2015 Japanese Grand Prix team radio transcript

Fernando Alonso’s furious criticism of his Honda engine during the Japanese Grand Prix revealed the growing tension at McLaren during their engine supplier’s home race.

But he was far from the only driver having a frustrating time. For the second weekend in a row Daniil Kvyat was turning the airwaves blue, whether it was because of his engine not working properly or his tyres losing performance.

It was a frustrating race for Red Bull as Kvyat’s team mate Daniel Ricciardo tangled with Felipe Massa at the start and had to climb through the field. Massa, meanwhile, discovered just how punishing F1’s blue flag rules are for drivers who are a lap down.

pSergio Perez,another driver delayed at the start, was clearly hoping the Safety Car would appear and help him get back into the action. He complained about debris on the track on more than one occasion, and even referred to race director Charlie Whiting at one point.

At the front of the field the Mercedes drivers were largely ignored by the television cameras and one radio message hinted at the developments which were being overlooked – such as Lewis Hamilton’s mid-race lock-up.

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2015 Japanese Grand Prix team radio transcript

Lap*	From	To	Message
PR	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Wind’s dropped completely.
PR	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	Drive through the pit lane, do a start, no burn-outs please.
PR	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	OK
PR	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	When you come to a stop it’ll be torque three and strat six for the start, please, with the limiter off.
PR	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Marco Matassa	They are doing the practice start in the wrong place.
PR	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Understood.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Track doesn’t feel terrible, the tyres feeling quite good, balance is feeling quite neutral, I’d say.
PR	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	We’ll try our best to help you out with paracetemol and [unclear] but may run out of time. Let us know on front wing.
PR	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Er, keep it there.
PR	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	OK.
PR	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Feel the tyre pressures are going to come up quite high on this run. Lots of sliding around.
PR	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Tyre information: All other cars are on [medium] tyre.
PR	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	Strength is different to yesterday but it’s favourable for performance. So it’s going to be a head wind up through turns two, three, four , five six and a tail wind on straights. So you’ll have a bit of tail wind into turn one. Turn 16 may not be that affected, it’s a bit sheltered there.
FL	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	I lost a tyre temp sensor from the right-rear.
1	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	I got a problem.
1	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	OK you’ve got a puncture, Felipe. Box now, box now.
1	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	I have a puncture.
1	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK mate you’re doing a good job. Massa also has a puncture. He’s about 20 seconds behind you.
2	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Felipe, do you think there’s any front wing damage? Is the front wing OK?
2	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	I cannot see, I go very very slow I cannot even turn. I don’t know if it’s the problems is just a puncture it looks really really amazing.
2	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Understood.
3	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	I’ve got damage, I’ve got damage on the rear.
3	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	OK Checo, copy that, can you get back to the pits or is it too much? Right-rear pressure is dropping. Box, box. Pit confirm.
3	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	Is it not OK to continue?.
3	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Checo we think right-rear puncture.
3	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	There is a lot of brake pulling at the moment.
3	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK Dani so brake pulling is down to brake temperature splits, OK. Brake temperature-related. Probably aware that Ricciardo, Massa and Perez had issues during lap one.
4	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	There is a lot of debris on the back straight.
4	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Understood, understood, lot of debris on the back straight.
5	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Can I turn up the engine again?
5	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	That’s fine Nico, when you can go strat three.
5	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK Dani so that’s Button ahead, [hard] tyre. Does not have DRS potentially so let’s get stuck in.
5	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, we’ll open this gap out, need about ten seconds.
6	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	OK Max, put more pressure on Sauber, use energy if needed.
6	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	Clearly edited before the last phrase. Balance OK, but it is driving like on ice. Poor grip. I’m caught on the straight like a GP2. This is embarrassing, very embarrassing. I do my best.
6	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	Yep, understood, we know you will, you’re still P11, plenty to aim for.
7	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Very low grip. understeer but we also have big oversteer, very poor traction.
