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Team radio transcript

Austrian Grand Prix 2019: Practice 2 team radio

21 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Austrian Grand Prix 2019, across 12 drivers. Alexander ALBON had the most, with 4.

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. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Ok Alex, what happened there?

    Alexander ALBON: Just zero traction so... I'll try again Ok,

    Engineer: understood

  2. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Alexander ALBON: Yeah, definitely negative. Felt like no grip on the front tyres at all under braking and also turn 6 is an incredible result.

    Engineer: Nah,

    Alexander ALBON: but did you see the understeer in 6? Okay, I'll try not to.

  3. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Alexander ALBON: So now we have this entry shut up on this, yes it's true, but the delta between entry and wind now is bigger than it's ever been

    Engineer: Understood, we will stick to the plan

  4. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: A lot of rear locking, turn

    Engineer: 3, turn 4, anything I should do with toggles Ok understood, Carlos is now the car behind you, 2 seconds back on a timelapse

  5. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: What is the limiter at 60?

    Engineer: It's not correct if it is don't know sorry

  6. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Engineer: Ok, try one more lap,

    Daniil KVYAT: but what we did to the car, something is wrong, it's no grip at all mechanically, I'm just sliding everywhere, turn 3, turn 1 last lap was quite good, but I have sharp entries to high speed, very sharp and neutral balance all the way to the high speed, so it wasn't very helpful.

  7. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: What happened in turn 1 then, was it just wind or something?

    Engineer: Standby, JAWS just checking. And Lando, the only thing we can see is a bit more tailwinds through there. And if you want it, suggest Silver D5, Silver D5.

  8. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Charge on, charge on. Do you need to flap adjust? Your light timer? Yes.

    Alexander ALBON: Well, it's okay, we'll keep going, because the industry is massive.

  9. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Kevin, are you okay to go up to high fuel, or do you want to try and run again on these used tires?

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, not ideal to go high fuel immediately. I don't know.

    Engineer: Yeah, for now we'll stay... It looks like it will clear really quickly. Yeah, there's some debris, but yeah, okay, we'll monitor it, we'll stay low for now, we'll just stay ready. Okay, so you're box now, box.

  10. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: Oh, big crash, big crash, red flag, red flag. Follow the delta and remember to not overtake. Box.

  11. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: There's

    Engineer: a

    George RUSSELL: bit of gravel on the exit of turn six between turn six and seven if they can just sweep it while it's red

  12. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Racing point class is nearly cresting to me, sir.

    Engineer: Has made any contact.

  13. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: ...he's on a time-lapse...

    Nico HULKENBERG: ...he didn't

    Engineer: see

    Nico HULKENBERG: me there, he was online, I'm backing off...

  14. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Daniil KVYAT: I went wide

    Engineer: Volkerberg is pushing behind Charge on, charge on I

    Daniil KVYAT: will take another one if possible

    Engineer: Yes, we can

  15. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: Front

    Romain GROSJEAN: left

    Engineer: Understood Well

    Romain GROSJEAN: actually all over the place brother Yeah, all over the place Don't know how long we can carry on

  16. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Carlos, are you happy with the front wing, are you happy with the front wing?

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, more or less, it depends.

    Engineer: Next tyre is hard, suggest to box this lap, suggest to box this lap.

  17. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Engineer: If I could get the tyres pulled, I'll try again. Hamilton, high fuel, two seconds behind you.

  18. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: Is it time to go high fuel or otherwise no point really completing another lap?

    Engineer: We just do what we need to do to learn about the car Niko, then we'll do whatever's left at the end.

    Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, I'll do one more lap.

  19. Lance STROLLRacing Point

    Lance STROLL: Yeah, but regardless of the track, I feel like I'm really slow right now.

  20. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: Got a lot of understeer in the high speed right now.

    Engineer: Copy.

  21. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: I

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: think we are losing speed on the spread.

    Engineer: Copy, we are looking.

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