WATCH: Alpine summon the lion spirit again in Qatar The best team radio from Sunday's Grand Prix

The inaugural Qatar Grand Prix provided plenty of drama under the lights at the Losail International Circuit, with Lewis Hamilton romping to victory to alimony his title hopes alive. But a combination of grid penalties, car forfeiture and tyre issues saw no end of whoopee pursuit in his wake – and kept the engineers very much on their toes. And as a result, the airwaves were filled with interesting messages from disgruntled drivers…

In practice, Sebastian Vettel uncomplicatedly detailed the rogue items rolling virtually in his cockpit, while his team mate was much less sanguine with his unravelment of his car’s performance, and then Pierre Gasly was left plain tumbled by a neat 360 Degree spin.

Roll on qualifying, and Carlos Sainz couldn’t take the pressure, but Fernando Alonso certainly could as he found the track very much to his liking. The Spaniard was equally cheery with how his race was going, plane managing to recall shades of Hungary as he begged a favour from his team mate.

Toto Wolff took to the airwaves to encourage Valtteri Bottas on, and then was heard congratulating Hamilton as the team immediately switched focus to Saudi Arabia. Hit play on the video whilom to hear all the rest of the weightier radio from Qatar…

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