7	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK Jenson, similar comments on other tyre, similar comments from your team mate.
7	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Nico, engine temps are high, causing damage. Strat six and just hold back for five laps.
8	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	I can’t get past.
8	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	OK just keep pushing pressure.
8	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddolls	OK with the tyres so far. Just consistent deg, consistent overheating.
8	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Rosberg engine very hot. He’s dropped back.
9	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel so the floor is a little bit damaged, we’re a little bit down in load and we have a forward balance.
9	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	OK understood.
9	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	And Fernando let’s give it everything to build a gap to Massa behind.
9	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK Daniel so there’s only Hamilton and Vettel that are quicker than you at the moment. Doing a good job. We’ll still get some opportunities. Something can happen in the race.
10	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	I think the cars in front are going to pit soon, they’re destroying the rear tyres.
10	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	OK understood Jenson, stay out this lap. OK Jenson we think we should push, push now.
10	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Yep the Red Bull – sorry, the Toro Rosso – is in.
10	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Yep understood Jenson.
10	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	Currently still on Plan A. Hamilton 9.9, Bottas 40.8, 4.8 seconds behind you.
11	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	If you need one more lap. I saved two seconds in the first sector overtaking the Manor.
12	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	How long?
12	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Keep pushing Marcus, keep pushing.
12	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	OK Carlos we need a big push now you can use the battery, use the battery.
12	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So push hard now and overtake Bottas push hard now.
13	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	What’re we doing?
13	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Keep going Marcus, keep pushing. How are the tyres?
13	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	Losing a bit of grip but it’s tolerable.
13	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	OK, copy that.
13	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	Box Sebastian box.
14	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Dani multi 10 position 9 urgent please. Now.
14	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I am, I am, it doesn’t work.
14	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	So let’s go back to multi 9, and switch back to multi 10. So multi 9, multi 10, then try position 9.
15	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	OK Nico, Sergio on hard tyres moaning about rears. Just look after the rears.
15	Nico Rosberg	Tony Ross	Check the vibration right-front.
15	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Copy, copy. So Nico it’s not a reliability concern, we can see it.
15	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So box box box. Kimi has pitted, he’s outside your window at the moment, push hard now.
16	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, so box box, box box.
16	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	What tyres are Fernando and the red bull on?.
16	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson Fernando is on the option, he is on a new option. Red Bull on [hard]. Verstappen also on [hard]. Jenson we can use more fuel this is fuel four, fuel one would be good.
17	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	So push to attack Bottas to destroy his tires.
18	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Dani, this is a reliability issue, do not use the overtake button for reliability.
18	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	We are plan B, plan B.
18	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Marco Matassa	Copy.
19	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Good job Nico, good job. Strat 6 and use ERS, really important strat 6.
19	Felipe Nasr	Craig Gardiner	I can hear something underneath the car.
19	Craig Gardiner	Felipe Nasr	OK floor pressures still look OK but we’re still looking.
19	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	Rosberg passed Bottas, Rosberg 4.8 seconds behind you.
19	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	OK let me know for pace if you want me to race him hard.
19	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	We should keep him two seconds behind.
20	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	For information I have some problems with the engine. I am losing power on the engine for no reason. A horrible noise, like engine going up and down.
20	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	OK, we are looking into it.
22	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	This is good Kimi, good, keep going, let’s have him.
22	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	So let’s get a move on now, Dani.
22	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	Kvyat has pitted, looks like he’s gone to a three-stop to get out of sequence. Plan A still right for us.
22	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	The rear’s stabilising, it’s actually the front that’s getting worse.
23	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	No brakes in turn 11.
23	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK Dani, we have a split on the front axle again so just keep working them hard and hopefully that problem will resolve itself.
24	Craig Gardiner	Felipe Nasr	So Felipe we did see the oscillation on the steering torque, now it looks to have gone, is that the case?.
