PR To Daniel Ricciardo For info tail wind is strongest turn two, three, four, five, also braking for eleven strong tail wind.

1 To Valtteri Bottas Copy, puncture.

1 From Nico Hulkenberg I got big damage at the front.

1 To Nico Hulkenberg The pressures look OK, is there any damage Nico?

1 From Nico Hulkenberg I think it’s the steering or something. I got squeezed in the middle. Can’t turn left, basically.

2 From Sebastian Vettel Check the car, I made contact, somebody hit me, check the pressures.

2 To Sebastian Vettel The car is fine.

3 From Felipe Nasr Is something broke on the rear? Because I’m sliding everywhere. The rear is very loose.

3 To Felipe Nasr Understood Felipe. At the moment looks OK on the data.

3 To Nico Hulkenberg Copy that. Bring it back to the pits if you can.

4 From Jenson Button I think I’ve hit some debris.

4 To Jenson Button Copy. Tyre pressures are OK, Jenson. Aero data looks OK after the debris. Well done on Gutierrez.

4 From Sergio Perez I got hit very hard from behind.

5 To Pascal Wehrlein OK Pascal Esteban is under investigation for forcing another driver off the track.

5 From Sergio Perez Yes from my side OK.

5 To Sergio Perez OK.

5 From Sergio Perez What an idiot, man. What a [censored by FOM] idiot. What he was doing?

6 To Max Verstappen OK Max just an update. Things starting to stabilise in and around you as you can see I’m sure. That was the fastest lap of the race. Other people looking after their tyres but not a disaster at the moment.

7 To Fernando Alonso Fernando for info there are no threats from behind currently but there are cars on the pit gap.

7 From Fernando Alonso Yeah we will try to overtake the Toro Rosso.

8 From Valtteri Bottas Is everything OK, the car? The rear end feels a bit poor.

8 To Valtteri Bottas Yep we do see some very small damage to the rear. Aero balance is a little bit further forwards. But your pace is OK.

8 To Daniel Ricciardo Box, Daniel, box.

9 From Daniil Kvyat I got no brakes into turn 11. Brakes are generally really weak. There’s a lot of sliding everywhere.

9 To Jolyon Palmer OK Jo you can use overtake to try to pass Kevin.

9 From Jolyon Palmer Yep. I’m quicker.

9 To Nico Rosberg OK so we’re going for the long game Nico so push hard now. Ricciardo and Raikkonen both in the pits.

9 From Nico Rosberg Push hard is not the long game.

10 To Romain Grosjean Good job. Allez mon Kiki! [Come on!]

10 To Lewis Hamilton OK Lewis go strat mode five and box, box.

10 From Nico Rosberg So box, box, box Nico.

10 To Max Verstappen OK box and pit confirm Max.

11 To Sebastian Vettel Pace is good, keep pushing.

12 From Kimi Raikkonen The grip doesn’t feel very good on this tyre.

12 From Fernando Alonso Behind Renaults, being lapped, what a disaster.

14 From Carlos Sainz Jnr Danny needs to let me by.

14 To Daniil Kvyat Next car behind is Carlos, new softs, do not impede Carlos.

14 To Carlos Sainz Jnr Carlos, Danny will let you by.

14 To Daniil Kvyat Danny please confirm. Carlos is on new softs, we are on different strategy. Thank you.

14 To Nico Rosberg So situation is you are the only car on medium. So got the long game, it’s going to come back towards us.

14 To Sebastian Vettel And box, Sebastian, box.

15 To Carlos Sainz Jnr OK Carlos there is debris on the exit kerb of turn one. Careful there.

15 From Max Verstappen That’s how we do it!

15 To Max Verstappen Nice job, mate.

17 To Daniil Kvyat OK Danny we will have a ten second penalty on the next pit stop for the incident lap one. Keep the head down we need to go as long as possible now and we change the strategy. Keep the head down.

18 To Lewis Hamilton Pace still good, Lewis.

20 To Max Verstappen Max just make sure that we can complete the stint we need OK, mate.

20 From Max Verstappen I’m not here to finish fourth.

20 To Jolyon Palmer OK Jo you are much faster than Kevin, his pace in 45.5 at the moment, and you in 44.7…

20 From Jolyon Palmer Yeah, I’ve know this the whole race.

22 To Jenson Button Well done Jenson, well done. Just watch the locking on the front-left.

22 To Daniil Kvyat Not much we can do with top speed, Danny. Just keep the head down, OK?

22 From Daniil Kvyat OK.

22 To Kevin Magnussen OK Kev, Jo’s now four-and-a-half seconds behind you, he’s just done a 45.4, we need to pick up the pace if we can.

