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Team radio transcript

British Grand Prix 2020: Qualifying team radio

32 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the British Grand Prix 2020, across 15 drivers. 31 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lando NORRIS 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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Everything alright? I think so, keep an eye on the floor and everything and loads on the floor bottomed out pretty badly on the exit curb Understood

  2. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, that's impeding, they should have gone out of the way.

  3. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: I think so, keep an eye on the floor and everything and loads on the floor, bottomed out pretty badly on the exit curb Understood

  4. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, both laps had ups and downs, did lose the rear in the second lap, in the first sector, but yeah, bits of traffic here and there, so I was able to improve a bit at the end, but yeah, I think the first time lap is the better one. Yep, okay, understood.

  5. Nico HULKENBERGRacing Point

    Nico HULKENBERG: Something went wrong there.

    Engineer: In

    Nico HULKENBERG: 13 somehow I'm getting into the lower gear. You check 13 please. This is the second time in a row I'm not going down to 6th gear.

  6. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: And let's have SOC 4, SOC 4.

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, SOC 4, I derated, guys. You sure?

    Engineer: Yeah, we've made some changes in the back room, Carlos. We've made some changes, don't panic.

  7. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Nicholas LATIFI: Sparno, Sparno Sorry guys

  8. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Nicholas LATIFI: Spun, I spun Sorry guys

  9. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: That f***ing Renault just went... F***ing idiot. He was so close, he slowed down. Mod charge, mod charge. Yeah, I lost the front, go on, please.

  10. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: I definitely backed off.

    Engineer: You

    George RUSSELL: can see it on the throttle trace on the entry and I was well in control.

  11. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Carlos, a few cars are running the medium, so that is Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari on Leclerc and the racing points. Medium cars seem to be looking for a faster out lap.

  12. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Tower's okay, tower's okay. Okay, copy.

  13. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: How was your lap? Question, how was your lap?

    Alexander ALBON: Not great, just lacking so much stability in the low speed.

  14. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: Traffic in the last sector with Hamilton. Unacceptable. Copy. Unacceptable.

  15. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, struggled a bit more through, basically, I had a light rear through 9, but then quite a bit of understeer through 11. I don't know, did the wind change? Yeah, so I had quite a moment in turn 9, just

    Engineer: lost the rear quite quickly. Yeah, it does seem to be a bit more windy there. Same happened to Esteban.

  16. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: So,

    Engineer: we are P11 and it's identical lap time to Stroll, but he did it first. Yeah, it's pretty

    Pierre GASLY: challenging, but anyway, I'm confident for tomorrow, so...

  17. Esteban OCONRenault

    Esteban OCON: I don't know what happened there, there was no grip on my side

    Engineer: Yeah, copy that Esteban

  18. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Who is in the top 10 with the medium?

    Engineer: Bottas, Hamilton, Verstappen, Stroll and yourself.

  19. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Okay mate, we ended up P12 today, P12.

  20. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Get that tire right go to the left like, you know to the other side because so hard for me to drive out

  21. Lance STROLLRacing Point

    Lance STROLL: Ferrari, very unsafe at least.

  22. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay Lando, on a used tyre that was a really good lap.

  23. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Get in there Lewis. That's it mate. That was an awesome recovery Wow, that was an up-and-down qualy That

    Lewis HAMILTON: was good bro. Super happy with that mate

  24. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  25. Esteban OCONRenault

    Esteban OCON: What the hell is that? They just jump in the queue like this. Dangerous.

  26. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Very good, man. Well done. Good job.

    Lando NORRIS: Gracias, amigo.

  27. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, little moment out of the last corner.

    Engineer: Yep, hard lap, that was a, that's a solid lap max. Nice job, that's P3.

  28. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: This lap felt good.

    Engineer: Verstappen lap time in front 25.3

  29. Sebastian VETTELFerrari

    Engineer: Yeah, VIN deleted that time, on target, turn 9.

    Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, I lost the front completely.

  30. Esteban OCONRenault

    Engineer: Okay, you are P9, Esteban, you are P9. Sorry, you are P10, Vettel has just picked you. Apologies. So Vettel is 0.13 seconds quicker than you, ahead of you. Then it's Danny on a 26.0, then Sainz on a 25.96. Sounds like Vettel's lap time has been deleted. So yeah, you are P9 now, you are P9.

  31. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: What was the gap? So you got 3 tenths to Valtteri in P2 and then just over a second

  32. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Engineer: Nice one, nice one boys. Sorry, P8 at the moment, still one car, ok P8, final one. Ok, medium, nice one. Nice lap that last one, it's all very close.

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