24	Felipe Nasr	Craig Gardiner	For me it comes and goes.
24	Craig Gardiner	Felipe Nasr	Yeah that’s what we see also.
24	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Good move Checo OK so purple mode 7.
26	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	Three stops is out of the question?
26	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	Fernando Plan A is still correct. Three-stop would be too slow to the end, we would lose too much time. Tyres are behaving to model.
26	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	This is a very good pace, you can keep it there, you are doing a strong job, very good job.
27	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	Alonso exclaimed in frustration after this message, which came after he was passed by Verstappen approaching turn one. GP2 engine, GP2!
29	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	There is a lot of debris on the main straight.
29	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Understood.
29	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Marco Matassa	I hit the bollard, careful with the front wing.
30	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Strat 8 really important this lap. Box box box, do the opposite of Vettel.
30	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Hamilton had flat-spotted a tyre. This vibration’s so big, I am struggling out here.
30	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK copy that Lewis, it won’t be long.
31	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	Do not lose time with Raikkonen, do not lose time with Raikkonen.
31	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	OK Carlos, keep going keep pushing, we need to overtake.
31	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Car is getting very hot.
32	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Racing the Marussias, racing the Marussias. They are being lapped but obviously they’ll be an annoyance.
32	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	OK now he’s about to keep Alonso behind, push in the points. And we need to get to the end with these tyres.
32	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	OK.
33	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Rosberg got ahead of Vettel at the end of their second stint. OK he jumped us.
33	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Checo you can use everything from the tyre for four or five laps, use everything from the tyre.
33	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Keep pushing Carlos, keep pushing, we are fighting for P10.
34	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	Please tell Charlie there is a lot of debris, please clean the track.
35	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Can you have a look at the braking for the hairpin please. How many more laps on the red button?.
35	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson we have 11 laps red button remaining.
35	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis everything looks under control, just need to watch out for flat spots.
36	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I just cant use these brakes.
36	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK copy Dani. If you can take it push the brake balance one click forward. If you can take it.
36	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I can’t, I have a flat spot already.
36	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Understood.
36	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	OK these tyres are [censored by FOM], let’s box.
36	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Box and confirm.
36	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	OK.
37	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Checo it will be a tight stop with Button and Ericsson their tyres are ten laps old.
38	Fernando Alonso	Mark Temple	What drivers we are racing with. Unbelievable. Poor guys.
39	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	So as mentioned, almost no threat from behind. 20 seconds, the race will finish in these positions. So if you want to try and make any more we need to push.
39	Josh Peckett	Will Stevens	Ensure all the cars behind you are let through now. There are five cars behind you, you need to let them past now please Will.
40	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Good job Checo, Ericsson hard tyre, 12 laps old.
42	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	And Fernando, drink drink. 13 laps to go after this. We want best pace to the end. And Fernando we are good for drinks to the end, let’s use it now.
42	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Multi 10, position 12 to try to help…
42	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Interrupts Can I [censored by FOM] use the overtake button guys or not?
42	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Dani, negative on the overtake button, negative on the overtake button. Just do as we say. Multi 10 position 12.
42	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Which position, sorry, I was busy.
42	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK let’s have multi 10 position 9. Dani so just confirm we cannot use the overtake button. We are unable to use the overtake button for the rest of this race for reliability issues. Any changes we make are to offer you a greater opportunity to pass the car ahead. So…
42	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	OK, understood.
43	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	Ericsson is moving under braking.
43	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Understood Ericsson is moving under braking.
43	Josh Peckett	Will Stevens	OK Will we have received a 5 second time penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
43	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Marco Matassa	What is the plan?
43	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	To keep it nice and steady for the moment. We have both cars on the points.
44	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I am losing the brakes guys again, the last chicane, absolutely no brakes.
44	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	Fernando for info tyres from the previous stint looked good after so we can push on this set.
45	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	OK rear temperatures on the limit, so no pushing hard now.
46	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, looks like we may have picked up a little bit of debris in the front wing, so if you start feeling understeer the open up diff high speed.
