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Team radio transcript

Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019: Practice 3 team radio

29 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019, across 12 drivers. Valtteri BOTTAS had the most, with 5.

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. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: Bottas 45.6 on medium.

  2. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: Main loss was turn 7 with the front and the rotation.

  3. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: OK Lewis, that's P1, 4 tenths to Leclerc in P2, he was on the soft tyre.

  4. Pierre GASLYRed Bull

    Engineer: Big button this lap big button this lap

  5. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: You just keep the temp you can. The surface temps have calmed down.

  6. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: How are the sectors looking?

    Engineer: Purple sectors 1 and 2, just losing a tenth to Leclerc final sector, see if we can see where that is.

  7. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: And we turn improving, going on 43.4, 43.4, and charge 42.6. And track is still improving a lot for everybody.

  8. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: and back to mode raise, mode raise

  9. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Angalusa P3, Vettel P2, Leclerc P1, Leclerc still with that 42.6

    Lewis HAMILTON: Equal over all the sectors or?

    Engineer: It's mainly middle sector to Leclerc So it's just half a tenth of sector 1 and a couple of hundredths sector 3, so in the middle, half a second

  10. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: To give you a reference on lap times, P4 is Albon 144.1, P5 Perez 144.4

  11. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Time lost to Lando primarily is on the straight, he got a mega toe, so Lando is P8, 1.4458

  12. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Engineer: OK, can we keep 7th gear please, so don't upshift to 8th, keep 7th gear please.

    Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, you want me to stay out?

    Engineer: Staying out, staying out.

  13. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: So, your P13, Roman's P16, yeah, I don't know what you think, what's the main thing we can help you with on the car?

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Don't really know, I think it feels good, it's surprising we're so

    Engineer: far down. Well, we have some stuff, and I think that if you had the decent temps on the first push, then you would get the new tyre effect, so I think if we just get you a better out lap and a clean first lap, then I'm sure there's a lot of lap time in that.

  14. Robert KUBICAWilliams

    Engineer: But we'll take a cool down there just maintain front temperature go back to engine mode 3 engine mode 3

    Robert KUBICA: copy

    Engineer: For

    Robert KUBICA: some reason I lost half a second Last straight line

    Engineer: Yeah, copy we see that

    Robert KUBICA: Yeah, probably the tow from the before run but Previous run I didn't have massive tow

  15. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: Need to tell this towards it's not possible that they don't tell drivers to get out of the way and I know that

  16. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: can we

    Valtteri BOTTAS: go up from the rear bar last one AFEM

    Engineer: thinking also to tickle the MBR back halfway

  17. George RUSSELLWilliams

    Engineer: So currently to Robert's quickest we are plus 0.5 sector 1, plus 0.9 sector 2 and minus 0.4 sector 3.

  18. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Strap And

    Engineer: it'll be strap mode 3

  19. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: Lewis is still to finish his lap, you are 2 tenths down in the first sector, same in the middle sector.

  20. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: I had a hesitation out of turn 2, but you know, if I need to use another gear. Copy, we'll look into that.

  21. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Ok, you have to abort this flight.

    Engineer: Ok, understood. So watch out Hamilton, Leclerc and Norris behind you might be pushing.

  22. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: anyone improved?

    Engineer: Valtteri hasn't improved just through Leclerc is on a faster one now

  23. Pierre GASLYRed Bull

    Engineer: Engine 5, position 4. Engine 5, position 4.

  24. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: Okay, after this, so box, box and practice the slow in lap, quad in lap, limit 200 kph. So currently P4 and Luis is P5. So the clerk leading with 41.6, Verstappen 42.8, Vettel 42.9.

  25. Sergio PEREZRacing Point

    Engineer: Box, box, pit confirm.

    Sergio PEREZ: We're in box, no more time.

    Engineer: No checker, not time that we have to box, box, box.

  26. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: If you want you can start another lap and then abort it for a start, or otherwise come in now if you are happy there for a start. I go for another one. OK, happy for that.

  27. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Any key areas I can improve?

    Engineer: So we're losing time on exit of turn 6 and 12, so exit of 6 and 12.

  28. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Holy ****, I hit the limiter!

    Engineer: Yep, I see that. Recharge on please Max, and we will box this lap.

  29. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, traffic in the last five corners behind Raikkonen. Yeah, sure. He did get out of the way.

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