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
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 4 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Robert KUBICA · Williams · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Bottas 45.6 on medium.
Engineer: Main loss was turn 7 with the front and the rotation.
Engineer: OK Lewis, that's P1, 4 tenths to Leclerc in P2, he was on the soft tyre.
Engineer: Big button this lap big button this lap
Engineer: You just keep the temp you can. The surface temps have calmed down.
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.
Engineer: And we turn improving, going on 43.4, 43.4, and charge 42.6. And track is still improving a lot for everybody.
Engineer: and back to mode raise, mode raise
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
Engineer: To give you a reference on lap times, P4 is Albon 144.1, P5 Perez 144.4
Engineer: Time lost to Lando primarily is on the straight, he got a mega toe, so Lando is P8, 1.4458
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.
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.
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
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
Engineer: can we
Valtteri BOTTAS: go up from the rear bar last one AFEM
Engineer: thinking also to tickle the MBR back halfway
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.
Lewis HAMILTON: Strap And
Engineer: it'll be strap mode 3
Engineer: Lewis is still to finish his lap, you are 2 tenths down in the first sector, same in the middle sector.
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.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Ok, you have to abort this flight.
Engineer: Ok, understood. So watch out Hamilton, Leclerc and Norris behind you might be pushing.
Lewis HAMILTON: anyone improved?
Engineer: Valtteri hasn't improved just through Leclerc is on a faster one now
Engineer: Engine 5, position 4. Engine 5, position 4.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Holy ****, I hit the limiter!
Engineer: Yep, I see that. Recharge on please Max, and we will box this lap.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, traffic in the last five corners behind Raikkonen. Yeah, sure. He did get out of the way.
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