Hungarian Grand Prix 2019: Qualifying team radio
32 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2019, across 15 drivers. 28 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
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Robert KUBICA · Williams · 1 message
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: So there's a good headwind out of one but tailwind into one.
Engineer: Is currently six tenths quicker than Stroll, Airways Ahead, currently six tenths quicker than Stroll.
Engineer: Okay, Weybridge, Weybridge. They like us.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it definitely feels a bit more windy out here.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: What the hell was Kvyat doing? Yeah, we'll talk about it with them. Okay, so now you have Kvyat and Gasly. Watch Kvyat and Gasly pushing. Kvyat just completely didn't get out of the way. Understood. Loud and clear. We'll pass it on. So that's Kvyat now.
Engineer: Yeah, a little bit of traffic really, Ferrari's kind of in the way, not so much. OK copy, you've got 17 seconds behind to Perez on a slow lap, so plenty of space.
Engineer: That was everything, boys. Perfect.
Romain GROSJEAN: Mate, the f***ing Alfa, what is he doing in the... You cannot slow down here, you cannot slow down here.
Engineer: Understood, we will report it.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Sergio PEREZ: What the f*** is wrong with Ricardo, man? He f***ed his lap, he f***ed your lap.
Engineer: and recharge off, VBAL 3 and recharge off, just get yourself a gap to him
Engineer: Ok look after this set, it might be your race start set. Keep your dash negative though, but look after it.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Thais were too cold to start the lap because of their slow last sector. We are boxing, no?
Engineer: We are boxing Max, yeah.
Engineer: Unbox this lap box, everything is fine on data as before, Sebastian lap time 15.8
Charles LECLERC: Copy, I took it easy in the last sector
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, Norris was like trying to stay as close to me in turn 4.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Uh, there's no grip.
Engineer: Keep me updated time-wise because these guys are going to have to f*** around. You have one minute from now.
Engineer: Looks like you caught a big tailwind there, man. Sorry about that.
Engineer: Ok Carlos, so the sun's gone in, the track may cool those 3 or 4 degrees quite quickly.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm losing a little bit of battery out of the last corner he rate
Engineer: Better late than never mate, better late than never, congratulations Yes,
Max VERSTAPPEN: boys, come on. Yes. Oh this feels good. This feels really good.
Engineer: Mate, incredible lap, incredible
Engineer: We're P7, we're best of the rest.
Lando NORRIS: Alrighty, nice job guys, done.
Engineer: I
Lando NORRIS: don't think it could have been much better in terms of result, I didn't have the gap to the car ahead but I was a bit more in that lap, I didn't nail it really, so good position for somewhere.
Engineer: Yeah, no mate, it was a really good job, well done, all the weekend you've been on it. Gap to Gasly, who's the car in front, it's three and a half tenths.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Ouch, that's close. Yeah, but
Engineer: good job, Valtteri, on losing all the running yesterday.
Lewis HAMILTON: How far is it off?
Engineer: Just a couple of tenths to Verstappen.
Engineer: Good job Charles. Good job.
Charles LECLERC: I'm very sorry for my mistake guys Yeah, no need to say sorry, but just thanks for the good job I think we maximized We maximized today in terms of performance on the Q3 lap at the end. Very happy with my lap
Engineer: Ketchup yet in the top six and starting on primes
Lando NORRIS: All righty, nice job guys, I don't think it could have been much better in terms of result, I didn't have the gap to Dakar ahead, but was a bit more in the lap, I didn't.
Engineer: And we are, ah, P10, P10. P10? Yeah, confirm P10, P10. I really thought that there was more.
Engineer: Well done Max, quickest in pretty much every session and you nailed that last one there, fantastic, fantastic first of all. Thanks
Max VERSTAPPEN: Christian, it seems like we like all the ring tracks.
Engineer: Max, negative on the next please mate. Oh the car was on fire. That was an awesome lap, awesome lap, two hundredths ahead of Bottas, two tenths clear of Lewis, a half second clear of Leclerc and Bessel.
Engineer: Good job, too. Good job. That was a really good lap Good job, Roman. Magistral lap, very good. Thank you, Ernie. Good job also.
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