Italian Grand Prix 2019: Race team radio
67 radio messages were recorded during race at the Italian Grand Prix 2019, across 14 drivers. 61 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Charles LECLERC 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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 10 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 4 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Drive through for practice launch, drive through practice launch.
Engineer: Ananda, can we have a lift off before pit entry, are you lifted off already?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, OK
Engineer: Thanks, it's understood. Bye. Copy. Start was good, start was good.
Engineer: Remember we're left hand side now, left hand side, when you get to the back of the grid let's have neutral whilst coasting and then select first before stopping.
Engineer: Box, box, checko, box, box, drive through.
Engineer: Clutch position was on target so correction on the fuel side we are slightly unsafe So strat one you're going to the grid
George RUSSELL: Felt like I had some oscillation when I when I launched felt no wheelspin, but I don't think it was
Engineer: And you're going to the back of the grid.
Engineer: And onto the grid. Copy that.
Engineer: We're doing 62, Turn 1, yeah? Recommendation was 53, you could even use a bit of EB as well if you wanted to.
Engineer: I can hear something about the noise.
Engineer: There will be a first gear start for the start of formation lap. Think about your throttle and your clutch position during those.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Then
Engineer: after the formation lap there will be five burnouts with recharge on.
Engineer: Okay Carlos, tyre information. So the soft runners are Giovinazzi, Magnussen and Grosjean. All other cars with free choice are on medium tyres.
Engineer: First lap will be crucial here, that's more than leave nothing on the table so
Daniel RICCIARDO: day today
Carlos SAINZ: I lost the car and hit Alex without purpose. I had an oversteer.
Engineer: And Vettel will have DRS.
Engineer: So there will be debris middle of Ascari till the pit entry, there will be front wing debris from Vettel
Engineer: And how are the tires?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, all pretty consistent for now.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Flair 25.0, gap 1 second, Valtteri a 24.6, gap 1.4.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I'm gonna lose position now.
Engineer: Understood, understood.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: The rears are going. Well, I don't know about this, because it looks like... Understood, understood.
Engineer: We're 0.2 seconds quicker than Robert, last lap.
Romain GROSJEAN: Okay, what happened at the entry of the corner and I stole the gas and oh, power.
Engineer: Okay, we're checking, we're checking.
Engineer: Once Stroll takes his penalty we'll want to close up to Perez and Magnussen as quickly as we can.
Engineer: If you want more flexibility, you can go pink stretch seven, but it will cost you a tenth for two laps, and there'll be a bit more energy.
Engineer: And Charles, at the moment we are thinking tyre compound of plan A, but going to plan B.
Engineer: All I can
Romain GROSJEAN: drive is that brake balance and I've got lower retardation. I honestly don't know what's going on, but yeah, 1% too much able at least.
Engineer: Hamilton boxed and he's four and a half seconds behind you.
Nico HULKENBERG: Let's not lose time with him.
Engineer: Affirm.
Engineer: K1 plus available if you need it
Engineer: Sock 8 and keep using k1 plus, Hulkenberg on the same lap
Engineer: And racing Rosian is on.
Engineer: And Lando, we are boxed to overtake Perez, boxed to overtake Perez, he's the car in front of the stopper.
Engineer: So you're clearing Hülkenberg out of your window and please update us on tyres.
Engineer: And we need driver default Bravo 20 on Bravo 20 on when you can
Engineer: Okay, the plan is to go as long as the McLaren and the other cars behind us. We are in good shape. That's the best plan
Engineer: So Leclerc and Lewis going into Parabolica, they are still fighting
Engineer: Virtual safety car, virtual safety car stay positive
Engineer: Ok DRS is active, Perez took the opportunity to pit so he's come out ahead of us and that's Gasly, you'll be coming out in front of now, Gasly ahead
Engineer: Carlos, the wheels are not tight. Stop the car, stop the car. Aye,
Carlos SAINZ: aye, aye, aye,
Engineer: aye.
Engineer: And Charles is 5 seconds behind you. Roof leg to Charles and Hamilton right behind him. Hamilton is half a second behind Charles.
Engineer: And Lewis is all over the clock
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Big flat spot, big.
Engineer: Okay, understood, understood.
Engineer: and Hamilton behind 0.7 and Hamilton behind 0.7
Engineer: Another QALY here is now six seconds behind you.
Lewis HAMILTON: Gap behind
Engineer: Valtteri 23.6, gap 4.8
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Engineer: So to give you an idea, the pace up front out of interest is a 23.6. Albon at the moment just completed his lap.
Engineer: Eight tenths quicker than Hulkenberg.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: 823 for you. 823 for you.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Lewis 24-1, Leclerc 3.7
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Engineer: Hamilton behind 0.8
Engineer: We are not finishing in the point anyway at the moment. If you can stay on the 24-5 you can stay out. Otherwise we box for new medium.
Engineer: Chico, what you were doing with tyres before catching Giovinazzi is okay, we were happy with that to the end.
Engineer: Doing a great job there Nico. Gap to Arbonne, 6.1 seconds. Obviously you're picking up the tow from the cars ahead now. It's Grosjean and Kubica a lap down.
Engineer: Checo, tyres are okay, but for your info, if we push harder we expect overheating and performance will drop.
Engineer: And we need secondary WD position 9, WD position 9 when you can.
Engineer: And we need multifunction, spark two, multifunction, spark two, when you can. And we need.
Engineer: Okay, make sure you cancel the clip into Turn 1 Max.
Engineer: Okay, you battled well, man. Sorry the car didn't hold up. We'll figure out what it was and get it right for next time.
Engineer: So Valtteri a 22.9, so we have a clear pit window, so thinking about stopping once more, going for fastest lap.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah.
Engineer: So this will be strap mode 5 for the next lap. This lap you could use strap 1 out of 7 just to charge the pack up to the brim.
Engineer: Okay, boost on, leave it on. Boost on and leave it on.
Engineer: After this lap there will be one more lap we expect that Giovinazzi will get blue flags for Leclerc and Bottas we want to be right there with them to take advantage
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