Spanish Grand Prix 2019: Qualifying team radio
50 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Spanish Grand Prix 2019, across 16 drivers. 44 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 9.
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 · 9 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Renault · 4 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Robert KUBICA · Williams · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Daniil KVYAT · Toro Rosso · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
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Engineer: Ok, Robert, we're fessed out.
Engineer: So you can lean on the tyres a bit, lean on the tyres, tyre temp on the lower side. You'll need to sink 8th gear down the back straight, sink 8th gear down the back straight and then a good braking into turn 10, good braking into turn 10.
Engineer: Let's go. Okay, Kimi, you will have nobody behind, only Antonio in phase with you, obviously.
Engineer: OK, Nico, front wing's coming off.
Engineer: So I got a yellow turn 4, Niko has gone off the yellow turn 4 with a boat to slap
Engineer: Watch for some debris at turns four and five. Debris turns four and five.
Lewis HAMILTON: I go in second today.
Engineer: Thanks Ben.
Engineer: Ok Carlos, good lap, that is P4 at the moment, currently P4, 10 cars have set laps, suggest to box this lap, box this lap, well we have to box this lap Yeah,
Carlos SAINZ: traffic with Hamilton in the last sector, lost maybe 1 tenth, 2 tenths
Engineer: Copy
Engineer: A lot of traffic on my lap Copy that Lewis, so we'll box the end of the lap, we're happy with that time So P3 just two and a half tenths off Valtteri P1 And dish magic off Ferrari got in the way, turn 4
Lewis HAMILTON: Copy,
Engineer: look out
Engineer: And in the pit lane there will be a torque change in the pit lane?
Engineer: So to Valtteri, nine hundredths up on sector one, it's three tenths in the middle sector, zero final sector, so I think it's mainly the traffic, turns four five.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, so no threat from behind, we suggest to go up on different tree
Engineer: Focus on recharge where possible please Niko, and keep 7th gear, we will be doing another lap. Quite
Nico HULKENBERG: a lot of understeer, high medium speed.
Engineer: Copy that Niko, scenario 6 please, and SOC 5.
Lewis HAMILTON: Just check everything is good with the floor on both sides
Engineer: Copy, will be
Engineer: Okay, I'm afraid we are out of qualifying, Nico.
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George RUSSELL: Thanks once again everyone to get the car ready and apologies for a bit of a freak.
Robert KUBICA: I don't know what happened, but I have massive oversteer, I lost the car into turn 4, into turn 7, felt very weird.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Engineer: Seeing our Ferrari right behind.
Engineer: So Leclerc one second behind Vettel seven seconds behind Valtteri seven ahead
Engineer: The car will be a bit neutral with the tires.
Charles LECLERC: I lost something, what did you say? At first, I lost something, I think.
Engineer: Ok, we are checking the data, come back to you.
Charles LECLERC: I had quite a lot of understand the last sector.
Daniel RICCIARDO: okay so it wasn't particularly good putting it nicely
Engineer: The biggest delta across cars is turn one and turn four. Maybe we can do a little bit of flap off and then a little bit less rear temp so you can go a little slower in the last sector on the outlap.
Engineer: Okay, still in sync with everyone. How's the balance? What do you think about flap?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, just a bit oversteer, more than Q1, so. Okay.
Engineer: I
Daniel RICCIARDO: could still add another little bit of front wing.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Nico HULKENBERG: Damn, I'm sorry about that guys. I've actually hit 10th, but we struggle to hang on to it in the final sector with the rears dropping off.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that Nico. Tomorrow's another day.
Nico HULKENBERG: Good luck.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: target one sixteen point nine
Charles LECLERC: Tell me whatever you see of loss, tell me, so I know exactly how to push and I don't overpush. Tell me anything you know from the pit wall from now until I push.
Engineer: Okay, will do.
Engineer: OK, you're P10, Q3, well done!
Daniel RICCIARDO: Nice boys, nice!
Engineer: Dani, are you happy to stay on the plan used and then new for Q3?
Daniil KVYAT: Yes, because the used tire is still pretty good.
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Engineer: Okay Lando, we finished P11, finished P11 and box this lap, box this lap. We got pipped just at the very end there. Mate, you should be very, very pleased to be honest. That was a good effort in qualifying there.
Alexander ALBON: Sorry guys
Engineer: Ok Carlos, we've finished P13, cars eliminated are Lando, Albon, yourself, Raikkonen and Perez.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I'm sorry guys, not our day.
Engineer: It's ok Carlos, our day is tomorrow.
Engineer: Just keep dropping time, keep dropping time, plenty of space behind. Back is full.
Engineer: Behind you, Hamilton is just starting a time-lapse. He might come close to you at the end of the lap.
Engineer: OK, let's say box-box, I've got traffic with Ricciardo, 2 seconds, then Grosjean 5. You
Lewis HAMILTON: told me really late about Ricciardo.
Max VERSTAPPEN: There's a lot of gravel out of 12 into 13.
Engineer: How was the balance?
Max VERSTAPPEN: It was ok, same.
Engineer: Ok, front wing?
Max VERSTAPPEN: We leave it.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Even that the track is ramping up in terms of temps, suggestion is to back off more in the third sector. I'll leave it to you to judge more. Yeah, OK, copy. Like now it was perfect in terms of gap, so... Yeah, the last one was very good. Go for a repeat. Yeah, even two, three seconds less than that is still OK.
Engineer: All the cars around you will be on an outlap.
Engineer: Just look out for gravel in this region
Engineer: So waiting for the undercast to finish.
Engineer: And your pole position, three on the trot, well done mate. Yeah guys.
Sebastian VETTEL: Ok guys, sorry for the second run, I had quite a different balance to the first one, quite a big difference between the two sets, but it was important to squeeze out everything. Grazie a tutti, vediamo domani, facciamo una bella gara, dai!
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