Russian Grand Prix 2019: Race team radio
118 radio messages were recorded during race at the Russian Grand Prix 2019, across 19 drivers. 114 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 22.
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 · 22 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 11 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 11 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 10 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 8 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 8 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 7 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 6 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
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Engineer: Target, base minus 2 Reminder, no tyre warming, no tyre warming
Engineer: Reminder, no tire warming, no tire warming.
Engineer: Check out, we won't do a launch on this one because it's quite a long queue, it is green now.
Engineer: Front right brake was a bit on the low side, but it's recovering.
Engineer: Do you want a front wing change? No, not for now. Copy that. So driving through to do another start.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: The water bottle, the drinks bottle, is
Engineer: leaking into the car. Okay.
Engineer: Pit exit, tell me what I did wrong. Pit exit loud and clear, we'll come back to you. Start feedback, the clutch drop was too far, we need less drop on the clutch.
Engineer: Kevin, we need to cool the car a bit before the next start, so you need to lift off early for turn 13 there. Lift off early. It'll cool the car a bit.
Engineer: okay get me the clutch thing as soon as we can I really struggle with the start
Romain GROSJEAN: yeah
Engineer: And Carlos wind update we're seeing 18 to 20 K tailwind entry to turn 7 and mid-corner turn 10
Engineer: Caution, pit lane is busy. Caution, lots of people in the pit lane. How is front flap, Alex?
Alexander ALBON: It's OK. I'd say it's maybe a little bit on the neutral side. But yeah, it doesn't feel too bad. Main problem is a little bit like qualifying, just feels quite nervous on throttle tipping.
Engineer: But
Alexander ALBON: otherwise, yeah, it's...
Engineer: So we have a tailwind into seven tailwind into seven out of five and into seven
George RUSSELL: Did I have that little jolt off the throttle as I usually do with the launch?
Engineer: Yeah, afer.
George RUSSELL: So would you like me to try and hit a slightly higher target?
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. I'm pretty sure it's about 5% off the throttle, if that helps or not.
George RUSSELL: I'd prefer an RPM number.
Engineer: Got a lot of
George RUSSELL: apex understeer, turns 4, 5, 7, 8, 10. Power is neutral on the entry phase, so we're unsure if we want to do flap or not.
Engineer: So what was going on at the back, Tom? The silver tape had just rubbed off a little bit, so we had to replace it.
Engineer: Radio check Kevin
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Radio is good.
Engineer: Yeah, that's much better. So I think the mics in the right spot Yeah, four and a half minutes till we go four and a half minutes
Engineer: Okay Carlos, tyre information. So soft starters are Perez, Giovinazzi and Magnussen. Kivat is on the hard tyre and then all other cars are on medium. So Stroll is the closest car on medium, he's in P14.
Engineer: Quick info on track temperature, it's quite stable at 34 at the moment, and wind is on the light side.
Engineer: Yep, so 340kph. Just a reminder, pit speed limiter on after the engine is fired up. Alright mate, like last week, that first lap is not over after turn 2. Plenty of other opportunities. Let's fuck some shit up.
Alexander ALBON: When you release me I'll
Engineer: ask you to fire up once the clerk gets to his grid spot
Engineer: Everything ok?
Daniel RICCIARDO: About left rear, it's down
Engineer: I have rear left puncture, rear left puncture, safety cut
Lewis HAMILTON: Everyone okay?
Engineer: Yep, yep, driver okay, it was, er, it was, er, crucial.
Engineer: Ok Carlos, so the safety car was an incident between Ricciardo and Grosjean. Grosjean is stopped on the outside of turn 4. There's yellows on the exit of 3 around turn 4. Ricciardo has a rear puncture and is limping back to the pits at the moment.
Engineer: We are looking into the swap, further into the race.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, yeah, no problems Lisa, I understand.
Engineer: There's still yellow flags at turn four, could still be debris
Engineer: So remember, mission critical, getting through signs without losing too much time.
Engineer: Avoid overtake. Sock is low.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And Sebastian will lead you by next lap.
Sebastian VETTEL: So I would have got them anyways, but let's break away for another two laps, you know
George RUSSELL: How are surface temps? Front right seems a bit of an issue. Turn three.
Engineer: and let Charles by
Charles LECLERC: You put me behind. I respected everything. We'll speak later. But now it's difficult to close the gap obviously.
Max VERSTAPPEN: And there is like a handbrake into the corners.
Engineer: Remember to use overtake, remember to use overtake.
Engineer: And you are target plus 6. Target plus 6.
Engineer: You are the fastest car on track. Head down. You are doing well.
Engineer: We are looking to plan C, Charles 1.9 behind.
Engineer: Charles, we will do the swap a bit later on. Lewis is a bit close and we want to push now in the race, which we will do later, just focus on your race. Thank you.
