German Grand Prix 2019: Practice 2 team radio
73 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the German Grand Prix 2019, across 18 drivers. 66 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Carlos SAINZ had the most, with 10.
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
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 10 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 7 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 2 messages
Every message, in the order it happened
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Engineer: And two burnouts and a launch please. The track should be green.
Engineer: K2+, K2+, Norris 12 ahead, Rabanne 6 behind.
Engineer: Okay, tire temps are fine. You can go as slow as you want in that last sector. Brake temps are okay for now.
Engineer: I see a top 4 out of 106 Ok, anything we can do for that one? Yeah, we're looking mate, there's nothing obvious We see why, but we're seeing what we can do to help you
Engineer: Driver Default, Bravo 86, Bravo 86.
Romain GROSJEAN: OK, once or twice?
Engineer: Twice please, twice. That multi is to address the issue out of turn 6. And we'll take a K1 hold out of turn 4 on the next push please.
Engineer: And we can put a bit less energy in the tyres.
Engineer: And we can do an even slower slow lap if possible and Lando we suggest doing two slow laps We're going to try two slow laps I'll keep the updates on traffic
Engineer: Yeah, so cool all four tires cool all four tires
Engineer: Only place we lost is braking on minimum speed turn 8. We can consider going up different way for turn 8.
Charles LECLERC: The brake pedal feels a little bit more towards me compared to this morning. Is it possible? Everything is working fine. It's okay. The angle of it, basically. The angle of the pedal. Understood.
Engineer: Carlos, stay out, we'll do one more lap on this front wing. Stay out, cool down lap. Stay out, one more cool down lap. You want me to do another cool down lap, right? Yeah, one more cool down lap. The rear ride height is still a little low. Copy.
Charles LECLERC: Quite tricky to drive like this, if you can just check when we are getting back in the box.
Engineer: Checker recommend a wider line in 16 on entry for better apex. Checker currently P9, 15.7. Ahead, Sines 15.4, Lance 15.3. It's mainly turn 1 and turn 12.
Daniil KVYAT: Huge turbo lag out of turn 1, massive
Engineer: Understood Danny, we are looking at it, you need to cope for this run
Engineer: Checker we can do two more calls and one more push, we can do two more calls and one more push
Engineer: Bit of a vibration, nothing crazy. Wanna go again or not? Probably not, we'll tell you this.
Engineer: You have one lap of Strat 8 available, so I'll let you know, I'll let you decide if you want to do Strat 5 or Strat 8.
Sebastian VETTEL: No, the front left is not in good shape, maybe you can try and prepare to rebalance it for later.
Engineer: Copy, watch for botas 6 seconds behind.
Engineer: Is only the left front? Yeah, left front. Or also the right, because you locked also the right. No, but the right is not a problem, it's the left front. Okay. But it wasn't a big lock. But I don't know, it was very early, so I was surprised. And then I tried to release it as soon as possible, but... It's not in a good shape. Okay, understood.
Engineer: I think your microphone has failed, just picking up a load of engine noise. The
Lewis HAMILTON: other radio is falling off my chin.
Engineer: Ok Alex, definitely not easy out there, but looking at the tyres from here, it doesn't look like we hurt them too much, we'll see what we get in the long run.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, sure, very very neutral everywhere, especially the high speed, but yeah, the car was super oversteer. It felt like we had so much sharpness in the car, something which we complain about with the C4, it's not there, there's no laziness in the car.
Engineer: Recharge on.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I downshifted by accident in turn 1.
Engineer: Understood. We'll go for a double cool down lap please Max. I think those two laps can be at standard cool down lap pace.
Carlos SAINZ: Launch map on. Yeah, I'm waiting the launch port, everybody.
Engineer: Copy. I
Carlos SAINZ: think we're not seeing the last thing, not that there is one right now.
Engineer: and once again we want speed out of turn four then coast into turn six we'll want break up towards the end of the lap stroll six seconds behind time-lapse
Engineer: So Carlos, I missed the last part of your message I got, we didn't get it terribly wrong, so um.
Carlos SAINZ: So, um, box.
Engineer: Copy. And Carlos, do you want to try the other front wing or do that at high fuel?
Carlos SAINZ: At high fuel, I don't think it makes much sense like this.
Engineer: Copy.
Carlos SAINZ: Or we try more air balance, I don't know, like we said. Your call, I'm
Engineer: up for anything. I'm happy to try more air balance, happy to try more air balance.
Engineer: You went to torque 4 in the garage, but I think with the change we made, you don't need to run that extreme. If you're happy to run that, that's no problem. Turn 6 will have more effect than before if you're running that torque 4. Okay, good.
Engineer: So that's a P3, just over a tenth to Leclerc P1, so sectors down a tenth, sector 1 down two tenths, sector 2, but you're faster, final sector, nearly two tenths.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have no power mate, this is...
Engineer: Okay, standby.
Max VERSTAPPEN: And now it's working I think.
