Mexican Grand Prix 2019: Practice 2 team radio
56 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Mexican Grand Prix 2019, across 18 drivers. 54 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Carlos SAINZ had the most, with 8.
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 · 8 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 3 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 1 message
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, and recharge on, recharge on, and can we go to scenario 6 please, scenario 6.
Engineer: I
Kimi RAIKKONEN: have kind of a bit of vibration at the right time
Engineer: Copy that Is it drivable?
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Just about Ok, let's try one more lap On the long run we need to balance
Max VERSTAPPEN: The torque delivery is not really good out of the corners, looks neat. Yep,
Engineer: understood.
Engineer: And Lando, after we complete the time lap, we need to lift after the start-finish line. So when we complete the time lap, lift over the start-finish line.
Engineer: How's that front right?
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, I'll let you know how it is. It felt pretty big. I'll keep you posted when I get up to speed.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: That was a pretty good lap for your information on how the how is the vibration on the front me
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, not very nice on the straight to try to
Engineer: Try
Kimi RAIKKONEN: to find the breaking part, so I would rebalance them now after this one Okay,
Engineer: he's possible so we can the front right only the rest. Okay, I'll try to copy
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, I have a problem. I'm in force neutral.
Engineer: Don't shift at the moment. Looks like you have drive. Confirm.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, yeah, it's working.
Alexander ALBON: Sorry.
Engineer: Are you okay?
Alexander ALBON: I'm okay.
Engineer: Okay, that's a red flag, Carlos. Red flag will box this lap. Delta positive. Delta positive and no overtaking.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, the stair wasn't ready for a stand-up.
Engineer: Copy. So you're still P4, Carlos. It's not a bad lap. There's 17 cars that have set laps. I'm sure that with a second attempt there was more to find.
Engineer: Red flag, red flag.
Engineer: Ok Pia, we're gonna wait. Too many cars already.
Engineer: Okay, then target plus 10, plus 10, focus on warming up the fronts.
Lance STROLL: Fronts
Engineer: are
Lance STROLL: quite hot now.
Engineer: Fronts are okay, fronts are in the window, rears are cold. Rears are still not hot enough on that lap.
Engineer: Carlos, does the tyre feel OK?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, yeah, no problem. I backed off when I started to feel the front lock, so no problem.
Engineer: Just back off, turn for braking a little bit for the minimum there.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And Kimi will lose another tenth, turn seven, mid to exit.
Engineer: The
Lewis HAMILTON: front tires have been eaten.
Engineer: Affirm, we see them as getting very hot.
Engineer: There's potential time gain under braking at turn 1 and turn 4.
George RUSSELL: Reduce diff mid for turn 1, 2, 3. Bit pushy at the apex. Very pointy on the entry of 7.
Engineer: Suggest torque 4 for turns 1 to 3.
Engineer: Oh
Daniil KVYAT: come on man, he doesn't even look
Pierre GASLY: I just have like a different balance between turn 7, 8, 9, and turn 10, so it's understeer at the beginning, but then oversteer in turn 10.
Engineer: Copy that, we're looking at what we can do.
Engineer: Carlos, do you want to try the roll stiffness or prefer just to do the tyre compare with this setup? The car seems like it's working quite well.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, let's do the tyre only.
Engineer: OK, madam, we need to go to SOC 3 for the next push lap, SOC 3 for the next push lap, and that will be the last timed of this run.
Romain GROSJEAN: What can I try?
Engineer: Come back to you. Just confirm you're happy in pad 2 where you are now. Yeah,
Romain GROSJEAN: I'm going to try that.
Engineer: Copy that. Turn 10 is the only loss, really, to Kevin, so yeah, just turn 10.
Engineer: The turbo is making some really weird noises. Okay, understood. I'll check with the guys. Yeah, the guys understand what's happening. They'll be able to sort it. No action required. Just come in.
Engineer: Straight out, straight out. Just
Lewis HAMILTON: pull the mic away from your mouth a little bit please.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Lance, do you think we'll get much out of another lap?
