Belgian Grand Prix 2019: Practice 2 team radio
30 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Belgian Grand Prix 2019, across 13 drivers. Nico HULKENBERG 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
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, straight out, track is clear, so no DRS to turn 4, no DRS between 4 and 5.
George RUSSELL: Roger.
Engineer: Radio check, turn 3. Copy, turn 3.
Engineer: tyre wise we probably need another 10 on the front and about seven on the rear currently just for a second
Engineer: 0.5 quicker, middle and third sector you're a lot quicker, first sector you're slower, I don't know if it's just the straight.
Engineer: Okay, so we can get our front brakes back up to temps, warm up the front brakes, tire temps look okay, just try and keep the fronts, and we'll do the K1 hold out of turn four this lap, we'll do K1 hold out of turn four, remember mode push, mode push.
Engineer: For reference we're aiming for the lower range of tyre temperature compared to the last run of the morning.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I've lost the rear antenna 8. Can you check the engine braking? I feel like it's doing some strange... It's not working properly. As soon as I try to use more...
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, misfire at the last corner
Engineer: Okay, understood, we're on it now
Engineer: We need to improve APEX speed, turn 7 and exit last corner, the rest is fine.
Charles LECLERC: Braking for 7.
Engineer: APEX speed, mid-corner speed.
Engineer: If possible you can help Lando out of turn 15 again gap now five seconds cars behind Lando are slow
Engineer: So currently P2, 2 tenths to Leclerc P1
Lewis HAMILTON: Clever double cool
Engineer: Yeah copy, it will eat into mileage but should be OK at the moment You
Lewis HAMILTON: said mileage, wasn't a problem mate
Engineer: Yeah it depends if you want to use the laps for timelapse or just cool down laps We've got Kyle starting laps now You were purple in the middle sector on that one 6 tenths down to Leclerc in sector 1, just half a tenth in sector 3
Max VERSTAPPEN: Um, just before I start...
Max VERSTAPPEN: Just before I started braking for the last chicane I heard something in the engine turn off so the last chicane drivability was not good and also out of the corner the power release was not there.
Engineer: Understood, thanks Max. OK we understand the issue, it did clear itself so all good. OK that was a couple of hundreds behind Leclerc, we are 6 tenths down in sector 1 you were purple, 6 tenths quicker than him in sector 2 and we are amongst the quickest in sector 3.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: left front tyre pressure is not working copy,
Engineer: copy, front left not working
Engineer: It is very difficult to hear you. 10
Alexander ALBON: -9.
Engineer: That is better.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, the traffic was ******.
Engineer: Yeah, it was not great here. Okay, we can have one more go. Keep telling me where the traffic is. Yeah, yeah, there is no one behind. All okay.
Pierre GASLY: Do you think we could do two cool down because for me the rears are too hot
Engineer: Yes, no problem. We can try no problem Okay,
Pierre GASLY: let's do this
Engineer: Do you want another lap, Lance?
Lance STROLL: No, the tires are gone.
Engineer: Copy that. Box this lap, box this lap.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Um, GP, this makes no sense, I'm so slow and the road is straight.
Engineer: OK, let's box. Let's box.
Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, it doesn't feel good. I can't get to the 50s with my feeling at the moment.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Check out, there's not a lot of deg, but your pace has been good in the first few laps. We're happy with the tyres, just you can manage in high speed if you feel performance drop.
Engineer: Max on the exit of turn one, can you press and hold the overtake button for four seconds please?
Engineer: OK Niko, we're going to box for the mediums now, we're going to come down one turn on the front wing, do you think that's OK, or would you like more or less?
Nico HULKENBERG: We haven't spoken to her.
Engineer: 0.3% Niko, sorry, he's coming down 0.3%.
Alexander ALBON: are most people doing sustainable now?
Engineer: Yes, everyone high fuel. Everyone high fuel.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, we are very slow. I can tell you now.
Engineer: It
Carlos SAINZ: feels like I've lost a lot of aerobalance.
Engineer: Carlos, we're looking. Aero data looks OK. Aero OK?
Carlos SAINZ: OK, box 4, 3 turns up, off-flap. See if something changes. We are too slow like this.
Engineer: Copy.
Sergio PEREZ: What is the pace like?
Engineer: Chaco, pace generally has been good. Pace generally good.
Engineer: Sorry for overrunning there Nico, basically our pace on the medium does look better compared to our pace on the soft.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, it's burning quite a bit, Brad.
Engineer: Copy that, Lance. We may need to get you out, I don't know. We'll have a look, see what they can see. They can't see anything, we'll have to get you out, get your seat out, I should think.
Carlos SAINZ: How's the pace?
Engineer: Carlos, let's have scenario six. That's attack defense mode. Scenario six. Pace is okay. Pace is okay.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, you know, I'm very excited.
Engineer: Virtual Safety Car, Virtual Safety Car, Positive on Dash, Positive on Dash, Virtual Safety Car, Positive on Dash.
Charles LECLERC: It's the same thing as I said in the last race, with a virtual safety car, when you are very slow, the Delta updates very very slowly.
Engineer: Yeah, they are slow to update and it's difficult to...
Charles LECLERC: I'll explain more in the carriage. We are done for FU2?
Engineer: Yes we are, I think, we confirm, stop on the max was good.
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