Brazilian Grand Prix 2019: Practice 1 team radio
47 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Brazilian Grand Prix 2019, across 17 drivers. Carlos SAINZ had the most, with 11.
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
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 11 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And radio check.
Charles LECLERC: Radio check, okay.
Engineer: Torque 1, I'm modus long, for Bernhards
Kimi RAIKKONEN: This is for what?
Engineer: Yes, AFM.
Engineer: I'm not 100% happy with the throttle
Romain GROSJEAN: application and the torque delivery, I'm very low.
Engineer: suggest recharge on for the first part of the outlap
Engineer: So caution, we see loss of rear load from the rear wing, so stop in the box we're going to remove trip strips and then we're going to go for a start.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, very poor drivability in second gear. Initial throttle.
Engineer: Copy, are you happy to stay out?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, for the moment.
Engineer: Copy, stay out.
Engineer: Let us know how far from inters you think it is. I
Valtteri BOTTAS: think it's pretty close to being inter.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Ok Carlos, suggest to open one more lap, open one more lap and box at the end of the next lap, don't complete the next lap Err,
Carlos SAINZ: why?
Engineer: Err, to preserve the tyres so we can do the test with good tyres
Carlos SAINZ: Okay, box copy
Engineer: box this lap
Carlos SAINZ: Are we gonna remove those pitots?
Engineer: Yes, box the slap and we'll get that cleaned up
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I wanted to stay out because it's nearly inters right now.
Engineer: Copy. So I would go.
Carlos SAINZ: I didn't see the bridge light because of the uphill, can you just double check I wasn't called?
Engineer: Oh yeah, you weren't called. Carlos, is that that you can't see the light or you just missed it? Missed it. Copy.
Engineer: Track clear, pink strat 12, pink strat 12.
Engineer: Pull up outside the garage Checo, so pull up outside the garage, just caution, slow low and be slippery.
Lance STROLL: The track's wet but there's no real puddles. Looks like it's drying up.
Engineer: Copy that Lance. I think we'll just wait for it to dry a bit more.
Engineer: It will be mode race for last corner, mode race.
Charles LECLERC: Lux, Lux.
Engineer: Let me know if it's for inters.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, it's for inters.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Tyre shouldn't be too bad to get going, tyre shouldn't be too bad to get going The low limit is minus 50 at the front, low limit is minus 50 at the front For info we've got two cars on inter
Carlos SAINZ: I think I'm going to cool down one lap and go again. I'm learning a bit. Ok,
Engineer: don't damage the tyre too much Carlos, other cars are boxing for inters now.
Carlos SAINZ: Copy, is my lap time competitive?
Engineer: Your P2 Carlos, only four cars have set laps. So Leclerc has gone out on inters, that's the car behind you.
Carlos SAINZ: The tyre state looks good, but how far away am I from P1?
Engineer: One second Carlos, nine tenths.
Engineer: And Lando, how's the track conditions now? It's getting better, I'd
Lando NORRIS: say it's pretty much in to us.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: And Lando we suggest we will box this lap, would you like to box this lap?
Engineer: It's clearly internal. It's clearly personal.
Engineer: Dani, we think it's inter now, so box, box. I
Daniil KVYAT: just wanted one more lap for reference.
Engineer: Dani, I understand your comment, but I didn't want to destroy the tyre. So we are going out on inter soon.
Daniil KVYAT: OK.
Engineer: Okay copy box copy box for new interest
Nico HULKENBERG: Good to box. It's we're using the front right tire quite a lot now Starting to open up a little bit
Engineer: Couple that Niko
Engineer: And are you happy to go fast, low fast? I could use scenario 9 and SOC 13 if so.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK.
Engineer: Nico felt we were damaging the front right.
Engineer: Carlos, I think most of the time is middle sector, I don't have corner specific. You can go to lower SOC, we've recalibrated the dash. So suggest SOC 4, SOC 4.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, I feel we're starting to damage a little bit the tyres.
Engineer: OK, understood, so if you're happy with that we could box after this. Yep,
Daniel RICCIARDO: let's box.
Engineer: OK, Kevin, what do you think? Do you have a feel, or I'll do one more. The
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: tires are still good.
Engineer: OK.
Carlos SAINZ: How is the weather looking for P2?
Engineer: Lower chance of rain in FP2 than P1, lower chance of rain in P2 for one, difficult to be specific.
Engineer: There's a few dry
Nicholas LATIFI: patches starting to form.
Engineer: Okay Kimmy, can we have break Compensation 7 please?
Engineer: V3, we think we are still seeing some stall even on pit exit, keep you updated.
Engineer: Watch the kerb exit 13, watch the kerb exit 13.
Engineer: If you're happy with that, we can box. Sorry,
Valtteri BOTTAS: just taking a stint.
Engineer: Over.
Engineer: DRS has been enabled.
Engineer: was extremely
Nicholas LATIFI: bad.
Engineer: Copy that. So we'll box this lap, I don't think we're learning anything in these conditions so we can come through and do a practice start.
Alexander ALBON: It's going to restock soon, I don't know if you want to think about it?
Engineer: OK, copy, understood.
Alexander ALBON: It's not 6 yet.
Engineer: OK copy, but will it be in 8 minutes time?
Alexander ALBON: Yes, I
Engineer: think so.
Alexander ALBON: Basically sector 2 from turns 4 to turn 8 is dry, and then it's just dry. It's just a bit wet in the low slicks corners.
Engineer: OK copy. I'm happy then Alex if we come in and prepare for slicks. So I'm happy then if we box, Alex box.
Engineer: So a few cars ahead are left on the soft tyre, on the medium, and work the brakes where you can.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think it's too slippery.
Carlos SAINZ: It's raining a bit, I think.
Engineer: Copy, Carlos. There's nothing on the radar.
Engineer: Yep, copy.
Alexander ALBON: Sorry, the brakes just went, they just weren't really caught.
Engineer: Yeah understood mate, you can go P0 when you're ready, there's still 10 cars on track, Grosjean will be the last car.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, it's stupid, but let's try to warm up the tyres one lap.
Engineer: Copy, you can warm up now, we have one push available. For
Daniil KVYAT: me it's too late and pointless, so I would say...
Engineer: Red flag, red flag, follow the reference. And charge on, charge on. Albon stopped after turn 12.
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