Lance STROLL: No, I don't. So let's box. I mean we can, yeah, it's your call. If there's something Chris wants to try in terms of like diff or whatever, I'm happy to do another one just for that.
Engineer: No, I think we'll box, save the tyre for the long run box and save the tyre for the long run.
Lance STROLL: OK.
Engineer: That's currently P5, that's 3 tenths to Valtteri.
Lewis HAMILTON: What did that weather lose us
Engineer: at? So to Valtteri it just looks like turn 4 and then in sector 3 turn 13, minimum speed at 13. That was a little bit in 11 with that traffic that you had.
Pierre GASLY: Is he kidding me or?
Engineer: Yep, not sure what he's been doing now.
Engineer: not urgent I need default 8 alpha that's 8 on the left and 10 on the right
Pierre GASLY: Can you check the engine braking in turn 5 because they have like massive handbrake in this lap
Engineer: Engine 5 position 2, engine 5 position 2, box box
Carlos SAINZ: I should have cut that up there initially.
Engineer: Yeah, it's a first lap tire now clearly a first lap time
Engineer: Check out front temps in particular still low, front temps still low so this poses a risk for graining
Engineer: The
Romain GROSJEAN: rear left decided to completely go up, can't drive any more like a grand motor.
Engineer: We need a bit more lift and coast for brake temp.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: I'm not getting a clean run here.
Engineer: Yeah, understood. I know the traffic's terrible.
Engineer: Key corners are 8, 10 and 12. Save the front left.
George RUSSELL: Upshifts were not great, just a comment in the before the pit stop
Engineer: Copy that. Okay, so we're happy with the PU currently
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, wheels are not that good. They're opening up now, this lap.
Nico HULKENBERG: Run left is starting to open up a bit.
Engineer: Copy that Nico. Runs looking good at the moment compared to others.
Engineer: So similar pace to Leclerc and Verstappen now.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, mate, this last thing we changed with the engine gives me much more lag.
Engineer: Engine 8, position 7. Engine 8, position 7.
Lewis HAMILTON: Left front stopped off.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'll be looking to other cars.
Engineer: Similar issues with graining. Face is okay for the moment. Lewis had two very good laps at the start of his stint but also is suffering with graining now.
Engineer: Carlos, happy with the standard wing adjust for medium?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah
Engineer: Apply the brakes during the stop, Carlos it'll be a qualifying pit stop, a long pit stop
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yes, understeering the high speed due to the flat spot, so that's given me some problems rotating the car as well, but the times seem to be more robust, status 8-9.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, I mean tiles are completely gone.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
Engineer: Check us out on lap 3, Reichenen was a couple of tenths quicker, but he has degged more at this point in the run. You are now four tenths quicker than Reichenen and Kvyat.
Carlos SAINZ: Opening up the graining here on this tyre again.
Engineer: OK, we do not want to open the graining. Drive to protect the graining. Other cars low deg and low graining on this tyre.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, 3 laps to go, can you use DRS now all the time until the checkered flag please?
Engineer: Engine 5, position 1, engine 5, position 1 What
Max VERSTAPPEN: does that do? It feels like a massive handbrake
Engineer: Shouldn't have had an effect, stand by
Engineer: Kevin, hold oil pump button for one second. Hold oil pump button one second.
Engineer: and just be careful of over pushing turn seven
Sebastian VETTEL: How was the pace on the SOP?
Engineer: It was the fastest, it was very good, the lap.
Lewis HAMILTON: Do you fancy giving me some feedback? Tire's gone off.
Engineer: Yeah, A-4, the pace looks very similar to Valtteri. We are offset to Verstappen currently. Yeah, around 4 tenths offset to Verstappen. There's
Lewis HAMILTON: no grip.
Carlos SAINZ: Yes, same amount of front greening on this tyre, the rears are fine
Engineer: Copy, copy, cool the brakes on the way in
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