0.3″. From that point on he only lapped within three-tenths of a second of his fastest time once, yet was over 24 seconds ahead at the chequered flag, indicating Mercedes had a lot of performance in hand.
Mercedes’ rivals understood how large their performance advantage was and doubted they could compete with them, as Jenson Button’s radio message on lap 11 makes clear.
Team mate Hamilton betrayed little emotion when told to park his car five laps into the race. Sebastian Vettel was notably less sanguine as his faint hopes of a tenth consecutive race victory were wrecked within the opening laps.
And Romain Grosjean, whose radio messages throughout the weekend betrayed his frustration at Lotus’s myriad problems, sounded utterly dejected when his E22 cried enough with a dozen laps to go.
But the drivers’ problems weren’t limited to the new engines. Valtteri Bottas, who had one self-inflicted prolem earlier in the race, also had to cope with a DRS fault, though it didn’t stop him overtaking 14 cars on his way to fifth place.
Here are all the broadcast team radio messages from the Australian Grand Prix up to the chequered flag.
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2014 Australian Grand Prix team radio transcript
2014 Australian Grand Prix
March 18, 2014 at 12:00 pm by Will Wood 25 comments
Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, Albert Park, 2014Nico Rosberg only had two things to worry about during his cruise to victory in the Australian Grand Prix: Fuel consumption and reliability.
With one Mercedes falling by the wayside early in the race, Rosberg’s team radio messages show he was anxious to ensure he was doing everything possible to preserve his car as the race went on.
Rosberg set the fastest lap of the entire race as early as lap 19, shortly after switching to a ‘rich 20′ engine map. Immediately after that came an intruction to “target +0.3″. From that point on he only lapped within three-tenths of a second of his fastest time once, yet was over 24 seconds ahead at the chequered flag, indicating Mercedes had a lot of performance in hand.
Mercedes’ rivals understood how large their performance advantage was and doubted they could compete with them, as Jenson Button’s radio message on lap 11 makes clear.
Team mate Hamilton betrayed little emotion when told to park his car five laps into the race. Sebastian Vettel was notably less sanguine as his faint hopes of a tenth consecutive race victory were wrecked within the opening laps.
And Romain Grosjean, whose radio messages throughout the weekend betrayed his frustration at Lotus’s myriad problems, sounded utterly dejected when his E22 cried enough with a dozen laps to go.
But the drivers’ problems weren’t limited to the new engines. Valtteri Bottas, who had one self-inflicted prolem earlier in the race, also had to cope with a DRS fault, though it didn’t stop him overtaking 14 cars on his way to fifth place.
Here are all the broadcast team radio messages from the Australian Grand Prix up to the chequered flag.
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