Charles LECLERC: I completely understand, the only thing is that I respected, I gave the slipstream, no problems And then I tried to push at the beginning of the race but I overheated the tyre, well anyway, no problems, manage the situation
Engineer: That's another good lap, small things, be careful on initial throttle turn 2 exit and don't attack the brakes too hard into turn 8.
Engineer: OK mate, so we're seeing similar damage than we had in Spa, balance is expected to be 6 klicks forward.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, understood, yeah, struggling to hang with Russell.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: We are still on plan a
Engineer: Your front right tire is on the warm side. The other three are good
Engineer: Mode 8, just to top up the battery, mode 8. OK, leaders pace 39.0, we're half a second down in sector 1, around 4 tenths, 5 tenths in sector 2.
Engineer: Sebastian in front at 3.7 Hamilton behind 3.3
Engineer: These
Lewis HAMILTON: guys have some serious face, man.
Engineer: Feel free to increase the right hand side tyres a little bit through turn 8 Max, turn 8.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, I'm not holding back massively dude, it's just not a lot of grip.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I got nothing on the rear, I'm trying to get close, just get to us.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: And you can push now.
Engineer: Lewis degradation looks low, we're gonna go target plus 15
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm feeling something.
Carlos SAINZ: You want me to defend?
Engineer: Carlos, I suggest don't lose time unless you think you can hold him up for several laps.
Alexander ALBON: There's something definitely wrong with the brakes. I am absolutely smashing the pedal.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: And the stop and behind is not a threat, is on 39.4.
Lewis HAMILTON: These guys so awesome
Lewis HAMILTON: Pace behind. So
Engineer: Valtteri 39.3, gap is at 11.6
Engineer: OK, so next car behind you is Nico now, so Nico 2 seconds behind you, let's not hold him up. So Nico 1.7 seconds behind you.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK,
Engineer: I
Daniel RICCIARDO: should have my DRS on the main straight. Good for that, we
Engineer: also don't want to lose too much time, we can still do some work in this race.
Engineer: OK Lewis, so get your head down, we are going to be extending, so look at how the box, these rear tyres were shot.
Lewis HAMILTON: My head is down man, the tyres are good.
Nico HULKENBERG: What did you do to the air balance?
Engineer: We made no change, Niko. No change.
Nico HULKENBERG: Somehow I'm struggling now on this size.
Engineer: Please repeat, Niko.
Nico HULKENBERG: Kind of struggling on this size now.
Engineer: Copy that, Niko.
Sebastian VETTEL: My wheels are falling off now.
Engineer: Battle was a 38.8, Leclerc switched onto the medium.
Engineer: And we worry about Hamilton going wrong, Hamilton lap time 8.8
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, it's gonna be difficult to pass this guy's
Engineer: The
Carlos SAINZ: tire is not very good. You
Engineer: are the lead car to have pitted
Max VERSTAPPEN: Dias, feel okay?
Engineer: Understood Max, keep pushing. Doing a good job here.
Engineer: Okay, so we're boxing the slab and we are retiring the car.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, understood, box.
Engineer: M-Box, Sebastian M-Box.
Engineer: And we need you to push, push this lap, push.
Engineer: Press and hold overtake early to get Gasly
Engineer: We've got an OK. We have seen it.
Engineer: Box, stop the car now. Stop the car.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yes, ma'am, yes.
Engineer: We've got Vettel, parked the car at turn 15, just to be on standby.
Lewis HAMILTON: Stannis has been OK, generally had a little bit of understeer.
Engineer: OK copy, we're ready for you.
Engineer: So you are in the lead of the race, just respect that delta, so you are on the soft tyre, we have 25 laps to go, Vettel made it to lap 26.
Sebastian VETTEL: Bring back the f***ing
Engineer: V12s.
Engineer: So you're doing good on managing everything. We'll get this tire to the end. You'll get a good temp buildup after the restart, and we'll get the rears to the end. Okay, you have Sainz ahead, Norris behind. Their tires are seven laps older.
Lewis HAMILTON: What time is
Engineer: it
Lewis HAMILTON: out to?
Engineer: So we are all on soft.
Engineer: You are 13 seconds behind the pack, ahead of you. Lapped cars are now being allowed to overtake up at the front.
Lewis HAMILTON: Is
Engineer: that
Lewis HAMILTON: a Ferrari still behind us?
Engineer: Yep, the field has yet to compress, pretty much everyone took that safety car
Engineer: And next lap around there will be DRS.
Engineer: Gap to Valtteri at 1.3, lookalike at 0.8 behind him.
Engineer: said Norris 15 lap hold option tyre
Engineer: And let's go Strat Mode 7, we'll do the saving later when we're a bit more comfortable, Valtteri 2.2 behind.
Engineer: And let's go Strat Mode 7, we'll do the saving later when we're a bit more comfortable, Valtteri 2.2 behind.
Engineer: Keep this pace up, Max. It's really solid.
