Belgian Grand Prix 2019: Race team radio
59 radio messages were recorded during race at the Belgian Grand Prix 2019, across 17 drivers. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 13.
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 · 13 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 7 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 5 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: So we'll have it at 25 seconds until green light. A
Lewis HAMILTON: bit of a delay with power coming in just now.
Engineer: Yeah, nothing to be worried about Lewis, all to be expected from LAMY.
Engineer: So just remember your start position is different to free practice.
Engineer: Boat six boost on. Boat six boost on.
Engineer: Charles Dufay, copy, we need mode warm-up, mode warm-up, and brake balance minus 6.
Engineer: Niko, I'm going to come up three turns, that's 0.6 of a percent. OK, that's... Yep, why not? That's what I was thinking. Niko, it's Dave. The last start you did, the clutch drop was 34%. OK, Niko, remember, no burnouts. We'd like another start, please, and then you're going to the grid.
Engineer: I just need a lift to cancel DARS.
George RUSSELL: got quite a lot of mid to exit, understeer everywhere, entry phase neutral
Alexander ALBON: My seat feels quite warm, I don't know if that's normal.
Engineer: Copy, we'll have a look.
Lewis HAMILTON: You're saying we've kept the front tail? Yep, yep, yep, we've kept that, yes we have. OK.
Engineer: Valtteri's gone up one hole on front wing, so at the moment we're plus one and a half compared to him.
Lewis HAMILTON: So how far down is VALTRII to me?
Engineer: One and a half It's just a question whether you want to take out a little bit of front wing or whether you want to just Just introduce that diff entry, a bit diff high speed earlier
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm open to potentially high fall
Engineer: So we'll fire up the engine, there will be the turbo engagement, and we do a bite point. OK, no problems, I thought I understood for a moment that I had to do a bite point before the real start, so I will only do it here. Yes, that is correct, so mode formation, pit limiter off, we fire up the engine, turbo engagement, and then you do the bite point, and that's it, then everything is normal.
Engineer: So, formation lap procedures, and that's 5 minutes. Gearbox should remain synced whilst we're on the grid. Once we've fired up, pit lane speed limiter on please, starting by a pump find once the car is on the ground. Carry out your dummy grid launch to 80 kph, do expect some wheelspin, so don't be alarmed if you get that. Then into mode 12, and as and when you can during this formation lap between 1st and 2nd gears for clutch learning.
Engineer: Okay Carlos, tyre information, the medium starters are Russell, Albon, Giovinazzi, Kivat and Kubica, all other cars are on soft. Starting in front of me, only Russell. That's correct, just Russell ahead on medium. And also Carlos, Stroll alongside you is on soft.
Engineer: Has
Lewis HAMILTON: the temperature come up, Bono, any more?
Engineer: No, not a lot. The sun's about to disappear behind a cloud.
Carlos SAINZ: I have a lack of power in recharge
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Some ****** hit me completely,
Engineer: ****** these
Kimi RAIKKONEN: people
Engineer: Ok, tyres ok, tyres ok I think he hit me again, ******
Kimi RAIKKONEN: same guy
Engineer: Ok, all your tyres ok?
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Something is not right We
Engineer: are checking Ok Kimi, safety car, safety car, mode SC
Engineer: Ok Kimi, so your right hand side floor is quite badly damaged?
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, I have zero grip on the rear.
Engineer: Yeah, I can see. Stand by.
Engineer: Ok Carlos, box this lap, box this lap, stop in front of Lando's garage.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, safety car will be extended, safety car will be extended, there is signs stopped in the last corner.
Engineer: So safety guard will be in this lap as front callipers are still hot.
Engineer: Here the head is the first cow on medium, so if we get him, we are in a strong position.
Engineer: I'll be down one second behind.
Engineer: You can use energy here. You can use energy here. The tyre will be robust
Engineer: We think Rears will be more an issue than the Front, so Defy Speed 6, we can shift B-Balt forward.
Engineer: Keep watching your battery on the left hand side get that back up try again
Engineer: You are target plus two, target plus two.
Engineer: There's a tailwind in Turn 5, we've seen other cars struggle there, so just be careful.
Engineer: And Nico, the safety car window is open.
Engineer: Okay Lando your last lap was four tenths quicker than Grosjean who's still the car behind but four tenths slower than Perez. The gap to him is 5.9 at the moment. Gasly is also through on Magnussen but Magnussen is holding up a large group of cars.
Engineer: And multifunction position BM when you can, position BM when you can.
