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Team radio transcript

Canadian Grand Prix 2019: Practice 1 team radio

44 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Canadian Grand Prix 2019, across 17 drivers. 43 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 6.

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. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: Yep.

    Engineer: And radio check into turn three.

    Carlos SAINZ: Yep, radio's fine.

    Engineer: Yeah, loud and clear for me.

  2. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Engineer: Okay, so two burnouts with the burnout button and start in first gear, please

  3. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: The right side of my seat one of the belts is not very comfortable one of the extraction belts Check

    Engineer: that

  4. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Constant speed 140, 3rd gear in 25

  5. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Engineer: Okay, so after turn 9, can we do an aero cruise please?

  6. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: OK Alex, let's wait to plug the car and we have a chat. All OK with the car?

    Alexander ALBON: Yeah, all OK. Quite stiff. I guess the track is very bumpy.

  7. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Nicholas LATIFI: I almost just hit the groundhog.

  8. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: Okay, Nick here, boxing, driving through the pit lane to do a start.

  9. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Engineer: Okay,

    Nicholas LATIFI: I have

    Engineer: to

    Nicholas LATIFI: abort the lap, my one in the runoff is turning.

  10. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Engineer: Okay, Nicholas, just need a couple of good stops for brake energy.

  11. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Okay, we can go mode push mode push to get max temp building

  12. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: The track is insanely dirty.

    Engineer: Copy.

  13. George RUSSELLWilliams

    Engineer: Minimum speed in turn six is an immediate place to improve.

  14. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: P1, it's a couple of tenths in the first two sectors, just eight hundredths in the final

  15. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Okay Lucy, that's identical time to Valtrice, both P1.

  16. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Let's keep an eye out for Bettel, not sure what he's up to, six and a half seconds behind.

  17. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: We need to get going Alex Alex we need to go We need to go for timings Ok go now, go around him

  18. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: I

    Romain GROSJEAN: don't know what I've got on the right tyres but it's vibration.

    Engineer: Okay hopefully it'll clean off we think it could be a little bit of paint from the garage floor.

  19. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: And tyres might be slightly cool for the first time around.

  20. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Some search events out of some corners, so should I use another mode, or...?

    Engineer: Copy, we'll let you know if there's anything we can do. OK, so continue as it is at the moment, we can't do anything, same for both cars.

  21. Pierre GASLYRed Bull

    Pierre GASLY: I lock the rear completely unbraking.

    Engineer: Understood.

  22. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Front right lock up, turn one. Yep. And is the tyre okay? Yeah, I think it's okay. Yep, looks okay from our side.

  23. Antonio GIOVINAZZIAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: Antonio, all OK?

    Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, I'm at the wall. I touched the wall.

    Engineer: Copy, Antonio.

  24. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Engineer: Virtual safety car, virtual safety car, respect your delta. Okay, so think about keeping these tyres up to temperature.

  25. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: OK Nico, most cars are staying out, so it's difficult to predict how long this is going to take.

    Nico HULKENBERG: Yeah, it should be two laps, we'll stay out as well.

    Engineer: Copy.

  26. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: It's pulling to the left a little bit, under braking.

    Engineer: Understood, we'll investigate.

  27. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: Okay, Hamilton five behind this was the last push we don't have a chance. No, I mean I need to notice information

  28. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Both cars struggling to get the tyres working again by the look of it.

  29. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: I've got traffic in the front of the corner

    Engineer: Yep, ok that's cool, that was a good lap up to then, suggest we try one more if you'd like, one more? Yeah,

    Lando NORRIS: one more

  30. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Mode 1 please Max, mode 1 for this next lap. No, can I try just the normal mode? Yep. What was the problem with that Max, out of interest? Yeah, just not fluid. Understood.

  31. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: Do we have some new cables here on the right hand side, because I'm hitting something all the time. I'm sure it hasn't been there before. Okay, I have a look. I mean there's a massive whistle.

  32. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: and 160 out of 9, 160

  33. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  34. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: It feels really tight to get into our box with the Ferraris there, it's still too close to the Ferraris.

  35. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Ehh,

    Carlos SAINZ: box for aero balance change, to optimise the setup

    Engineer: That's ok, we're on max, do you want to drop front wing? No,

    Carlos SAINZ: I wanted to go up, no worries, it's fine

  36. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Daniil KVYAT: Tell him to let me by.

  37. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Romain GROSJEAN: Guys the brake pedal is going.

    Engineer: Okay, we're looking at it.

  38. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Engineer: And how are the tires?

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, they're pretty stable, pretty stable for now.

    Engineer: Okay, copy that.

  39. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: a lot of misfiring.

  40. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: so we lost a few pressure

  41. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: The last mate of traction is very poor.

  42. George RUSSELLWilliams

    Engineer: Mode 10, Mode 10

    George RUSSELL: James, you need

    Engineer: to

    George RUSSELL: speak to me before, you spoke to me right in the braking gender

    Engineer: Copy that, sorry

  43. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: OK, and if possible a start at the end of the pit lane, first gear. OK, straight out please, straight out, we're too hot please, so straight out.

  44. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the hairpin is not very smooth anymore, drivability wise. I think we have to go back.

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