Singapore Grand Prix 2019: Practice 1 team radio
31 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Singapore Grand Prix 2019, across 13 drivers. Carlos SAINZ had the most, with 4.
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 · 4 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: OK, so it will be two burnouts and a start please, so it will be first gear start.
Engineer: So a reminder for Aero P4 5th gear cruise please.
Engineer: and just a reminder DRS OFF for the first outlap
Engineer: Okay Carlos, so we're staying out, this is a once past. You should go to scenario 5 for the in-lap, scenario 5.
Engineer: Okay, let's do a start. Oh, you want to start in here also? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do a start.
Engineer: Yeah we've got 10 minutes, 10 minutes Lance. Until we go back out or you want me back in the car in 10 minutes? Until we go back out, 10 minutes until we go back out.
Lance STROLL: Okay.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, when you stop on position, you can do an all-drive test, and for that you need a K21.
Engineer: For the next lap we'll do constant speeds whilst we do the cool down.
Engineer: I can't see anything so I'm blind. Yeah, we know. With the under dash.
Engineer: Okay Carlos, that's P5. P5, you're the only guy on hard, most cars on medium.
Engineer: Same lap time as Sainz, and Kvyat's 0.3 quicker, so it looks in the window.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: The retardation on the brakes, it's really bad.
Engineer: Really bad, okay. Understood. All the way through the brake event or especially at the beginning?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: All the way.
Engineer: Okay, understood. We'll look into it.
Lewis HAMILTON: Just check that I've got nothing damaged on my car, signs need to be in the wall.
Engineer: OK copy, we'll have a look at the loads.
Engineer: Strat 8. All right so both Kubica and Perez ahead just complete the time lapse they'll be on slow laps expect your lap will be a fraction quicker. Russell behind also in phase and likewise Norris so all cars around you in phase don't be surprised if you are quicker.
Engineer: Cool the car, please, cool the car. Aero P4 5th gear cruise after turn 5.
Engineer: We've had eight cars have run soft. On medium, fastest medium runner is Kvyat, he's done a 43.3
Engineer: Okay Nico, same procedure on this lap, track will be clear when you go out.
Engineer: And still turn 11 minimum speed is the place to focus on, potentially back off turn 10 to achieve it.
George RUSSELL: Happy to abort at the end of a lap if needed.
Engineer: Yeah we should be able to complete one time lap, we should be able to complete one time lap and then a potential hard in lap just to keep the learning going.
George RUSSELL: The velcro on the belts are not sticking so when I'm braking the return of the belt is flying all over the place.
Engineer: OK, Valtteri, so that's P2, 41.9, Lewis still P1 on the soft, 41.4, so this tyre doesn't look a bad one, rear left surface temp is in error.
Engineer: Okay, so we'll go for a cool-down lap. So that's P1. Double cool-down. Affirm. So there was more overeating on that second lap, as you might have felt.
Engineer: Outlap prep was good last time round, just a suggestion if you can on the timelapse to try and limit slip out of turn 8 that's a particular one that will drive the tempter Go
George RUSSELL: again, how about turn 8?
Engineer: Turn 8, we seem to get a lot of wheel slip out of turn 8 on the timelapse and we think the track will improve by about 1.2 seconds, track improvement at 1.2
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, I couldn't activate the...
Engineer: Okay, yeah, understood. That's the spot where it is intermittent, so they're going to fix it after this session, but keep trying to use it, that's fine.
Engineer: I might make it, I pass to the left of the ball out but yeah,
Charles LECLERC: I
Engineer: don't have the choice anyway, I'm not going to stay on the first lane. Copy.
Engineer: So P12, Raman's P10, about 0.5 behind, but obviously the first sector from the first lap would be better, so if you put it all together it's a very similar lap time, so that's good.
Engineer: Okay 200, 200.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, copy. Where's the issue with the red flag? It's
Engineer: brought us in the barriers at turn 18.
Engineer: Okay, 200, 200. Is he okay? Yeah, he's okay. It was low speed.
Carlos SAINZ: do you think i will find traffic uh
Engineer: yeah carlos only four cars have left the pits so far behind you so you could meet some cars on outlaps difficult to be sure
Engineer: Okay Max, so feedback on the start. You were a little bit cautious on the throttle pickup on the clutch release, so just bear that in mind next time.
Engineer: So a high 48 is a good lap time, high 48.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Crews
Engineer: please.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Massive vibration.
Engineer: Copy, massive vibration.
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