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Bahrain Grand Prix2019 · Practice 3 team radio

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12:01 to 13:02
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22 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2019, across 15 drivers. 19 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Daniel RICCIARDO 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.

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  1. Romain GROSJEANHaas12:01:570:08

    Engineersplitting to the right on the braking. Understood.

  2. George RUSSELLWilliams12:04:480:10

    EngineerCheck your DRS.

    George RUSSELLDRS is not working.

    EngineerYep, okay, understood on the DRS.

  3. George RUSSELLWilliams12:05:210:07

    George RUSSELLYeah, DRS works. Copy.

  4. Antonio GIOVINAZZIAlfa Romeo12:11:500:09

    Antonio GIOVINAZZIYeah, front axis is not working, the temperature.

    EngineerCopy Antonio.

  5. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo12:18:160:30

    Kimi RAIKKONENOk, why is it like when I have a PT4 on my steering wheel and I dash it shows PT3? Which one is it?

    EngineerWhen

    Kimi RAIKKONENI put the switch

    Engineerin PT4 it says PT3 and I dash it. Ah, ok, I got what you said. Alright, I'm not sure. Which one is it? Yeah, but... Yeah, which... I just have to look which one it is. Ok, ok, we're having a look.

  6. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo12:19:230:20

    Kimi RAIKKONENNo, yeah, I know. I have PT4 on the steering wheel, and that is just PT3. So there's one step different between the two, so tell me which one is right.

    EngineerTry PT3, I don't have time to have a look now.

  7. Romain GROSJEANHaas12:21:120:13

    EngineerYeah,

    Romain GROSJEANif you've got any suggestion or not, big, big, big, big, big on the steer.

  8. Robert KUBICAWilliams12:30:540:10

    Robert KUBICAI didn't know he was behind he just overtook me

  9. Sergio PEREZRacing Point12:32:000:09

    EngineerCheck if we have rear left puncture. We may have rear left puncture.

  10. Pierre GASLYRed Bull12:33:080:01

    Audio only, no transcript

  11. Nico HULKENBERGRenault12:33:090:09

    Nico HULKENBERGWe'll bail out of this, the track position was really sh**

    EngineerLook

    Nico HULKENBERGat people coming by and driving at us, he's going slow

  12. Charles LECLERCFerrari12:39:230:19

    Charles LECLERCWhere's the cars behind? Where's the other cars behind pushing?

    EngineerSo behind pushing they are on the main straight so we have a good gap there. Cars behind it's Albon, Gasly and Ricciardo all in an outlap.

  13. Daniel RICCIARDORenault12:40:070:12

    Daniel RICCIARDOJust when I left the pin exit, had a bit of a cut in power, well, seems OK now.

    EngineerOK, understood.

  14. Daniel RICCIARDORenault12:42:180:08

    Daniel RICCIARDOYep understood. Yeah quite a lot of understeer.

  15. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso12:46:180:01

    Audio only, no transcript

  16. Daniel RICCIARDORenault12:46:190:01

    Audio only, no transcript

  17. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso12:46:200:35

    Engineercopy that yeah

    Daniil KVYATi locked up some uh with the front wheels into one and uh

    Engineera

    Daniil KVYATbig understeer still through six copy

    Engineerdonny do you think real support was any better

    Daniil KVYATuh perhaps yeah given how the state of the tire was it's not bad but yeah the understeer was quite big there in turn six that's my main concern but the rest of the lab uh maybe it wasn't bad

    Engineercopy that box box down in box

  18. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas12:50:580:21

    Kevin MAGNUSSENIs my front right sensor working?

    EngineerIt looks like it's not working, so it should be fine. It was okay here in the garage, now it's not working, just sensor. It's front left I think, but anyway, yep, it's okay, they're all okay.

  19. Carlos SAINZMcLaren12:56:340:20

    EngineerLooks like the places to find time are where there's tailwind, so turn 4 exit, turn 8 braking and turn 13 are the key places to try and find time.

    Carlos SAINZYeah it was not a very good lap, quite a lot of traffic in the second sector.

  20. Lance STROLLRacing Point12:57:140:12

    Lance STROLLI'm

    Engineerjust

    Lance STROLLgoing to go really slow for two laps. Is that okay for the pack?

    EngineerYeah, that's fine for the pack. Verstappen behind, flying left.

  21. Daniel RICCIARDORenault12:59:320:13

    Daniel RICCIARDOI suffered quite a lot with understeer, but Saxton's still quite weak but still able to rotate the car in the low speed.

  22. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes13:02:320:18

    EngineerBit of a messy lap there, what were you thinking about balance?

    Valtteri BOTTASYeah, the car was a lot more oversteery with that setup, so that's why it was quite messy. Copy, thank you.