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Team radio transcript

Singapore Grand Prix 2019: Practice 3 team radio

34 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Singapore Grand Prix 2019, across 12 drivers. Valtteri BOTTAS had the most, with 5.

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: So bike point find, two burnouts, first gear launch.

  2. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Work the tires, work the tires.

  3. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: And just confirming we'll go diff mid 3 diff mid 3

  4. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: And adjust your balaclava, adjust your microphone, have a look at your tie temps, cool your ears.

  5. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: So we don't have GPS at the moment so keep an eye if there's any traffic

  6. Antonio GIOVINAZZIAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: Over the line, charge on, charge on. Yeah,

    Antonio GIOVINAZZI: rear is gone already.

    Engineer: So cool down as much as possible and then we try another time-lapse.

  7. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: We are losing just at turns one two and three the rest is fine

  8. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: And we need to maximize full throttle maximize full throttle

  9. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Kvyat's just boxed, he let out some smoke, possibly some oil on the track, but there's no flags yet or warnings. Okay, and rear temps and pressures are on the low side of this package.

  10. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: And did you feel the track was slippy? I don't know, maybe a little bit, but 10

    Valtteri BOTTAS: -11.

    Engineer: Yeah, we thought for sure after 10-14.

  11. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: And you were target plus three. Initial throttle was good and shift timing was better. And launch map off is okay. Raikkonen first car time lap, 13 seconds.

  12. Pierre GASLYRed Bull

    Engineer: Shape 5, Shape 5 You were ISO Sector 1 to Danny, on half a tenth faster than Danny Sector 2 He didn't close the lap, he had a problem Engine 6, position 3 for performance Ricardo behind, fast start lap Engine 6, position 3

  13. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: A lot of misfire during that lap, a lot of misfire.

    Engineer: Copy.

  14. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: There's currently yellow flags turn 2021 I'll update you

  15. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: and there is debris on the track it's you need to stay to the hard right as you come towards the towards turn 22 hard right that's it

  16. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: So VSC will stay out. There's debris on the track 20-21, so they're going to recover that, and I'll just tell you where it is.

  17. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Engineer: And can we go to throttle 7 please, that's 3 o'clock on the multifunction, throttle 7.

  18. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: So if you can try to work some temperature into the front tires in particular now and also brakes Nico also brakes

  19. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: Miko, how much of a feel do you have for the car?

    Nico HULKENBERG: A one lap feel, it was okay, I

    Engineer: would

    Nico HULKENBERG: have liked to do another lap obviously. Yeah, so we

    Engineer: can go out and do another lap on these but then we'll be down to about a five minute turnaround on the last run.

  20. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: There'll be two burnouts and a launch, remember the slightly higher target.

  21. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: disregard via temperatures

  22. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: We need to sort the Velcro again on my belts, just the return of the belt is still a bit flapping around a bit.

    Engineer: Copy, understood.

  23. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Yeah, pretty good Carlos. Corner speed similar to yesterday. Good gain compared to yesterday in turn 21 as you might expect. And still a little bit to find on the straights which we understand.

  24. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: So if you're going for double cool down there's an option to change flap in the box or if you're happy let us know

  25. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: So just got Stroll coming now, next car is Giovannazzi.

  26. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: Okay, so watch for Leclerc, Leclerc starting to push now, just let Leclerc through, he's four behind, three behind, two, one, watch for Leclerc.

  27. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: So let us know if you want to do starts or try to take another lap. I suggest you do the starts. Yeah, starts. OK, so practice quality in lap. Max speed 180.

  28. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay Carl, so remember it's early g-lat turn 1. Consider torque 7 after turn 5, and the approach you did last time in 18-19 was good.

  29. Nico HULKENBERGRenault

    Engineer: Break temperature up please Nico if possible, break temperature.

  30. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: OK, we'll have a bit more full throttle to recharge the battery, a bit more.

  31. Antonio GIOVINAZZIAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: So, focus braking turn 1, and don't slow down turn 3, don't slow down too much turn 3, the rest is looking fine.

  32. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: You are purple in the middle sector, to Leclerc, down 2.5 tenths, sector 1, practically zero, sector 3.

    Lewis HAMILTON: Just repeat that, so up in the middle sector, but down in the

    Engineer: first and last. Mainly first sector, it's practically zero, final sector.

  33. Pierre GASLYRed Bull

    Engineer: Synchronize first gear when you can, synchronize first gear when you can

  34. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: And you were plus four to the higher target. Initial throttle was good.

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