22 From Kevin Magnussen I’m just a little bit stuck behind the Sauber so take it easy guys.

22 To Kevin Magnussen Understood Kev.

23 From Daniil Kvyat Fourth gear wasn’t coming in.

23 To Daniil Kvyat Understood.

24 To Sergio Perez Checo how is the aero balance? We think there may be some losses at the rear from the damage.

24 From Sergio Perez Yeah I agree. I have no traction at all. But at the same time I have a lot of understeer.

24 To Sergio Perez Copy.

25 To Jolyon Palmer OK Jo nice overtake on Nasr. Go and catch Kevin now he’s a second slower than you.

26 To Lewis Hamilton Lewis you can afford to pick up the pace a little bit, it won’t be long now.

27 To Max Verstappen What happened, Max?

27 From Max Verstappen I thought you boxed me, sorry.

28 To Sebastian Vettel Because Verstappen had a [censored by FOM] up, a very long pit stop, so we can come ahead of him and go to the end.

29 To Jenson Button Jenson we’re box this lap, box this lap, everything you’ve got.

29 To Sebastian Vettel Box, Sebastian, box.

30 From Max Verstappen I have an engine failure, I think, or something.

30 From Max Verstappen There’s something hitting the engine. The faster I drive, the harder it hits.

30 To Max Verstappen Can you try to get up the gears or not Max?

30 From Max Verstappen Yeah but something is hitting hard inside the engine.

31 To Lewis Hamilton VSC, keep the delta positive, you are boxing under VSC.

32 To Pascal Wehrlein The car ahead is Nasr, he looks like he could be trying to one-stop and is lapping quite slowly at the moment.

32 From Daniel Ricciardo So they got a free pit stop, basically?

32 To Daniel Ricciardo Yes mate, that is correct.

32 From Daniel Ricciardo That’s so [censored by FOM] up.

33 To Felipe Massa OK so Verstappen’s car’s just being moved out of the way so restart soon.

33 From Felipe Massa They’re just too slow, man. Cannot do that.

33 From Felipe Massa Just lost four seconds! Four seconds! Unbelievable! Look where Alonso is and look where he was. So four seconds.

34 To Daniel Ricciardo OK mate you did a good job there. It wasn’t quite as bad as it could have been. You can see Rosberg ahead. Let’s get after him.

35 From Jolyon Palmer Can you not help me out a little bit here?

36 From Sergio Perez Is the wind picking up?

36 To Sergio Perez Yes, Checo, yes.

36 To Sebastian Vettel We have some rear wing drop-outs as you may notice.

36 From Sebastian Vettel Yeah, some! Some is good, keep joking.

39 From Kimi Raikkonen Why there was sparks at the rear?

39 To Kimi Raikkonen K2 is available.

39 From Kimi Raikkonen No, why was there…

39 To Kimi Raikkonen There was a gun still attached as you left.

39 From Kimi Raikkonen OK.

39 To Kimi Raikkonen Stop, stop Kimi. Stop stop stop.

40 To Kimi Raikkonen Sorry Kimi we think the rear’s not attached.

40 From Kimi Raikkonen So what do I do? Switch off or go?

40 To Kimi Raikkonen Can you come back to the pit lane? Roll back into the pit lane?

40 From Kimi Raikkonen What you want that I reverse? I can just slide it down. It’s disallowed?

40 To Kimi Raikkonen Don’t reverse.

40 From Kimi Raikkonen If I let go the brakes it’s going to slide down.

40 To Kimi Raikkonen Just let go of the brakes, Kimi.

40 From Kimi Raikkonen So you want that I switch off?

40 To Kimi Raikkonen You can reverse back. OK we need to switch off. Switch off, Kimi, we’re too hot, I’m sorry. So switch off Kimi, we’re too hot.

41 To Daniil Kvyat We are catching Ericsson nicely. There is still some points on the table if something happens in front.

44 To Felipe Massa We’re going to get him this time so we stay in go charge and use overtake.

44 From Daniel Ricciardo Keep me posted on Rosberg’s times. I would love to catch that [censored by FOM].

45 From Kevin Magnussen How much better if super-soft at the end? Where would I finish theoretically?

45 To Kevin Magnussen There’s a possibility to finish two positions in front of Ericsson who’s two cars ahead of you now.

45 From Kevin Magnussen OK let’s do that.

45 To Kevin Magnussen OK.

48 To Sergio Perez The group of Sainz, Massa and Alonso are fighting ahead.

49 To Romain Grosjean They have a system problem with the blue flag so when Ricciardo’s close enough let him through. That’s blue flag now, blue flag for Ricciardo. Perfect dude, thank you.

