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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 4 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Carlos SAINZ: Yep.
Engineer: And radio check into turn three.
Carlos SAINZ: Yep, radio's fine.
Engineer: Yeah, loud and clear for me.
Engineer: Okay, so two burnouts with the burnout button and start in first gear, please
George RUSSELL: The right side of my seat one of the belts is not very comfortable one of the extraction belts Check
Engineer: that
Engineer: Constant speed 140, 3rd gear in 25
Engineer: Okay, so after turn 9, can we do an aero cruise please?
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.
Nicholas LATIFI: I almost just hit the groundhog.
Engineer: Okay, Nick here, boxing, driving through the pit lane to do a start.
Engineer: Okay,
Nicholas LATIFI: I have
Engineer: to
Nicholas LATIFI: abort the lap, my one in the runoff is turning.
Engineer: Okay, Nicholas, just need a couple of good stops for brake energy.
Engineer: Okay, we can go mode push mode push to get max temp building
Max VERSTAPPEN: The track is insanely dirty.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Minimum speed in turn six is an immediate place to improve.
Engineer: P1, it's a couple of tenths in the first two sectors, just eight hundredths in the final
Engineer: Okay Lucy, that's identical time to Valtrice, both P1.
Engineer: Let's keep an eye out for Bettel, not sure what he's up to, six and a half seconds behind.
Engineer: We need to get going Alex Alex we need to go We need to go for timings Ok go now, go around him
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.
Engineer: And tyres might be slightly cool for the first time around.
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.
Pierre GASLY: I lock the rear completely unbraking.
Engineer: Understood.
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.
Engineer: Antonio, all OK?
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, I'm at the wall. I touched the wall.
Engineer: Copy, Antonio.
Engineer: Virtual safety car, virtual safety car, respect your delta. Okay, so think about keeping these tyres up to temperature.
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.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: It's pulling to the left a little bit, under braking.
Engineer: Understood, we'll investigate.
Engineer: Okay, Hamilton five behind this was the last push we don't have a chance. No, I mean I need to notice information
Engineer: Both cars struggling to get the tyres working again by the look of it.
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
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.
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.
Engineer: and 160 out of 9, 160
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lewis HAMILTON: It feels really tight to get into our box with the Ferraris there, it's still too close to the Ferraris.
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
Daniil KVYAT: Tell him to let me by.
Romain GROSJEAN: Guys the brake pedal is going.
Engineer: Okay, we're looking at it.
Engineer: And how are the tires?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, they're pretty stable, pretty stable for now.
Engineer: Okay, copy that.
Engineer: a lot of misfiring.
Engineer: so we lost a few pressure
George RUSSELL: The last mate of traction is very poor.
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
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.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the hairpin is not very smooth anymore, drivability wise. I think we have to go back.
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