Monaco Grand Prix 2019: Race team radio
84 radio messages were recorded during race at the Monaco Grand Prix 2019, across 19 drivers. 68 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 21.
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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 21 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 7 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 7 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 4 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 3 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 3 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
- Robert KUBICA · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: 10-5 loud and clear, have a drink, try your drink
George RUSSELL: Bit on the nose through the tunnel. Rear is floating a bit
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Engineer: There's nothing really on the radar at the moment, so we're thinking dry race, but we'll just keep an eye on it and update.
Engineer: So, update VATRI, some light rain forecasted in 15 minutes. OK.
Engineer: It's fairly quiet, that one. Might need to check in my foot.
Daniel RICCIARDO: How's that? Is that any good? Yeah, it's right in my mouth. Can't get closer.
Engineer: It looks like there's some higher intensity stuff there that would possibly push us onto an inter, so just be mindful of that.
Engineer: Alright, good luck mate. Go get him.
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Engineer: Lance, we're expecting some light rain in 20 minutes coming from Turn 8 first.
George RUSSELL: Just look at the camera now is it looks like a bit of grain in already looks a bit odd on the front right
Daniil KVYAT: Something is hanging in my cockpit, I don't know where it is. Ah, it's okay, it's this biometric glove.
Engineer: Understood, we'll look at it, we'll look at it.
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Charles LECLERC: Do I have a picture?
Engineer: We have a picture.
Engineer: So look look, tyre debris, exit turn 11, onwards, if you keep to the left, exit turn 11.
Lewis HAMILTON: Tires are set to pull apart.
Engineer: So let us know if you have any damage.
Charles LECLERC: How big is the floor damage? So
Engineer: the rear, I could see the rear right, there's some damage and also on the rear left, the rear left is less, the right is a bit more.
Charles LECLERC: Is it a big thing or not?
Engineer: It is quite big on the rear right, quite big damage on the rear right. I can push right, I can push right. We think you can push, yes.
Sebastian VETTEL: I got a bit hairy between those two in the pit lane, obviously it was a very aggressive release from Red Bull, fair, but then I think Mark Schlepp is in a bit more room.
Engineer: Set
Lewis HAMILTON: the gas, super slow.
Charles LECLERC: I'm the first one to not give up, but I'm telling you, the car is extremely difficult to drive.
Engineer: You have lost the right hand side tyre louvers on the floor.
Engineer: Did Hulkenberg got any penalty because he needs to leave a car space?
Lewis HAMILTON: Question, does James think I'm in trouble with these tyres? I have to drive super slow now, I don't know how long they can last.
Engineer: Lewis, what you're doing is great, just keep the management up and it will all go our way.
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Engineer: Did Hulkenberg got any penalty? Because he needs to leave a car space.
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Engineer: Okay, you are the quickest car on track, sight's just about in the window, just keep your head down, this is good.
Engineer: So there's a possible chance of some very light rain in about five minutes, best way is just to keep as much rubber remaining.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Everything okay?
Engineer: Yeah so we've just been given a five second time penalty for the incident in the pit lane. So obviously we can take that at a pit stop if there's any rainabouts, or it'll be added to our race time at the end, or of course you can overtake Hamilton and drive up into the distance, but yeah I'll leave that with you mate, no risks.
Engineer: difficult part of the tyre we think it'll clear up so just keep being careful you're doing a great job
Carlos SAINZ: Starting to rain a bit
Engineer: Lift your pace now. Start to lift your pace.
Engineer: Let's have Franz open it up.
Engineer: The
Lance STROLL: tires are so bad.
Engineer: The
Lance STROLL: car just can't get around the corners.
Lewis HAMILTON: Had he considered to put the hard tyre on me?
Engineer: If we need to stop again Lewis, we would go for the hard but looking OK at the moment Verstappen also looks like he has graining front left, looks worse than yours
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Again, it just drives into me.
Engineer: We saw it Kimi, we saw it. We have you on board.
Lewis HAMILTON: Are the others just holding back or are they struggling to keep up?
Engineer: Yeah Lewis, I think all the cars behind realise how difficult it is to overtake here, so they're not pushing it.
Engineer: Might have had the wrong tyre on man. Now we're pretty confident Lewis, Grosjean 39 laps on his soft set and still going, doing similar lap times.
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Engineer: I come out, let's go, let's go, let's use the tire.
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Kimi RAIKKONEN: Ok, I lost something. I'm losing a drive for some reason on the rear.
