German Grand Prix 2019: Practice 1 team radio
57 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the German Grand Prix 2019, across 17 drivers. 56 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 6 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 6 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Robert KUBICA · Williams · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, three ramps please Max, three ramps, it's 20 seconds to green light.
Engineer: And no DRS on the outlap.
Engineer: And please use DRS after turn four.
Pierre GASLY: I can't touch the brakes, as soon as I touch the steering starts vibrating a lot in front of the car.
Engineer: So if the safety car stuff worked correctly, you should not have tones at the moment. That's okay, correct. So we'll leave it in that mode for now, and then again, before turn two, you can switch to aero for the aero.
Engineer: Carlos in the pit lane I'd like a bike point find and then stop on the marks bike point find then stop on the marks
Engineer: OK, can I do a DRS check? Yep, understood. OK, and then at turn 6 it's recharge on, after turn 6, Aero P4, 5th gear, Aero Cruise please.
Engineer: Okay, mode slow, two burnouts, and then mode race start for a practice start.
Robert KUBICA: I think we have a problem of DRS detection point 2, it's not detecting, so I cannot use DRS.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I have some sort of alarm and no power.
Engineer: OK, we're checking.
Engineer: OK Lando, we're ready again, so let's go to P2. OK, we're making good time here, which is good. So like I say, same thing again, this one is low rear right height. Lando, we can turn recharge off.
Engineer: I presume front
George RUSSELL: right tyre temp is incorrect?
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, looks like a fault with the sensor.
Engineer: So guys we've got a red flag for Magnussen that's stopped on track, so Lando and everyone we'll just have the car ready Such that as soon as this track goes green we can head straight back out
Engineer: like a second gear start going actually no just go straight out please just go straight out recharge on so if you're hearing beeps just go to the tire position no beeps for now okay just go to the tire position anyway tire position please
Engineer: Ok so front temps are good and the rears are slightly on the hot side so we can just manage the traffic and build a gap in sector 3. Temps will be good for the first lap.
Romain GROSJEAN: Okay dum-dum I've got a lot of understeer in every low speed so is
Engineer: there anything we can do? Okay if we are looking I'll come back with a suggestion you're in sync with Gasly behind he's just finished his first push as well
Engineer: Back to tyre 8, get some clear track if you can, box, yeah box, crazy steer, turn 8, turn 10, turn 12.
Engineer: OK, Vontre, currently P1 there, let us know if you need a flap adjust.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, I need plus 2 on the flap.
Engineer: Plus 2, OK, so box box, you've got Russell on a slow lap, 7 seconds behind, currently P1, it's a 7 tenths to Lewis in P2.
Engineer: I've got a box for some front wing OK I'd suggest a decent step if that sounds okay for you so I was going to suggest four turns up which is 0.8% Yep, coming up
Engineer: So turn two and
Daniel RICCIARDO: turn six, a lot of understeer.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. Do you need a front wing adjust?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, yeah, let's try. Let's try two clicks up.
Engineer: Shall we try a bit more than that? Just to get a feel for it.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay.
Lewis HAMILTON: The truck is really dirty, the car feels quite strange, the front tyre is not working.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Engineer: And remember the next push will be the last push for timing.
Engineer: So keep pushing keep pushing two more time-lapse keep pushing in mode six no DRS do not use DRS
Charles LECLERC: I'm happy to stop now and to go for a big change.
Engineer: Copy.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it feels like it's overheating massively, the tyres.
Engineer: Yeah, there's not much lap time evolution in this from the other cars.
Engineer: I
Lando NORRIS: think I had no deployment at the last corner
Engineer: Yep okay we're checking now and we can do another lap if you want careful of Hamilton he's the car behind Yeah
Lando NORRIS: I'm going for one more
Engineer: We can see the issue, stand by we're trying to resolve it and I need a default 0-3 please, default 0-3 0
Lando NORRIS: -3 confirmed
Engineer: Okay that's... Okay we are happy to do a time-map, happy to do a time-map Bottas is the car behind on the time-map, seven seconds back
Engineer: OK, track is clear, you're the only car on track, let's go, push.
Engineer: OK we're going to need more full throttle before 12 to try and charge the pack back up, still clear out, expect it'll be second lap will be quicker, second lap will be quicker.
