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
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Robert KUBICA · Williams · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: The overtake button on the outlap didn't work, so I couldn't see quite clear.
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.
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
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.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Just missed having got it in the way in the last corner, didn't start to push early enough.
Engineer: The track is improving very quickly.
Engineer: We need to push now. Push now, please. Too
Romain GROSJEAN: late. Too late. Too late.
Engineer: Good lap Alex, very good job. P9
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
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.
Lewis HAMILTON: It's not good timing for me, there's
Engineer: a lot of traffic. Copy Lewis.
Nico HULKENBERG: Daaamn Final sector
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, check the car when we come back, floor, front wing.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, that's
Engineer: the
Daniil KVYAT: same about the Ferrari at the end of the lap.
Engineer: Yes, it is, Adani.
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.
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
Lewis HAMILTON: Constantly having struggle with my right front brake.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Engineer: Okay, that's P1, full 10th to Lewis, everything in the first sector.
Engineer: That's it. Well done mate. Oh, that was a tense session, but yeah, finally there. So that's a front row lockout
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.
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.
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
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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