Engineer: Copy, copy, we're having a look. I
Kimi RAIKKONEN: think rear right, something.
Engineer: Copy, rear right, keep pushing at the moment. Ok, your tyre pressure all good?
Kimi RAIKKONEN: No, it's mechanical, it's in the deep foot. Copy, copy.
Sergio PEREZ: Man, Kevin got the chicane. I overtook him and he got the chicane.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm definitely in the bad way
Lewis HAMILTON: I think I'm in big trouble guys Left front is dead Yeah, copy loose. All we can do is go as long as we can. We aren't gonna box now
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Daniil KVYAT: If I follow him this close, I open the graining myself, so let him die with his tires and then we attack.
Engineer: Are
Lance STROLL: my temps cold or hot? I don't even know anymore.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, so ahead of you is your friend Stroll, he's on hard tires.
Lewis HAMILTON: We're going to lose this race Mono, I can't look after the tyres anymore, they're dead.
Engineer: So Lewis just thinking about it, if we manage to the same pace as the cars in front and you can still hold Verstappen behind then we won't have to pass anyone. I can't keep the car behind Mono!
Lewis HAMILTON: Can you not see that?
Engineer: Yeah no problem Lewis, hear you loud and clear, Verstappen's been there all race.
Lewis HAMILTON: I don't know what you're thinking when you keep these tires on, man.
Engineer: You
Lewis HAMILTON: need to hope for a miracle.
Engineer: Slightly bizarrely, you were the quickest car on the track that lap.
Engineer: Lewis, it's James. You can do this, we trust in it.
Engineer: Slightly bizarrely, you were the quickest car on the track that lap.
Nico HULKENBERG: Woohoo! Extra point! There we go.
Engineer: If you can find another one and a half seconds, then you might get that extra point.
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Engineer: So don't get distracted by Gasly, you manage your race, 15 laps to go after this one.
Engineer: Time management's been good Carlos, time management's been good and tyres look good to us.
Engineer: Mode 7, when you're ready Max. Mode 7, to the end.
Engineer: And Verstappen has been given more power. You have overtake available.
Lewis HAMILTON: Wow, that's great news.
Engineer: You are now 20 seconds of Hamilton, you are within 20 seconds of Hamilton, his lap time 17.5, so we can back off, target lap time low 17.
Engineer: That's a good effort, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, just turns in. I'm trying to overtake.
Engineer: Get in there Lewis. That one's for Nicky mate. That one is for Nicky.
Engineer: Lewis it's James, incredible drive, well done, there was no one else that could have done that, just really well done mate.
Engineer: Luis, that was a victory worth, Niki. Well done. Unbelievable job. Congratulations.
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Engineer: Well done Carlos, well done. P6, fantastic drive.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, great job guys. I did the job at the start, you did it on the strategy. So thank you. What a team, what a team!
Engineer: Good job mate, good job. So we just lost out there. We had a penalty, five second time penalty to Ricciardo. So P10 mate, P10. Why have we got a five second penalty? Crossing the line on the pit exit.
Engineer: Well done, solid race
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, guys, I really struggled with the rear tires the whole of the second stint I just couldn't get them to work Grazie ragazzi
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Lewis HAMILTON: He definitely made that one after me, that one's definitely for Nicky
Engineer: Yeah sorry about that Lewis but mate, that was a worthy drive
Alexander ALBON: Yeah well done guys, good job. I don't know where we overtook the other car, I guess it's DNF, but yeah well done.
Engineer: Yeah you've done a good job, you've done a very good job, it's a good day for the team.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, yeah
Engineer: people
Engineer: P7 Dani, P7 Thank
Daniil KVYAT: you Mattia and everyone my best result for Toro Rosso Thank you very much, thank you means a lot
Pierre GASLY: Excellent Pierre, P5, in the end you finished P5 and you have fastest lap. Okay, got a couple more points, it's
Engineer: good, the
Pierre GASLY: car was really super fast, super super fast, thanks boys.
Engineer: Well done Pierre, it was a very strong recovery today, really good, very good, fastest lap by a good margin, good pace in the race, well done.
Engineer: Well done Carlos, well done. P6, fantastic drive, brilliant job today.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, great job guys. I did the job at the start, you did it on the strategy. So thank you. What a team, what a team.
Engineer: Copy. I thought the driver who is in front gets priority over the who is behind. Copy that. Have a chat when you get back here.
Engineer: That was really well done George, well done.
George RUSSELL: Thanks guys.
Engineer: Car's on merit this week. That's really good.
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