47	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	OK Max, rear temperatures critical.
47	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	I have a blue flag but no car behind.
47	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	OK so car behind is Ricciardo one-and-a-half seconds behind so we will need to let him through.
47	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	Yeah OK.
47	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson there’s still a lot of cars scrapping ahead of you, there could be opportunities at the end here.
48	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	OK Lewis, looks like half of that debris has now cleared, still losing a bit of front performance. just keep an eye on what you’re doing with the diff.
48	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	Rosberg lap time 8.7.
48	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Yeah the moment I start to be closer I can feel his wake, and then I start to slide and overheat.
48	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	OK copy.
49	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	This Manor has to go out of the way.
49	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	He will do, he’s got blue flag already.
49	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I need overtake button to pass them.
49	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	Negative Dani, negative.
49	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	OK mate, so 6 laps to go now. it’s going to get tasty ahead.
50	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Fight the Red Bulls, fight the red bulls.
51	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	You’re going to have to take here Dani, yep? OK. So let’s try and follow Kimi through on Ericsson
51	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	Kvyat passed Ericsson at the chicane. OK, finally.
VL	Peter Bonnington	Lewis Hamilton	Awesome stuff, Lewis, fantastic race mate, awesome result.
VL	Lewis Hamilton	Peter Bonnington	Fantastic job guys, absolutely flawless all weekend you guys, as always. It’s great to be back up here. Thank you so much for all the hard work. And everyone back home as well. Thank you.
VL	Tony Ross	Nico Rosberg	Great recovery Nico, just pity we ended up having to do that.
VL	Riccardo Adami	Sebastian Vettel	P3 Sebastian, P3. You got to the podium again.
VL	Sebastian Vettel	Riccardo Adami	Yeah I tried everything. I was three-and-a-half tenths down and the tyres were on the limit, so… Not more that I could’ve down in that lap, sorry. Ideally we should’ve pitted a lap earlier but, ah, you’re always a little bit smarter afterwards. Maybe we didn’t expect them to have that much pace on the out-lap. Grazie ragazzi, grande podium. And more champagne. Grazie. Yeah, shame with Rosberg, I think we could have stayed ahead, had we stayed ahead I think we could’ve managed to get P2.
VL	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Well done Kimi, good job, another solid race.
VL	Kimi Raikkonen	David Greenwood	OK, thanks. I think we did what we could from the starting position we had so thank you.
VL	David Greenwood	Kimi Raikkonen	Copy Kimi, yeah pace was definitely there, we just couldn’t do much more as you say from the starting position.
VL	Maurizio Arrivabene	Kimi Raikkonen	Thank you Kimi, good race.
VL	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Well done Valterri, P5,.
VL	Valtteri Bottas	Jonathan Eddolls	Still some points but for sure disappointing. Just not… The pace was not really there and maybe we should’ve been a bit more aggressive in the last stop. But next time.
VL	Jonathan Eddolls	Valtteri Bottas	Copy.
VL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Chequered flag Nico, Well done, great drive mate.
VL	Nico Hulkenberg	Brad Joyce	Bit lonely, but yeah a good job thank you guys. Good start, good first lap again that’s what made it and nice undercut. Well done. good job.
VL	Brad Joyce	Nico Hulkenberg	Thank you Nico.
VL	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	OK that’s it Romain. Well done, good job, P7.
VL	Romain Grosjean	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Thanks guys, I really struggled with this front wing and this front wheel locking, very strange. Good job.
VL	Julien Simon-Chautemps	Romain Grosjean	Well done, both cars in the points is important for the team.
VL	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	Great job Pastor, well done mate. You gained three paces, the team gained four, so that’s great.
VL	Pastor Maldonado	Mark Slade	Good job guys, good job.
VL	Mark Slade	Pastor Maldonado	We didn’t quite have the pace to take Hulkenberg today but otherwise really good, fantastic, well done Pastor.
VL	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	OK Max, good job, P9.
