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Team radio transcript

British Grand Prix 2019: Practice 3 team radio

38 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the British Grand Prix 2019, across 15 drivers. 37 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 9.

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  2. George RUSSELLWilliams

    Engineer: It's potentially level two right now, level two.

  3. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Reminder, we have the same brakes as yesterday for now.

    Alexander ALBON: Copy.

  4. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Alexander ALBON: Just a little bit of... yup, it's coming down.

    Engineer: Copy that.

  5. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Engineer: Okay, that's Leclerc in front of you also going out on intermediate

  6. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, brakes were good, yeah you can see there's like a light film of water on top of the track, I could see Leclerc's

    Engineer: tyre, like tyre tracks behind

    Daniel RICCIARDO: him, so it would certainly be slick on a dry

    Engineer: tyre.

  7. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: Could we have an Aero P4 5th gear cruise at the exit of 14 please?

  8. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: Just a reminder for this tarmac, it can be quite slippery and difficult to get the tyres to work.

  9. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: OK Lewis, just be mindful this new tarmac may be slippy in places.

  10. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Yeah, so if you want to just get a balance check just in case we have anything like this in calling

  11. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: I

    Lewis HAMILTON: think it's something you probably just need to get out on the slicks

  12. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: I'm about to complete the test item straight away, so it will be strat 8. And remember, overtake push out of 5.

  13. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: The

    Valtteri BOTTAS: tyres are getting cappered so...

    Engineer: Copy, Sir Lewis is boxing for the dry tyre. Suggesting to box at the end of this lap. Copy.

  14. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: Do I have the flap for inter or? Inter

  15. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Engineer: How is the condition Danny?

    Daniil KVYAT: It's pretty dry, so very light rain. Box, box. It's mainly raining here in the last part of the chicane.

  16. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Just think about consecutive laps, you have strap 14 available if you need to use it.

  17. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: The rears are very on the cold side, so use the brake adjuster rearward which you have and just do what you can to warm the rears.

  18. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: How bad is that oscillation?

    Engineer: Out of turn 8, turn 9 It's definitely requiring 7th gear there I'll feed back any thoughts Lamy has

    Lewis HAMILTON: So that's nice, not damaging the engine

    Engineer: That's a no issue scene at the moment Is

    Lewis HAMILTON: anyone else on the lap?

    Engineer: So Bound 3 is just under 27.5

  19. Pierre GASLYRed Bull

    Pierre GASLY: I can hear a strange noise, a strange noise when I'm off throttle from the turbo, from the engine.

  20. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: What the ****?

    Engineer: Copy that.

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I got the report.

    Engineer: OK, let's go recharge on, and let's try again next lap.

  21. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: Suggest brake 3 for front locking.

  22. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: And don't drop too much temp.

  23. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: How's that pace?

    Engineer: So it was three purples, Leclerc's just put in a purple first sector.

  24. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: And we're currently in P6. We're the quickest of the medium runners.

  25. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: OK, that'll be P2, a couple of tenths behind Bottas and a purple sector 3. We can box for a little bit more turnaround time in the garage, or one more lap, up to you. Yeah, let me know what you want to know. You want to box? Yeah, up to you if you want another lap, or if you're happy with the balance, just getting laps on the board, we can stay out at...

    Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm happy with the balance.

    Engineer: OK, stay out for one... One lap then, yep. Yep, one more lap, at least start one more lap.

  26. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: They stay in the middle, honestly.

    Engineer: OK, copy that.

  27. George RUSSELLWilliams

    Engineer: Same

    George RUSSELL: thing's happened again.

    Engineer: Not

    George RUSSELL: sure what happened there. Copy, alright, steady on the way in. Very odd, it's just reselected the gear.

    Engineer: Okay, just stuck in the box anyway.

  28. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: So Vettel behind has just finished his push, so you're in sync with Vettel behind.

  29. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: And Lewis just done a 26-1 in strut two.

  30. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Instead of doing the high fuel, do you think we can stop, go like plus 4, plus 5, front wing and go again?

    Engineer: Come back to you. OK, so stop in front of the garage and let me know the adjustment.

    Charles LECLERC: Plus 4.

    Engineer: Copy.

  31. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: Found some time sector 2 and 3. So currently P4 Leclerc first with 25.9 and Vettel also 25.9.

  32. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: So there's P3 at the moment, look like still P1, Vettel P2, both of those look like they've gone up on PU.

  33. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, the cars not got a lot more to give

  34. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: There will be a quick turnaround, so we need to be ready to go as soon as possible.

  35. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, you didn't tell me about Magnussen there. Got traffic with him.

  36. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: So, we need to learn first gear, please learn first gear, you're going to the grid to do a start, cool the car as much as you can.

  37. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay, Carlos, so we'll stay out for the launch. If possible, we'd like to push turn 15 to try the left-hand side toggle again. Push turn 15 and try the left-hand side toggle. And then for the launch, it'll be the new style long bike point find, three burnouts and a second gear launch from the left-hand side.

  38. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: And you stop in front of Sébastien, stop in front of Sébastien. Yeah, I

    Charles LECLERC: couldn't push, step was too slow.

    Engineer: Copy, understood.

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