Engineer: So happy for you to take another lap if you think the tyres, or you learn anything from it. Mainly the double cool down, looks like the main difference is the straight line speed. So yeah, mainly straight line speed, but maybe a bit of minimum speed turn 12.
Engineer: Max we understand the issue, but we do need to box, not something we can correct from in here.
Engineer: And just need a bit of car speed to cool the Urs.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: It's unreal, these people.
Engineer: No, they're all over the space. I
Kimi RAIKKONEN: have to step on the brakes, that I don't go into too hard.
Engineer: And how is the balance? It's alright, a little bit understeery but not too bad. We could try more if you think it would help.
Lando NORRIS: I'll just go again.
Engineer: Okay, let's go again. So first car behind is Kubica, he's on a time-lapse.
Engineer: Ok, and you can start pushing straight away, lap time target is 20.0 Ok, understood Fail Alpha, 04 on
Engineer: Would you like to try it one more push question one more push question?
Pierre GASLY: The wheels are gone
Engineer: Okay, copy
Sebastian VETTEL: Not learning anything with this Okay
Engineer: So both left tyres hot but look to be stabilised now.
Engineer: Need to watch that left rear Nico, it's getting very hot now.
Engineer: So cool the car, we need to stop on our box and take some flap off, we didn't get all the flap down.
Engineer: Okay Danny, out of turn two we need the overtake but on the entire straight
Engineer: Can we have scenario four, scenario four, and can we latch the front left modifier?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Understood.
Engineer: Turn six now 20k tailwind on entry and headwind on exit. It's not just following
Engineer: Let's have blue bow 5, blue bow 5 and orange torque 8, orange torque 8.
Nico HULKENBERG: Will the aerobalance adjust at the stop?
Engineer: We were planning no change unless we saw an obvious balance issue
Nico HULKENBERG: Big torque always. I exit at 12 and then a big kick and boost. Yep, copy that. Maybe it's too low rough there. Yep, copy that. Maybe it's too low rough there.
Engineer: Current pace very similar to Toro's and Renault's
Nico HULKENBERG: The boost pattern seems inconsistent from one left to another.
Engineer: OK Nico, Nico C is saying that there is an issue that can be resolved for tomorrow, so you have what is unfortunately expected.
Carlos SAINZ: You have your left face on the limit as you saw Copy
Engineer: And we have the same procedure in pit lane, so mode 12, torque 12, 3 ramps, then into mode 3 for a gear 1 launch.
Nico HULKENBERG: I'm
Engineer: in,
Nico HULKENBERG: it says neutral, I am.
Engineer: Stand by, Nico. Pull the clutch and try and downshift, Nico. Pull the clutch in, try and downshift.
Nico HULKENBERG: Nothing happens. Try upshift.
Engineer: Stop the car, Nico. Stop the car.
Lando NORRIS: The Renault is not going, I'm not allowed to reverse
Engineer: Ok you have to pull out, pull out Pull out to the left and go
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Okay, folks, we drop... No, no, no, stay out, stay out, we don't have time
Pierre GASLY: I lost it
Engineer: Yeah, copy are you okay?
Pierre GASLY: Okay
Engineer: And you can go to mode slow, mode slow, so we'll come in, wait for the red flag to end, we'll get the other tire on. We can see we have some floor damage, we have some floor damage that occurred on lap three, so your aero balance is more forward, even more forward than it should be, so that's not helping you with all the rear problems. We'll have a look at the damage when you're in here and see if we can fix anything quickly.
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Engineer: Red flag, red flag.
Engineer: OK MAX, I'll win you stuff on the marks, we would like a pre-start rev check again please, can you make sure you're in mode 3 again and recharge off?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Which torque setting?
Engineer: As you are is fine.
Engineer: Pump the brakes before you go, by point five, two burnouts and a first gear launch, it's the long by point five
Nico HULKENBERG: No boost, no boost pressure.
Engineer: Standby. Scenario 12, vox this lap please Niko, Scenario 12, vox this lap.
Charles LECLERC: I hear something a little bit strange on braking, maybe if you can check if everything is fine.
Engineer: Copy, will do. And for us everything is good, on data all good.
Engineer: Yes Aneko, that's the end of our session I'm afraid.
Engineer: Four more laps, four more laps, first two management.
Engineer: Concentrate on the exit of 17, so don't push as much into 16 and concentrate on the exit of 17.
Engineer: So Carlos, looks like turn one was okay this lap and the first lap, but bad in your second attempt. That's what we see in the aero data.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, correct. I feel I have to be super smooth with the turning to avoid the dropout.
Engineer: Two more laps, two more laps, you can start to push more on the tyre.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, brake pedal failure, oof
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, brake pedal failure Oof, into turn 6 Lost the brake Copy
Engineer: Copy I'll make it back very slowly Yeah, drive very slowly, we have a possible leak on the rear circuit, take great care
Romain GROSJEAN: Okay, complete loss of power on that lap.
Engineer: Okay, we will investigate.
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