VL	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	I think that was not a bad race from P17.
VL	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Yeah, copy that.
VL	Max Verstappen	Xevi Pujolar	Also car felt good.
VL	Xevi Pujolar	Max Verstappen	Also thank you very much all the crew, thank you.
VL	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	P10 Carlos, P10.
VL	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Marco Matassa	I am just saying sorry for the pit entry incident. We should’ve been P8.
VL	Marco Matassa	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Yep, no worries for that, understood. We think that first two stints you showed a really good performance. Yeah we had that black spot on the pit stop. Anyway P10, one point in the bag.
VL	Mark Temple	Fernando Alonso	OK Fernando, that’s the chequered flag, P11, not quite what we wanted but we gave it everything that’s for sure.
VL	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	OK Checo, good job, good job, unfortunately not able to get back into the points today. That’s P12.
VL	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	What a shame, Who hit me on the first corner? Was Nico, no?
VL	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Checo we don’t know at the moment.
VL	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	How was the pace?
VL	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Checo the pace looked good. Both cars’ pace looked good.
VL	Sergio Perez	Tim Wright	And compared to Nico?
VL	Tim Wright	Sergio Perez	Checo obviously you had more free air than he did because you were back on your own but your pace looked good.
VL	Gianpiero Lambiase	Daniil Kvyat	OK Dani, that’s it mate, that’s P13.
VL	Daniil Kvyat	Gianpiero Lambiase	I was like a sitting duck.
VL	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	OK good job Marcus, that’s P14. It was a long stint in the end. We knew it was going to be tight but we wanted to undrcut Button so we had to go long and unfortunately we fell off the cliff in the last four or five laps.
VL	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	Yeah sorry for my spin, but other than that it was a pretty OK race.
VL	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Yeah I think you did a good job.
VL	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	Yeah thank you, you too guys, thanks. I thought I might be able to hold him off the rest of the race. I just had to be perfect at the exit.
VL	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	I saw that. We were also quite lucky there with Ricciardo launching at us.
VL	Marcus Ericsson	Erik Schuivens	Yeah I saw that in my mirrors. Could have been a big one.
VL	Erik Schuivens	Marcus Ericsson	Copy.
VL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	I think we had good pace there mate in clear air. And it obviously got a bit messy with blue flags and it messed up our race a bit. But pace and degradation was good.
VL	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	Understood. Yeah the start kept me in traffic, tyres went away pretty quickly. Any info at the start, anyone’s fault?
VL	Simon Rennie	Daniel Ricciardo	I would say, mate, looking at the TV, that Massa didn’t move across on you. You obviously had a very good start and you got squeezed from both sides.
VL	Daniel Ricciardo	Simon Rennie	OK, understood. Thanks anyways guys. Yep, could’ve been better but thank you.
VL	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Jenson we finished P16
VL	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Yeah obviously we had no way of holding those cars back at all. If they can overtake me into 130R I mean a big, big difference. Obviously Fernando was lucky enough not to have that. I think my race was going pretty well, I would say, until we got overtaken by Ericsson at the pit stop. I think obviously if it had stayed the other way around we would have stayed in front.
VL	Tom Stallard	Jenson Button	Yep, sorry about that Jenson. We’ll review after.
VL	Jenson Button	Tom Stallard	Tough weekend guys but more experience.
VL	Dave Robson	Felipe Massa	Yeah sorry mate tough day, really tough afternoon. A real shame, you deserved a lot more than that.
VL	Felipe Massa	Dave Robson	Yeah. Very frustrating.
VL	Nicholas Perrinn	Alexander Rossi	Chequered flag. Great drive Alex. A Sauber retired with three laps to go so we are P18.
VL	Alexander Rossi	Nicholas Perrinn	Sorry about the pit stop guys, my apologies.
VL	Josh Peckett	Will Stevens	So we finished P19. Nasr stopped just towards the end. Sorry it didn’t work out for us today.

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