Canadian Grand Prix 2019: Qualifying team radio
41 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Canadian Grand Prix 2019, across 16 drivers. 39 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 5 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: Track first hideous
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I think the track is pretty poor. Yeah, okay,
Engineer: that's okay. Right now you're P1, you're 0.4 quicker than Roman.
George RUSSELL: Anything I need to do with diffs for turn 3, I had a massive moment.
George RUSSELL: No balance changes needed, I could have a lot of push in turn 10
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, yeah, it was quite low, quite low rear grip.
Engineer: It
Daniel RICCIARDO: was still quite slippery.
Alexander ALBON: Car is neutral. Already into turn 1 it's neutral. Turn 2 as well.
Daniel RICCIARDO: You know, I think relatively similar to the morning, so I wouldn't change the
Engineer: watch.
Engineer: Which
Lewis HAMILTON: sectors do I need to improve?
Engineer: Sector 2, Sector 3
Engineer: In terms of sectors, to Vettel, 2 tenths faster in sector 1, half a tenth in sector 2, Vettel nearly half a second faster in sector 3.
Nico HULKENBERG: Why do you release me to such a traffic on sector 1? So we had to go, Russell
Engineer: behind you, remember we're doing a prep lap so we can find a gap.
Engineer: Switch Delta to P16, I'm afraid, check out.
Engineer: Cars not through, Perez, Raikkonen, yourself, Russell behind and Kubica.
Engineer: Keep the aircraft out of the way. Understood, understood.
Engineer: So 18 second gap behind you Inassi, let him bite.
Engineer: all
Lewis HAMILTON: tires the Ferrari's on.
Engineer: Also medium tire so Vettel P1 ULT2 just three hundredths in it.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Unbelievable, so many cars.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Okay mistake the six, okay mistake the six
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I think it's very difficult to get it on the post.
Engineer: Most of the cars are doing first push most are doing first push and people try a second one and then bail
Max VERSTAPPEN: Unbelievable, so many cars, no grip on these rails, unbelievable, and all the chicanes.
Engineer: Copy.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: So, Q2 is over, we are P13
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Ah, so bad, I was improving
Romain GROSJEAN: If...
Engineer: IF!
Romain GROSJEAN: Mate that's
Engineer: our
Romain GROSJEAN: luck, that's our luck It
Engineer: was on for a very good lap mate, that was gonna be a good lap I
Romain GROSJEAN: can't believe it
Engineer: Can't believe
Romain GROSJEAN: my luck mate
Romain GROSJEAN: Sorry boys deserve better today. Let's hope tomorrow is a better day
Max VERSTAPPEN: I guess that's it.
Engineer: Yep, you guessed right. Magnussen in the wall.
Engineer: We will review what happened at the bridge, we will review what happened at the bridge
Alexander ALBON: Yeah but I didn't do the traffic on that so it's not really about the bridge, but anyway
Engineer: And red flag, stay positive, red flag, stay positive, stay positive.
Charles LECLERC: And box to stop right. And box now, box,
Engineer: box now, box.
Engineer: And did you make any contact with the walls? No. Copy. Everything looks OK here. Still all clear behind.
Engineer: Are you okay Valtteri? All
Valtteri BOTTAS: good, all good.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I lost the rear a little bit from the start of the lap, so maybe we'll just go one click up instead of two.
Engineer: Okay Carlos, looks like we picked up a bit of rear locking in turn one. There's a tiny bit more tailwind but possibly the used tyres having a bigger effect.
Engineer: Main loss down the straights basically you lose breaking into ten and you lose Breaking into six, but apart from that it's all down the straights because you've got no tow
Carlos SAINZ: Ah, sorry guys. Missed
Engineer: the
Carlos SAINZ: braking. Sorry.
Engineer: Okay.
Engineer: yeaaas! that's pole position! great man! yeas yeas yeas yeas yeas yeas babataba pa papi
Sebastian VETTEL: WAHOO!
Engineer: also lap, also lap
Engineer: Okay Liz, so that's P2.
Lewis HAMILTON: Sorry about that guys.
Engineer: So positions P1 Sebastian, P2 Hamilton, and yourself P3
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I know, and we are quite far back, I've been struggling a lot
Engineer: Awesome job mate! P4! P4! Well done!
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yes!
Engineer: F***
Daniel RICCIARDO: yes! Cheers boys!
Engineer: Nice job mate! You got it Cassidy!
Engineer: Ok Carlos, so we start P9, we can have a good race from there Yeah,
Carlos SAINZ: I'm sorry, my fault, just went forward for balance for turn 8
Engineer: Okay, so stay negative, stay negative. And
Charles LECLERC: we are quite far back. I've been struggling a lot.
Engineer: And we qualified in P8, P8
Lando NORRIS: Alright, nice, wasn't a great lap as you could probably tell but a decent result so on to tomorrow
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