Engineer: And try and target plus 40 again, plus 40 drop in rear, front's are good.
George RUSSELL: How are we looking, do we need more?
Engineer: That should be fine now, that's a much better shape than it were last time round.
George RUSSELL: Copy, still cannot give the car a turn at all, apex of slow speed.
Engineer: Hulkenberg is seven behind on a push and then there's a 15 second gap to Hamilton So you can let Hulkenberg through and then go slow in the last sector just to have a low surface to start the lap Hulkenberg five behind on a push
Engineer: Half a second, half a second to Valtteri P2, he didn't improve on total lap time on his medium. So still time to find entry turn 6, looks like Valtteri had a mistake in his final sector on that lap.
Engineer: OK, recharge on.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, yeah I don't think it's going to get better, I'm happy to come in for a change.
Engineer: OK, understood. So Daniel we would like to do one more lap please in scenario 6, SOC 4.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: F*** is this people doing?
Engineer: Yeah, saw that. Saw that.
Engineer: Tyres are good, brakes are good. Brake temperature into turn 13, need a brake press into turn 13.
Nico HULKENBERG: I think we'd better go back on this change. It feels very bad, lap after lap, worse and worse.
Engineer: Ok cast, we would like one more lap for aerodata, one more lap for aerodata
Engineer: Guess we're not pushing this lap max now.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Oh yeah, double slope.
Engineer: Okay, that'll be triple slope.
Charles LECLERC: Is there any places where I'm losing significantly, apart from the last sector where I had traffic?
Engineer: I come back to you, just the last sector at the moment, out of turn 6, apex and exit turn 6.
Engineer: I can brake later in turn 8.
Lance STROLL: Vettel just, or whoever that was, just completely turned in. That was really dangerous, huh? I was approaching at a very high speed.
Engineer: It was Leclerc for info, Lance. It was Leclerc that got in your way.
Engineer: Okay, so you're both slow you'll do two burnouts you can also try funk four if you want to try funk four for the start of the lap Go to boat race start for the start and you can try funk four
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Just so you know, the FIA boards in the wind, they were red, but it was saying Zio or Gio and zero, so not five and not my name, so just so you're aware.
Sebastian VETTEL: Copy, thank you for the feature.
Engineer: We can see overeating at both ends.
Engineer: Pump the brakes before you go. 35, 35 and purple C11 position 5, purple C11 position 5.
Engineer: OK Magnussen coming through, he is high fuel, he's done 4 laps in the 1.20s You
Max VERSTAPPEN: want me to stay ahead? Yeah
Engineer: well we can't hold him up, so if you think, the gap currently is at 1.8
Nico HULKENBERG: I think there must be a problem somewhere. Very, very low, Jakob.
Engineer: And for the procedure we will need 1 burnout, 1 burnout, clutch activation and target 2 red.
Engineer: And suggest green shape four, green shape four. Can
Carlos SAINZ: I go into the system and take a look?
Engineer: Yes, so that is shock eight, shock eight, and scenario nine, scenario nine. And purple C2 position nine, purple C2 nine.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, with the time we have we can do probably two push, so push-cool-push or push-cool-cool-push. So you're already in mode race, all good.
Daniel RICCIARDO: I'm happy to go sustainable if you want.
Engineer: Yeah OK, let's do a couple more laps, so scenario 4 and SOC 6 please, scenario 4 SOC 6. Can we have throttle 4 on the multifunction, throttle 4, so that's at 3 o'clock on the multifunction. PU 13 position 4, PU 13 position 4. OK we've got 2 or 3 laps out of this, recharge off.
Engineer: Sector 3 time is stable, if not a little bit quicker, just losing Sector 1.
Engineer: And we have yellow, yellow at turn 13. So VALFREES just a minute through the gravel.
Engineer: OK, the track is clear ahead, but Bottas may have brought gravel onto the track exit of 13.
Engineer: All okay, all okay.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Car's okay, just tires are pretty flat spotted.
Engineer: Yeah, I can hear that.
Engineer: Hey Max, we're boxing this lap, pre-start rev check before you switch off, it is a practice pit stop but please keep your eyes peeled on the Weybridge lights please, check for the Weybridge lights when you come in.
Engineer: Charge button on, and boxy back in box, speed entry test, stop on the marks and full crew P-stop.
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