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Team radio transcript

Canadian Grand Prix 2019: Practice 3 team radio

33 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Canadian Grand Prix 2019, across 15 drivers. 25 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 5.

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. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  2. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  3. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  4. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  5. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  6. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  7. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  8. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Look after the tires in the piton tree, sleepy, slippery piton tree.

  9. Robert KUBICAWilliams

    Engineer: Okay, we just need a couple of good stops to put some temperature into the brakes.

  10. Robert KUBICAWilliams

    Engineer: Okay, we just need a couple of good stops to put some temperature into the brakes.

  11. Robert KUBICAWilliams

    Engineer: We'll go for a practice start, end of pit lane, 37% clutch target.

  12. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: OK, Reichenen coming through now. So your turn 3, 4 and 6, 7 was really good mate, really good.

    Romain GROSJEAN: Yeah, it felt good.

  13. Lance STROLLRacing Point

    Engineer: We've got a hydraulic leak looks like a hydraulic leak

  14. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Romain GROSJEAN: Man, the delta speed is far too big in that region to be here

    Engineer: Okay, understood. Okay, so the next push car is Bottas Yeah,

    Romain GROSJEAN: far behind. It's a blind corner. They can't drive that slow in that part Bottas,

    Engineer: far

    Romain GROSJEAN: behind. Watch for Bottas, close behind now, two seconds back

  15. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Where am I losing time? Breaking very last corner, straight line breaking very last corner and still a little bit exit turn 4.

  16. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: We need to be careful. Every time going out of the box I have the tarmac of the box on the tires. It's so bad.

  17. Lance STROLLRacing Point

    Engineer: I got a PU tilt. Got

    Lance STROLL: no more power.

    Engineer: Box, box, box, box. Do not change gear. Do not pull the clutch. Just stop the car. Stop the car. Do not pull. We've got a hydraulic leak. Looks like a hydraulic leak.

  18. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: You're going to need to take the curve when I come in, I went over the sausage curve

    Engineer: OK, understood

  19. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, so, yep, I think as the lap went on, I lost a little bit of rear. That first time lap, rear wasn't quite there to start.

  20. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  21. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: Good lap mate, good lap. OK, this is your end lap. Check

    Romain GROSJEAN: the rear right.

    Engineer: OK, will do. Use the in button please for the in lap.

  22. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: Okay, there's an animal running around in the B4-10-6, in the middle of the track. Okay, copy that. I don't know what they're called, but...

  23. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: Okay, there's an animal running around in the B4-10-6 On the middle of the track Okay, copy that I don't know what they're called, but Yeah,

    Engineer: they run across, a beaver running across the track I was running in the middle of the track, but not the first

  24. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Carlos, a lot of the time is in 8-9, I think you had traffic there?

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah

  25. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Just up 300 Sector 2, down 2.5 Sector 3

  26. Sergio PEREZRacing Point

    Engineer: Choco Tyre is on the hot side

  27. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Tire prep. Tires a bit ready.

  28. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Kevin MAGNUSSEN: That temperature target was wrong.

    Engineer: Understood.

  29. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: So Ricciardo five behind pushing just reset your funk

  30. Antonio GIOVINAZZIAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: So turn 10 was okay. Last lap, you were just missing turns 6 and 7.

    Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, I found traffic. Yeah, copy

    Engineer: that.

  31. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: So Valtteri, we're going to stay out and take the flag so we can practice breaking Fulton 1.

    Valtteri BOTTAS: There's no need for that.

    Engineer: Copy.

  32. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, can I stay out and push on the inland?

    Engineer: You can do that.

  33. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: We need to have the board there, when we try to practice, to stop him pushing.

    Engineer: Ok, sorry about that.

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