Chinese Grand Prix 2019: Practice 3 team radio
14 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Chinese Grand Prix 2019, across 10 drivers. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 3.
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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Daniil KVYAT: yeah I might be wrong about the steering wheel is slightly bend it to the right again and straight but a little bit
Engineer: and minus 0.4 sector 3 and minus 0.4 sector 3
Engineer: And can you be a bit more specific on where you struggled the most at the rear?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, yeah so, probably more the entries, I think which then had an effect on the exits, but probably the lower speed entries, into 6, into 6 and 11, and
Engineer: that hurt the exits. Battle 4 seconds behind you on the timelapse.
Lewis HAMILTON: So, the main
Engineer: losses in sector 1.
Engineer: And just be careful of your DRS it was too early on the main straight that time
Engineer: Okay Lance, we'll do a double cool, double cool and one more push if you want it. I mean I
Lance STROLL: don't know if it's going to get the tyres back, it feels like it's really a one lap tyre.
Engineer: Copy that.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Even the high speed, like 7 and 8, the cars seem quite reactive now, I would say 2 months.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: What the f*** was he doing? He almost hit me. Yeah, in the middle of the straight, I was on the left-hand side and he almost hit me on purpose.
Engineer: And Lando, how do you think was the front wing level? I'll explain later why I'm asking, we could add some more in.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I need to add some more, I would say, I've got one and a half.
Engineer: Yep, okay, we'll box then please.
Lando NORRIS: Okay, confirm.
Engineer: So Lando, I'm going to add two holes, so we are box this lap, it'll be two holes of front wing. Copy.
Lando NORRIS: Has the wind changed direction?
Engineer: For us it looks similar, so still a tailwind into turn 6.
Alexander ALBON: Sorry guys
Engineer: Are you okay, Alex? P1 stop the engine, P1 stop the engine. Are you okay, Alex?
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry
Charles LECLERC: Tell me a bit more about the three sectors.
Engineer: Copy, we need multifunction SPARC 12, multifunction SPARC 12. We are missing 3 tenths on the first sector, second is fine. Hamilton traffic.
Charles LECLERC: I took a hard hit out of turn 4, there was something in the slow lap now. Maybe check. Ok, we
Engineer: will check the data.
Engineer: Session will now be restarted, for the barrier damage. For the what damage on the barriers? Yes.
Daniil KVYAT: Red flag!
More from this weekend
Every session of the Chinese Grand Prix 2019Search the full archive