Australian Grand Prix 2019: Practice 3 team radio
13 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Australian Grand Prix 2019, across 10 drivers. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 2.
These are transcripts of real team radio audio, produced by speech recognition and presented as an archive rather than as edited prose. Radio is clipped and noisy, so wording can be imperfect. Each message is attributed to the driver or their engineer, and the original audio is playable in the archive.
Who was on the radio
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Robert KUBICA · Williams · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: I'm
George RUSSELL: sliding all over the place
Engineer: Copy that
Pierre GASLY: Most of us have grip everywhere, like just sliding, all corners.
Engineer: And for your awareness the track grip looks pretty poor everyone's complaining about poor grip
Valtteri BOTTAS: The steering is pointing quite a lot to the right.
Engineer: Copy.
Lando NORRIS: I've still got poor drivability, a lot of vibrations in low revs.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, I had a bit of a problem with the downshift, I think, I don't know why.
Engineer: Copy, Dani.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, I don't know if I did it myself or it happened, but I think I touched the paddle a bit.
Engineer: Dani, we think you touched the paddle, the upshift paddle.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, I know. That's how it felt.
Engineer: These
Lewis HAMILTON: rears aren't going down.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: There is some debris on the entry of the bit lane.
Engineer: Copy, we will report it.
Robert KUBICA: Can you check left front? I clip the wall on pit entry.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, we pick up that **** again on our tires. Is that the painted line on the pit line that is the issue?
Engineer: Ok, copy. We will report.
Engineer: Okay, good luck mate.
Lewis HAMILTON: Over the sectors
Engineer: Your purple, sectors 1 and sector 3, traffic in the middle
Engineer: And box now box, you can push this lap.
Charles LECLERC: Hey come on, I mean, it was a push lap. What's happening? Is there something wrong or what?
Engineer: Nothing wrong, we need you to box and we will do a practice start.
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