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Team radio transcript

Australian Grand Prix 2019: Qualifying team radio

23 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Australian Grand Prix 2019, across 13 drivers. Nico HULKENBERG had the most, with 3.

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Robert KUBICAWilliams

    Engineer: The overtake button on the outlap didn't work, so I couldn't see quite clear.

  2. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: I don't know what that was but I just got some horrific fumes in the garage through my visor.

    Engineer: Yeah, copy that. It's all good, it's all good.

  3. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: That was a sweet lap, you're currently P5

    Nico HULKENBERG: Not so good from my side,

    Engineer: I

    Nico HULKENBERG: think there's a couple of tenths

    Engineer: in

    Nico HULKENBERG: there

  4. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Daniil KVYAT: Ok, something happened on the rear right wheel. Strong vibration.

    Engineer: It

    Daniil KVYAT: was exit of turn 4 of the vibration. Now it seems ok.

  5. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Just missed having got it in the way in the last corner, didn't start to push early enough.

  6. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: The track is improving very quickly.

  7. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: We need to push now. Push now, please. Too

    Romain GROSJEAN: late. Too late. Too late.

  8. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Good lap Alex, very good job. P9

  9. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Ok Carlos, we're P18 there, we're P18 Yeah ****

    Carlos SAINZ: That guy in the last sector, my god

    Engineer: Yeah that was Kubica with a puncture

  10. Lance STROLLRacing Point

    Engineer: I got

    Lance STROLL: some traffic at turn 9.

    Engineer: Did he... He didn't get out of the way. He

    Lance STROLL: didn't get out of the way. Didn't even attempt to get out of the way.

    Engineer: Copy that, Lance. Copy that, Lance. Who was it? Did you see? It was a Haas

    Lance STROLL: car or a Toro Rosso, I believe. Turn 9.

    Engineer: Copy that, Lance. So, unfortunately, Lance, by less than a tenth, we're not through. So, in P16, the Grosjean incident cost us that, basically. That was Grosjean, I'm afraid. Now, I understand, and he couldn't actually... He was on an outlap, and he couldn't actually do a lap, because they left too late to even be able to do a lap.

  11. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: It's not good timing for me, there's

    Engineer: a lot of traffic. Copy Lewis.

  12. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: Daaamn Final sector

  13. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, check the car when we come back, floor, front wing.

  14. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, that's

    Engineer: the

    Daniil KVYAT: same about the Ferrari at the end of the lap.

    Engineer: Yes, it is, Adani.

  15. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: Over, boost, boost, boost, pressure drop out.

    Engineer: Scenario 12, Scenario 12.

    Nico HULKENBERG: Aww, are you joking?

    Engineer: Box, Niko, box.

    Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, copy, copy.

  16. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Q3 was... not far away

    Alexander ALBON: Yeah, that traffic f***ed us quite badly I had to stop now before the last corner

  17. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Constantly having struggle with my right front brake.

    Engineer: OK, copy.

  18. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: Okay, that's P1, full 10th to Lewis, everything in the first sector.

  19. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: That's it. Well done mate. Oh, that was a tense session, but yeah, finally there. So that's a front row lockout

  20. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Well, thank you guys, you did a really good job, obviously we would

    Engineer: have

    Valtteri BOTTAS: preferred to be on board, but thanks

    Engineer: guys, you did a really good job with the car.

  21. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: That's a fine effort, nicely cleaned up on the end, that'll put you P4 mate, second row, P4.

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that was not bad, sorry Helmut.

    Engineer: Well done Mags, that was a good effort, especially with the preparation on that last run, so you got everything out of it you could, well done.

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, thank you, I think good recovery from the beginning of the day anyway.

  22. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: I hear a man confirmed P6 dude P6 awesome job man awesome job Great job everyone proud of you proud of you told you the car was good, but this is yeah

    Romain GROSJEAN: Yeah,

    Engineer: good job on your first one. Good job. Everyone rich has a number one. Good job. Good job. You too, dude you too

  23. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: yeah good job man very happy me too man guys let's do it tomorrow yeah baby great drive man really good job brilliant good start good stuff man

    Engineer: yeah in cabin bien

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