United States Grand Prix 2019: Practice 3 team radio
24 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the United States Grand Prix 2019, across 10 drivers. 23 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Valtteri BOTTAS had the most, with 6.
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
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And radio check please.
Lando NORRIS: I'm moving up and down, side to side like a roller coaster.
Engineer: Thought you might say that at some point.
Engineer: All clear on exit and watch out for the bump.
Engineer: Tail on the run down to 12, so tail into 12.
Romain GROSJEAN: Okay brother, I need help. It's no rear end, I don't know if it's coming from what we had.
Engineer: But let me know if torque, ped or diff. Yes, we're looking at systems now. Hopefully the attempt should be more sensible for the next attempt.
Charles LECLERC: There's something wrong with the engine.
Engineer: Stop the car. Stop the car. Stop the car.
Lewis HAMILTON: Wait, wait, there's a car stopped.
Engineer: Yeah, copy. OK, let's switch it off. We've got VSC, we'll just wipe it out.
Engineer: Yeah, I think we'll have to box because they're not even close to clearing Leclerc's car. It's at 19.
Engineer: I mean, he stopped right at the opening, so it would have been... Yeah, they're clearing it now, and it's finally clear, unfortunately, so we'll just reset things and get going again. We'll go into QR1 now, okay, so we're just going to plug in quick, go to QR1 and go.
Engineer: Ok, how was the first lap? What was the main limitation?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Just understeer and low speed.
Engineer: High
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: speed is so much better than yesterday. Had a bit of traffic.
Engineer: And wind pretty gusty, so we can see gust of tailwind on the straight turning to 10-12.
Engineer: feel that it's like
Valtteri BOTTAS: giving up in the last sector you
Engineer: can take another lap
Engineer: Do you want me to go quite slow for the rears, so I don't feel like they're there? Slow for the rears, yes. Try slow for the rears.
Engineer: And for info, the last time-lapse has been deleted for track limits, you know why. Yeah, there was traffic and
Sebastian VETTEL: I lost the car.
Engineer: Yeah, we saw, we had a moment there.
Engineer: And on the previous lap we trigger the loop at 19, but the tyres were still on the red and white, so so far the time is standing.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, I don't know what the raising point was doing, it tried to block me, it stopped almost, I tried to go inside and it just turned in front of me.
Engineer: Yeah, that's the one, I didn't get it right yet. Affirm. Saving 13.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Main place to find time is still turn 1, just back off the braking a little bit, use the track and focus on the minimum.
Lando NORRIS: On the entry I can't see, it's so bumpy I can't see at all.
Romain GROSJEAN: Sorry, but it's not the same as yesterday.
Engineer: OK, understood, good luck.
Romain GROSJEAN: We're suffering with a lot of touching in 2, 3, 4. The rear end is not as good.
Engineer: I
Romain GROSJEAN: can understand the wind is a tiny bit different, but it's nowhere near planted as yesterday.
Engineer: So Lewis we've probably got time for one more lap if you need it You
Lewis HAMILTON: told me a bit late for that, I know I would have cooled down a bit earlier Always need more laps
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, John, the DRS is not working.
Engineer: Copy, Antonio. We will check.
Engineer: There's a little bit of space on the entry, but it's more about the braking. Alright, yeah, the entry I can't see, I just have to drive and hope that I go somewhere.
Lewis HAMILTON: Small improvements? Yeah,
Engineer: copy Lewis, I improved the sector 1 and sector 3.
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