50 To Jenson Button Jenson blue flags Rosberg is the car behind.

50 From Jenson Button Yeah he just locked up and ran wide, so dropped back.

53 From Fernando Alonso [Censored by FOM] Felipe closed me on the door. I was already alongside him.

53 To Fernando Alonso Any car damage?

53 From Fernando Alonso I don’t know but [censored by FOM] you cannot close the door there that easy with half a car in front of you.

53 To Fernando Alonso Understood. Let’s go and get Sainz.

54 To Daniil Kvyat Vettel exiting the pit lane now. If you can get in front Magnussen will get blue flag.

54 From Felipe Massa He just pushed me out.

54 To Felipe Massa We’re talking to the FIA. Let’s get right back on him.

54 To Felipe Massa OK Felipe so they’re going to investigate Alonso at the end of the race so we need to stay within five seconds of him.

55 To Carlos Sainz Jnr Hold on, hold on.

55 To Felipe Massa OK Felipe we’ve got a front-left puncture.

55 From Felipe Massa Is it the last lap or not?

55 To Felipe Massa No, box this lap.

VL To Fernando Alonso OK Fernando that is the chequered flag. Fantastic drive. P5. Awesome.

VL From Fernando Alonso Nice. Nice race, guys. Fight until the end like you saw. Good points.

VL To Fernando Alonso Yep great work well done. Did Will shake your hand or not? I can’t remember.

VL From Fernando Alonso Ah, yeah. Many times. So now we can get back to normal. Not shaking and shaking. Nice races now.

VL To Fernando Alonso Great. Nice work.

VL To Jenson Button Jenson that’s P9 well done you’ve made up ten places today, good result.

VL From Jenson Button Good job guys looks like a good haul of points. Obviously didn’t have the outright pace but not too bad especially the first couple of laps. A lot of fun.

VL To Jenson Button Yeah Jenson first couple of laps were mega.

VL To Romain Grosjean Chequered flag. 100th race back in the points, awesome dude.

VL To Romain Grosjean Well done Romain. Fantastic. We got a point.

VL To Lewis Hamilton Get in there, mate! What a drive. Really well managed. Awesome result, Lewis.

VL To Lewis Hamilton Perfect drive, Lewis. Really well controlled, fantastic.

VL To Daniil Kvyat Hard luck with the penalty. You’ve done a very good job today, anyway.

VL From Daniil Kvyat Yeah sorry about the penalty. We review it of course but nothing can do.

VL To Daniil Kvyat The gap to Magnussen is 4.3 seconds, let’s see what happens after the race.

VL From Daniil Kvyat Well he has to get a penalty, come on. Otherwise everyone can overtake off the track, Charlie, come on man.

VL To Daniil Kvyat Copy Danny. We will review it later.

VL To Kevin Magnussen OK Kev so nice job. Currently P11 there’s an investigation possibly for the overtake with Kvyat. But nice job in the end and where we’re coming from qualifying yesterday.

VL From Kevin Magnussen Well done everyone in the garage, really good job.

VL To Felipe Massa Well we’ve been incredibly unlucky there. We were so much quicker than them.

VL From Felipe Massa Unbelievable.

VL To Felipe Massa It’s a real shame.

VL To Felipe Nasr So Felipe P15 at the end. Good race from you, good job.

VL From Sergio Perez Yeah sorry there with this idiot that ruined our race. I don’t know what he was trying to do and I think we had quite poor damage. It was very difficult, especially the last stint, the ride of the car was very poor.

VL From Daniel Ricciardo Cheers guys. Not the most exciting but it’s a podium. Thank you.

VL To Daniel Ricciardo So we were obviously unfortunate with the VSC. It was due to Verstappen had a gearbox problem obviously and retired. So Rosberg basically would have been five seconds behind us at our pit stop but he got a free ten seconds, came out five seconds in front of us. I think you would have and should have beaten him. I don’t think he had any scary pace, you did a good job today mate.

VL From Daniel Ricciardo Yeah I don’t doubt it. Frustrating but what do you do? It sucks. Alright. Thanks anyways, guys. Appreciate it.

VL To Daniel Ricciardo Well done Daniel it was a good drive. I think Rosberg on a normal strategy would probably have put the softs on as well because he run that [medium] in the middle [stint]. And they did play out your nice message on the live feed so commentators trying to work out what a ‘mofo’ is.

VL From Daniel Ricciardo It means he’s a really nice person, one of my best mates.

VL To Nico Rosberg Nice recovery there Nico, nice recovery.

VL To Carlos Sainz Jnr Haha! P6 Carlos! P6! Well done, awesome race. I liked it. Good, really good job. Awesome last stint.

VL From Carlos Sainz Jnr Thank you. Yeah I think that was the maximum guys. Good job everyone, we deserve to be back.

VL To Carlos Sainz Jnr I think this was one of the best races you’ve done with us. Well done Carlos.