Russian Grand Prix 2019: Practice 1 team radio
43 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Russian Grand Prix 2019, across 17 drivers. 42 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 10 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 3 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Robert KUBICA · Williams · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 1 message
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: I'd like Tyre 10 on the exit of Turn 16 before you box. Tyre 10 exit Turn 16 before you box.
Engineer: Push and avoid curbs
Engineer: OK, brake temperatures have come up well. You're staying out to push on the in-lap and just be careful, don't go making a gap turn 12 or 13, race director's note.
Engineer: We don't need tyre 10 on the exit of the final corner Max
Kimi RAIKKONEN: It's very bumpy coming in our box. There's some big bump in the pit line. You can see it visibly Okay And how much lower is this pit border this board need to be? Two centimeters. We should check it. Yeah, I know. We should check it should be done on a pit step practice
Engineer: So Lance, just watch your kerb usage.
Engineer: And a reminder, double steer turns four, five, seven.
Engineer: And your tire targets are 90 and 70
Engineer: And try to focus on recharge since it's a bit lower than normal at the start of this lap.
Engineer: brake temperature is okay, it will be mode race for last corner and mode race, mode race
Daniil KVYAT: No, it's gone guys
Sebastian VETTEL: Front right is not waking up, 15, 16.
Engineer: Copy, Jornas in front slowing down.
Engineer: And Carlos, what adjustment would you like?
Carlos SAINZ: Two turns up.
Engineer: Copy, two turns up.
Engineer: Yeah, it's caveat at turn 15 that seems to be an engine issue Yeah, they're pushing the car out
Engineer: Okay, so I hope that it'll go green soon. Yeah, VSC ending, VSC ending, so you can stay K2+, and then mode push to start the next lap. VSC ending, VSC ending, still yellow at 15.
Engineer: and we'd like diff mid 2 please diff mid 2
Lewis HAMILTON: My brakes aren't working properly
Engineer: That's a P1 10.5 Valtteri P2, you will get one more timed, if you're not comfortable with these brakes then we can box.
Engineer: We need multifunction mix position 3, mix position 3, and we will do constant speeds.
Charles LECLERC: Let me know the constant speed. So
Engineer: we need FS2, 4th gear, FS2, 4th gear, and back to mode raise.
Engineer: So you're the only car on track.
Engineer: You were target plus 3, initial throttle was low, drive out was good and we can send the launch map off.
Engineer: And Lando, how's the front wing?
Lando NORRIS: It's not enough, we need to come up one hole.
Engineer: OK understood, suggest we box this lap for front wing adjust.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: OK, classification update, Bottas currently P1, a 35.1 on the medium, Albon P2, 35.8 on the soft.
Engineer: This is
Alexander ALBON: quite strange, so much oversteer at high speed. Quite a lot of understeer at high speed this time, I felt like the FOMS weren't as ready as the previous lap.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
Engineer: Okay the losses to Bottas and Vettel are turns 8 and turn 10. Obviously that was your first time lap. Turns 8 and turn 10. So P1 was Vettel, 35.0, same tyre, Euro 35.5. Leclerc now 34.4.
Engineer: OK, so just waking up the tyres down to turn 13. You've got a good track position ahead of you, so maintain position. First car behind time-lapse, Alvon at turn 10.
Engineer: So Nico, turn 10 you actually braked later last lap, but the speed is actually at the apex. That's where the improvement can come, not on braking later. Braking points are good on previous laps. I suggest brake 4 for front locking.
Engineer: We'll go for a double cool down lap please Max, double cool lap. Would you like any recommendations for sector 3?
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, it's mainly sector 2.
Charles LECLERC: Can we stop, try something on the front wing, and go again?
Engineer: Yes, we can.
Charles LECLERC: That's 5 clicks.
Engineer: Copy.
Lewis HAMILTON: And how far are we down from the rest?
Engineer: So to Leclerc P1, 9 tenths at the moment
Engineer: OK recharge on please Max, and we'll box this lap, keep up with the base on the way in alright that one put your P2, just a tenth behind Leclerc, sector wise we are four tenths down in sector 1, just under a tenth in sector 2 and you are purple in sector 3, Bottas is two and a half tenths behind on the medium, Leclerc himself just under four tenths down in sector 3
Engineer: Box, box, box, box, we need those tires again, take it easy on the piton tree
Engineer: I should target something specific or? We'll get the tower warmed up and then we'll give you some feedback if we need lifting coast and if we need the lifting coast it'll be in sector 2 Copy
Engineer: We are checking, we are checking. All looks okay on our side for now, we'll keep you posted.
Engineer: All okay for you Robert?
Engineer: We'll do a practice start at the end of the pit lane. We need mode formation, two burnouts and target one red. Engine five when you can and try to work on modulation. Paddle modulation and you can keep K2 for all the lap.
Engineer: OK, Vettel is approaching you side by side, just hold 7th down to turn 2 And Vettel behind, so let him through
Max VERSTAPPEN: Mate, I don't even make it to 7 gear in the elevator
Engineer: Understood, please hold mode 3 to turn 10, you can stay in mode 3 to turn 10
Engineer: The
Valtteri BOTTAS: tires are still all good and consistent.
Carlos SAINZ: Copy,
Engineer: happy to box Carlos, we can box this lap.
Engineer: careful careful your rear wing is failed box box box
Engineer: It's like a very steady the rear wing is hanging off
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, I'm not sure if you saw it, but I just lost the rear just off the brake
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