Engineer: We're going to lift off at 10-13 for Rears.
Engineer: Got 0.9. He will have the RS
Engineer: You are half a second quicker than Magneton
Engineer: Lucy we can just go back into Strat 7, Valtteri under a lot of pressure Leave
Lewis HAMILTON: me, leave me to it buddy
Engineer: You're getting close to Sainz's DRS. Albon's getting close to yours. You're doing a great job.
Lewis HAMILTON: Do I need to pick up the pace?
Engineer: If we can just hold this gap for the moment that's fine, I'll update you if Laguerre Pass is boundary.
Engineer: So guys, ahead on softer, struggling, maximum push now. No liftoff, no brake saving.
Engineer: Cap 1.1, if you go HPP1, set position 3, you have 5 pushes.
Engineer: You can do this, Nico. You can do this.
Engineer: Max, we're losing an abnormal amount of time at turn 13. Anything that we can help you out with, or at least let us know your problems and we'll see if we can help you out. I
Max VERSTAPPEN: don't know, I don't know.
Engineer: To
Max VERSTAPPEN: where are you comparing?
Engineer: That's to Lewis.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, there are different components as
Engineer: well. Yeah, as I was saying, if you have a particular balance issue, let me know, we'll see if we can sort it. Otherwise, if you're happy, all good.
Engineer: Okay, Lando Magnussen is the car in front. He's struggling. Let's go get him.
Engineer: You can use energy twice a lap, but just for two laps. Norris still four behind. I
Sergio PEREZ: hope you like that one, man.
Engineer: Checo, we never had a doubt. Albon, three ahead.
Engineer: Now this is a really good lap. Let's stabilize the car with red A5. The main time to find is in the middle sector. Focus on carrying the minimum.
Charles LECLERC: Give me everything you have if there's anything more copy
Engineer: the clerk asking for max power
Engineer: Six laps to go at the end of this one. It's not over yet, mate.
Engineer: And Lewis we think Verstappen will get a free stop at the end so he may go for fastest lap.
Engineer: And Lando we've checked everything is fine with the car head down concentration. Let's do this
Engineer: I
Nico HULKENBERG: feel like I'm losing some engine performance, do you copy that?
Engineer: Copy that Nico and that's a firm we have, it's just stable Nico so it shouldn't get any worse.
Charles LECLERC: Can we cool down next lap, more or less cool down, to
Engineer: push for the fastest lap? So we are stopping behind is at 6.6 What
Charles LECLERC: is the fastest lap?
Engineer: 36.3, 36.3 It is maybe doable, so I
Charles LECLERC: will try at least.
Engineer: Am
Lewis HAMILTON: I going to need to go again? We
Engineer: don't think so. One more lap so Verstappen didn't take the opportunity.
Engineer: Atlanta this is great we've broken DRS to Hulk behind
Engineer: Get in there Lewis! What a race! What an absolute awesome drive there, man. That's the race win and fastest lap. That's a mighty fine race pace there mate. Super strong. P1, P2 for the Silver Arrows.
Lewis HAMILTON: What an effort guys, what a great,
Engineer: what
Lewis HAMILTON: an incredible job. Thank you so much everyone. That's exactly what we needed.
Engineer: We
Lewis HAMILTON: never give up.
Carlos SAINZ: But you know what came to my mind? Go-go squeeze!
Engineer: They don't want
Lewis HAMILTON: any of this. Come
Engineer: on!
Alexander ALBON: Yep, thank you guys, thank you everyone. Sorry about the situation at the weekend, but thank you for everything.
Engineer: Good job Alex, good recovery from the pit lane to P5, that's pretty decent, so pretty decent pace in the end there as well, well done.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, good job. It's my bad. I should have been ahead of a couple, at least the Perez or the 4th India, whatever it is. I should have been ahead of Eamon, ahead of Magnussen, so it's my bad. But apart from that, good job this weekend. Good improvements, so on to...
Engineer: And Lando your radio timed out towards the end. I think you said looking forward to sushi in Japan, right?
Lando NORRIS: Well, I mean if you want me to to be ill terminally terminally ill Then sushi it is
Engineer: Well done, Checo. Great job. P7, well done.
Sergio PEREZ: Good job, guys. We were a bit unlucky there with the safety car, but still we managed to recover and score good points.
Engineer: Yep, copy that, Checo. Yep. Yeah, agree there. Well done. Take the pick up, please.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: So you'll be p9 p9 Kevin's you lost one position because the penalty you finished p9 because of your laps at the end You pulled it out and beat Hulkenberg by a second fantastic way to hold on.
Engineer: This is going to thank you very much Which if you wouldn't have a stupid? idiotic Steward we will be a thanks. Thanks a great job guys fantastic. You know, thanks Kevin great job in driving. Thank you
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, thanks, buddy
Engineer: You know who is who is
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