Bahrain Grand Prix 2019: Practice 2 team radio
19 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2019, across 10 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: The dash lights are pretty bright, just for the next run if we can turn it down. Understood, we'll turn it down some more.
Lewis HAMILTON: Front's
Engineer: a
Lewis HAMILTON: very low tempo.
Alexander ALBON: I'm
Engineer: just
Alexander ALBON: struggling to keep the front tyre temps up
George RUSSELL: That wheeling was, yeah,
Engineer: impossible with the traffic. Copy. We got some.
Pierre GASLY: Pretty bad traffic in turn one, that last lap. My car balance is a lot better, still lacking a bit of rear on the exit.
Lewis HAMILTON: other people improved on their second laps no
Engineer: other top runners have improved uh Gasly only one
Engineer: and the lights are pretty pretty in my face I don't know do we usually dim them the shift lights and the recharge light or put some color over it we can get black felt pen and just dim them down put some shade on them
Engineer: really
Max VERSTAPPEN: slow also on the straight yeah
Engineer: spotted that as well we're looking into it
Alexander ALBON: What is going on in the last corner is unbelievable, what am I
Engineer: supposed
Alexander ALBON: to do?
Engineer: The
Alexander ALBON: problem is when I try to brake late, it's when I get all these issues.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Track is clear behind, your front right pressure and temperature is not working and
Charles LECLERC: we'll need some
Engineer: multifunctions, I'll let you know.
Lewis HAMILTON: Who's that behind me?
Engineer: So you've got a Kiviat car behind you
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, I nearly got torpedoed
Nico HULKENBERG: Yep, I can hear you now. We
Engineer: think we should come down 1.5% going to the next towers.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yep, I agree.
Pierre GASLY: This engine braking is still upsetting the rear so much.
Engineer: Copy.
Nico HULKENBERG: How's the pace?
Engineer: Pace is good, but everyone's doing very similar lap times. There's only about five cars on the mediums at the moment.
Engineer: The rays
Valtteri BOTTAS: are definitely going a bit more now.
Lando NORRIS: Erm, I think it's misfiring or something.
Engineer: OK, stand by.
Lando NORRIS: Low revs, off corners.
Engineer: OK, we're checking the data now. And Scenario 1 please, Scenario 1. And bring the car back, please bring the car back.
Lewis HAMILTON: Can I have box? Just engine mileage for no reason.
Engineer: OK Lucy, if we could have just one more lap and then we'll box. Just to give us a good reference.
Engineer: OK, loose, we're happy to box now, so box, box.
Nico HULKENBERG: There's like some pick-up Made a little bit more to the right of the front right tyre, either pick-up or some weird shadow But it's been there all the time
Engineer: Okay Nico, copy that
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