Lewis HAMILTON: Can't get much closer guys.
Engineer: OK copy Lewis, we'll look at options.
Engineer: So Leclerc ahead 48.9, Vettel 49.2, Hamilton 49.3.
Engineer: we're currently thinking target plus three to plus five
Engineer: You are 19 seconds behind Charles, leading the race.
Engineer: So Magnusson ahead of you is struggling on his used softs
Engineer: And look after your tyres, you are 4 seconds in front of Hamilton. And Charles is staying out. Charles lap time 49.2. And Hamilton 49.2.
Engineer: Gap to Hamilton behind, 4.3.
Engineer: and you will go out behind Sebastian everything will be fine for the end of the race and box now box
Engineer: So this is a genuine P5 at the moment, genuine P5. Grosjean is the first car we're really racing who's stopped. He's P10, eight seconds back, so he's four cars behind.
Engineer: So Leclerc 6.5 ahead, last lap for him was a 47.1.
Sergio PEREZ: The engine in low gears has no power.
Engineer: So gap to Sebastian behind 2 seconds, and behind him Hamilton, and Hamilton is at 4.1 seconds from us.
Engineer: Suggest diff exit 7, that's at 2 o'clock on the multifunction.
Engineer: You're currently P8 understood.
Daniel RICCIARDO: We're gonna hack the dog.
Engineer: Let's keep pushing mate
Sebastian VETTEL: What's the pace of Bottas?
Engineer: Bottas lap time 47.3
Engineer: So Vettel end of race forecasting. It will finish four seconds behind. I'll keep your date with these times
Engineer: Gap to Leclerc, 6.7 last lap, 47.2
Lando NORRIS: I just had a weird lock-up, just double-check everything, I think I had
Engineer: a
Lando NORRIS: lock-up, it just turned.
Engineer: Yep, OK, understood, we're checking now, OK Lando, just be careful of lateral loads. Something's happened, are you sure, it feels understeery in the left-handers. OK, we'll check further now, we'll check further. We can't see anything immediately wrong at the moment, just remember what we discussed about the wear, so just be careful of that tyre, be careful of that tyre.
Engineer: Be really careful with the front right, just remember what happened in P2, no need to push it.
Romain GROSJEAN: Can I retire the car?
Engineer: No, we will finish the race.
Lando NORRIS: I'm losing power. I'm losing power. It's going okay.
Engineer: Keep going safety cut Keep going. Keep going for now. I can't it's broken.
Lando NORRIS: It's broken Anti-stall. It's off
Engineer: Well done there, P2, very close, so close.
Lewis HAMILTON: Maybe one more lap and we would have had it.
Engineer: I think so mate, even without that yellow it was going to be close.
Lewis HAMILTON: Just left it a little bit too late for that stop.
Engineer: Yeah, he came out so far behind him. Yeah, there it is James, completely understood. Well done mate, good effort.
Lewis HAMILTON: Well done lad.
Engineer: fail 84
Engineer: Excellent work Alex, top stuff mate. P5, P5, well done mate.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah thanks guys, that was a very good job to be honest. I struggled already at the start but anyway, thank you.
Engineer: Well done Alex, that was a really strong dive today, really very good, P5 from the back of the grid. Great start, well done.
Engineer: Checo, well done, great job and Norris had an issue there so you picked up P6 at the end there, Norris had an issue so you picked up P6, really good job, great overtakes, well done.
Sergio PEREZ: Good job guys, we need it, it's been a long time for points so well done guys, let's keep it up for a strong second half.
Engineer: Good job Checo, well done.
Engineer: Close the lap and back from the pit lane, back from the pit lane, P7, P7 Dani, good job, fantastic Yes, good job
Daniil KVYAT: guys This, I f***ing love it
Engineer: It was a very good race Dani
Daniil KVYAT: Grazie a tutti, grandissimi, bravi, bravi, bravi, bravi Bravi, why you wanted me to push on last lap, you wanted the fastest lap or something? It's not, you know It's not like we have an airplane
Engineer: Great job Niko, P8, remember you're going in the pit lane the wrong way after turn 1, great job Niko, well done mate. Good
Nico HULKENBERG: job guys, good call on the strategy, not a bad yield for such a tough weekend.
Engineer: Ok Pierre, so Danny got P7, it worked out a little bit better for him. Luckily I won the race, P2 with Hamilton, both as P3. You should be happy, you've done a very good job today Pierre, very good job, you should be proud.
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