British Grand Prix 2019: Qualifying team radio
39 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the British Grand Prix 2019, across 12 drivers. 32 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 10.
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 · 10 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
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Max VERSTAPPEN: It's still having lag, man. Unbelievable.
Engineer: Ok, still everyone in face, no one pushing, we are currently P4
Engineer: engine 11, engine 11, position 8, okay that lap currently put you P3, same lap time as Norris, slightly ahead of you Vettel, half a tenth behind and Leclerc P1 25.6
Engineer: So your P1, Leclerc P2, just a tenth behind. Leclerc on the medium tyre, he's going purple this lap.
Engineer: You can do one more lap for learning, we think you're safe with that time.
Engineer: OK, update on flap angle, in case we are going again. Pretty happy actually. OK, we are going with soft. Yeah, I don't think we have to. OK, it's monitoring it. So, flap angle will go up a click between the two compounds. Yeah, I'm with you. So, main struggle has been a bit of snap in three, a bit of understeer in six, a bit of snap into seven, and then a bit of understeer in the higher speed to finish the lap. OK, copy.
Engineer: Carlos, we're safe, we're safe. We can box this lap. Cool the car, turn 15.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, I guess that's it. It felt like it was really poor, so...
Engineer: Yeah, down in P17.
Lewis HAMILTON: The last lap felt like it was better, but it was slower, so let me know where it is slower, is it slower because I'm not
Engineer: braking
Lewis HAMILTON: late enough, deep enough? OK, I'll have a look.
Engineer: Track temp has dropped 3 degrees.
Engineer: Let's get some temperature in these tyres.
Engineer: You are down sector one and two by four hundredths to Valtteri.
Engineer: I think trying to run through corners any closer than that to the current front is going to be a problem. You were 3.5 at the start of the lap.
Engineer: Okay, so just look out for these sides likely race start set
Engineer: Good work on the tires, good work on brakes and tires, same again, front left is the limitation
Engineer: I
Romain GROSJEAN: really don't understand what's going on, it's not the same tires.
Engineer: Okay Nico, we are currently P8 and I think we're safe.
Engineer: Carlos, we've finished P13, P13
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, and I was surprised
Engineer: OK Nicky, question is, should we go for a, I think we should go for a used tyre run in case of the rain appearing unexpectedly.
Engineer: Ok Antonio, we are P11, P11, and box this left, box, box. Copy. How much from P10? It's about a tenth to Alban, Alban is P10, and basically a tenth as well to her comeback, they are quite close. Yeah, so Remy is taking the last spawn, stupid. The Kimi is P12, one behind.
Valtteri BOTTAS: which way we're going.
Engineer: Yep, we'll get back to you. And flip around so we don't lose bite.
Engineer: So our main losses were 3-4 and turn 16.
Engineer: OK, that puts you P3 for the moment. Leclerc still set a time. OK, he has set a time, he's a tenth behind you. Still P3, a tenth behind Hamilton and four tenths behind Bottas. How's the balance?
Max VERSTAPPEN: There's something weird going on in turn 6, a lot of understeer, and the last corner is 17.
Engineer: OK, front wing wise?
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think we can go two clicks more. Understood.
Engineer: Yeah, I did quite a big mistake in the last corner. I tried something.
Engineer: So two and a half tenths to Valtteri, you are faster in sectors one and three, it's just that middle sector How
Lewis HAMILTON: much was I down in the middle sector?
Engineer: Just over three tenths to Valtteri
Lewis HAMILTON: That's just too deep into six
Engineer: Copy, too deep six
Engineer: We think Albon's gonna do another lap. Looks like they're doing fast slow fast and Norris is just in front of Albon So we think the two cars in front of you are doing fast slow fast
Engineer: We are currently on the 25 seconds margin, Max. 25 seconds margin. You're the last car on the train.
Engineer: Right, so that's pole position, Valtteri. Well done. Yes! We just needed that. Oh yeah!
Engineer: That's close Lewis, real close mate, just six thousandths, so P2 at the moment. OK, so that's the front row. That
Lewis HAMILTON: was P2, Q2 did not help.
Engineer: So, positions both as P1, 25.0, Hamilton P2 Ahhhh, I gave everything, the lap was good, the lap was very good, I'm very happy about the lap It was just not enough, ah! Stay negative, stay negative, you did a really good job
Max VERSTAPPEN: Hard luck, Max. Massive luck.
Engineer: Hard luck, mate. That is a fantastic effort. P4, tenths behind Leclerc, two tenths behind the Mercs. Gasly P5, you're three tenths ahead of him. And Sebastian P6, half a second ahead of him. Oh, man. This is so disappointing.
Max VERSTAPPEN: But anyway, after the difficulties we've had so far, it's not a bad falling.
Engineer: Not at all. Not at all. Good job. Yeah, good job, Max. With what you got, you got the most out of it. So we're going to have a competitive race from there. Well done.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, exactly. We can definitely race from here.
Engineer: and P6, CELANSTON P6 ok
Sebastian VETTEL: copy well I don't know what to say really, I just didn't want to come I struggled with the rear actually more than the front ok
Engineer: understood BNSF there will be days which are better than today, don't worry keep pushing
Sebastian VETTEL: thank you, thank you all
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