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Team radio transcript

Hungarian Grand Prix 2019: Practice 2 team radio

30 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2019, across 12 drivers. Carlos SAINZ 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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: Rain reported in this sector only.

  2. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Daniil KVYAT: 10-06 and it's still raining here a bit, quite a lot actually Copy

    Engineer: that

  3. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's drizzling all over the track so far.

    Engineer: Understood.

  4. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Daniil KVYAT: Why is Grosjean braking so suddenly?

    Engineer: Don't know mate, it's Alex who went out last corner

  5. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Daniil KVYAT: It is not super comfortable out here. I mean all the kerbs are quite wet and astroturf and So white lines and stuff like that

  6. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: And let us know if it's raining out there.

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Still drivable.

  7. Daniil KVYATToro Rosso

    Daniil KVYAT: See more rain in turn 5 now

  8. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, it's falling a bit heavy a second sector

    Engineer: Okay, understood

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, it's probably on the edge

    Engineer: I'm happy to box if you are. Okay, understood. So got five seconds to Perez behind you in a time-lapse

  9. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Pretty constant, so sector 2 is a bit of

    Engineer: a

    Valtteri BOTTAS: drizzle, losing a bit of grip, but not a lot.

  10. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: I think it stopped a little bit now the rain

  11. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: It's 25 and sector 2 felt a bit fishy again, and now I have some rain again on the visor

  12. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Nico HULKENBERG: At 25 it's like the two felt a bit fishy again, and now I have some rain again on the visor

  13. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: I feel like it's getting a little more, the drittles.

    Engineer: Okay, understood.

  14. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: That is it, more rain.

    Engineer: OK, copy.

  15. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: It

    Valtteri BOTTAS: is slightly more now. If it's getting worse then it's

    Engineer: going to be unbearable.

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, let us know if you want to box.

  16. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: And box box box

  17. Sergio PEREZRacing Point

    Sergio PEREZ: Very good track conditions at the moment, track is ready to go

  18. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Ok Carlos, so front wing is set for inter, obviously we don't want to damage it.

  19. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: There's a bit more rain in pit lane now, but it's still dry for an inter-tire

  20. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: It's raining more than ever.

    Engineer: Yeah, there's heavier rain in the pit lane now

  21. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: So currently all Marshall posts are not reporting rain the

    Carlos SAINZ: marshals must be having a beer then

  22. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: Hey

  23. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: What do you think on track conditions?

    Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah it's intermediate, not a lot of standing water but it's wet everywhere.

  24. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: And

    Engineer: I

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: think my steering is a little bit on the left, left-right.

    Engineer: Copy, and DRS has been disabled.

  25. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Max I'm happy with that happy with that quickest out there by three seconds

  26. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: Feels night and day better than Hockenheim, bit of front overheating I think, sector 3 But really is in a much better shape than last weekend

    Engineer: We're happy to box at this point so we'll box this lap, box box, we'll make the set up change

  27. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: So, Kevin, if you have an understanding of the car balance, we can stop running or we can carry on another push if you want. Now I see these temps are getting low, so maybe it'll be hard to go again, but it's up to you. Let's learn a little bit. Okay, understood. So carry on.

  28. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Are

    Carlos SAINZ: people still improving or not?

    Engineer: Last lap, yeah, people are still improving, people are still improving. Ricciardo three seconds behind.

    Carlos SAINZ: Lap time, what are they doing?

    Engineer: So it's a bit mixed. Fastest is Verstappen 32.6, Magnussen 32.9, Ricciardo 33.2.

    Carlos SAINZ: Wow, are they doing constant laps or not?

    Engineer: Magnussen is doing two laps at a time, Ricciardo similar two laps at a time.

  29. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: This car is just like Germany now.

  30. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: I would say we need an end of the pit lane start now, if you're happy to don't close this one.

    Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, I'm happy. I need to get a tissue, I need a wipe, I can't see s***.

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