Hungarian Grand Prix 2020: Practice 1 team radio
94 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2020, across 18 drivers. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 11.
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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 11 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 11 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 10 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 9 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 9 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 3 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
- Robert KUBICA · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And it's an Aero P3 six-gear cruise from the exit of turn three. Magnussen coming past, there's a big gap behind him.
Engineer: Stop on the marks, mode 3, pre-launch rev check, and switch off.
Engineer: Okay, and then after turn seven if you can try to target the same speed again, please Okay, and an arrow P for 50 LP 450 and we're boxing this up
Engineer: And it's an Aero P3 6-gear cruise from the exit of Turn 3. Magnussen coming past, there's a big gap behind him.
Engineer: Stop on the marks, mode 3, pre-launch rev check, and switch off.
Engineer: Okay, and then after turn seven if you can try to target the same speed again, please Okay, and an arrow P for 50 LP 450 and we're boxing this up
Engineer: Engine 11, Engine 11, Position 9, Position 9.
Engineer: Only car on track is Verstappen at Turn 8.
Engineer: So track is still all clear only we're stopping out there
Engineer: OK, recharge on please Max. Keep up the pace on the wind. Keep up the pace on the wind. And box.
Engineer: And clutch position was shallow, 3%.
Engineer: 5.5, two burnouts and a launch.
Engineer: Okay, one burnout, then mode race start. Okay, K2+, K2+, we'll just build tire temp all around.
Engineer: The wind is pretty calm, looks like slight tailwind out of turn 1.
Lewis HAMILTON: Let's drive through, if I can, for some weight.
Engineer: Affirm, yeah, we'll be ready for you. You've got 10 seconds behind to Sainz, he's on an outlast.
Engineer: Sir Lewis, that was a 17.4, still P1, suggesting a double cooldown this time, drive through. Copy. So there was a sometime entry of turn 1, nearly a 10th, everything else is good. You have 3 purple. Yeah, copy,
Valtteri BOTTAS: brake 2 early, turn 1.
Engineer: So let me know if you want flap adjust, otherwise we're driving through.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Flap is good for now. I have some understeer middle of turn 14, and the rest is pretty good.
Lance STROLL: Brad, what do you think on this continuous pushing is best?
Engineer: Yes, copy that Lance. Yeah, we'll do that
Engineer: So Lance, we'll push until we've hit the peak temperature and then we'll have a back-off lap after that.
Engineer: Push again or back off your choice
Engineer: Okay, we can go K2, K2 for the back off.
Engineer: and we suggest do not use left hand toggle for turn 14
Engineer: Tires are cold so push on the outlap Max, push on the outlap.
Engineer: There's a little bit more spitting in the pit lane now. Do you want another go?
Engineer: Suggest no left hand toggle turn one. No left hand toggle turn one.
Engineer: OK, we have trot 2, trot 2, 3 o'clock on the multifunction, and then when you stop in the box it will be a pre-start ref check please, pre-start ref check.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, quite a lot of traffic in this lap, OK?
Engineer: Copy. So there's time for one more. It's still going to be tricky with traffic. Leclerc should be starting a lap five seconds behind.
Engineer: Good lap dude, good lap, so we'll box at the end of this lap, so CSL5 out of turn 3. Hamilton has backed out, Hamilton's backed out, so we'll take CSL5 out of turn 3. Sorry I did it out of turn 1 for some reason. That's ok dude, we'll get it on the next run.
Engineer: East
Lewis HAMILTON: Isles are dead.
Engineer: OK, copy this, I'll have your pick confirmed.
Engineer: We'll need to do FS4, 5th gear, FS4, 5th gear, track clear behind.
Engineer: Multifunction a orange out of turn 11 multifunction a orange out of turn 11
Lance STROLL: copy
Engineer: i'm
Sergio PEREZ: too close to the ice man yeah
Engineer: copy that checker finish this lap finish this lap and we'll just do a limiter on the next in lap
Engineer: Okay, so we're the first car out, so no traffic around, no traffic.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: K-mode slow, one or two burnouts, N-mode ready to start.
Engineer: might not find one burnout.
Engineer: Tracks will be clear alongside, first car on the timelapse will be Bottas, he's between 13 and 14 now, Magnussen behind him.
Engineer: You are plus three initial throttle slightly low drive out good
Engineer: tires are good so get a good braking into 12 good braking into 12
Engineer: So two burnouts and a first gear start, please.
Engineer: It's a really good third sector, yeah, good lap.
Engineer: Okay Carlos, so Lando did a 17.5. Time to find is 8, 9 and 11. You were 1.5 tenths ahead at the braking point for 8.
Engineer: OK, so Valtteri, just with P1, just 0.04s ahead of your soft time. In terms of sectors, that medium tyre versus your hard tyre, it's 0.2 sector 1, 0.3 in the middle, 0.2 in the final sector.
Lewis HAMILTON: Is that strat 3 lap?
Engineer: You can take strat 3 lap, here's with strat 3.
Engineer: brake balance minus one suggestion
Engineer: and suggest orange e4 orange e4
Engineer: let's do one more in these settings please let's do one more of these settings
Engineer: Good improvement through 8, 9 and turn 11.
Lando NORRIS: We're spinning a little bit all the way around the back of the truck too.
Engineer: We also had a split in front brake temperatures, which is why it pulled a bit braking for turn one. So brake temperatures are okay now, but keep temperature in the fronts.
Daniel RICCIARDO: So pretty pretty similar comments to the previous run
Engineer: Okay, understood. Well, we got some time. Can you go to throttle 2 throttle 2? That's 3 o'clock on the multifunction You clear from traffic behind
Engineer: Unbox this lab box
Engineer: Track is clear behind, we'll need to do constant speeds out of turn 2, we will be FS4 5th gear, FS4 5th gear.
Engineer: OK, so that's a P1, a Valtteri P2, nine hundredths behind. Suggest we box and we can get on with the program.
Nicholas LATIFI: Do I close the lap?
Engineer: It's
Nicholas LATIFI: not going to be quicker. Close the lap, close the lap. On the slow lap. Am I doing a V-limb? No. V-limb or no? Negative.
Engineer: Charge on, charge on, multi B10 position 5, multi B10 position 5.
Engineer: OK, box, box, pace is good, as expected, so for you, Formula 1 car in Hungary, it's a very good session so far, mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Quite a lot of search so we need to fix that
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Mode slow to burnouts, and
Engineer: mode race start.
Max VERSTAPPEN: And I brought an RDN tip.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: You are target plus three, initial throttle slightly low, drive out good, we are box this lap. Box now, stay right of bollard, and I'd like buy point find, three burnouts, and another launch please. And we'll do it in scenario ten, scenario ten.
Engineer: So start to a bit of rear left management start a bit of rear left management
Engineer: Sock 10, sock 10.
Engineer: And yellow G9 please, yellow G9.
Engineer: Sock 9, Sock 9, Strolls on this tyre, he's been doing 122.4 I've opened up the greening a bit
Lewis HAMILTON: These guys are on long runs
Engineer: I think everyone's probably gonna be on a long run
Lance STROLL: Yes, they're raining. What can I do about this? Switches aren't going to help this.
Engineer: That's all you'll have in the race, so torque five.
Engineer: Is there a decent gap somewhere around me? You should come in for another start, Hamilton behind. OK, copy.
Engineer: And default Charlie Charlie X. Default Charlie Charlie X. That's 13 on each side.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, there he is, he's straight
Engineer: Copy, so Carlos we'd still like to do a launch in the pit exit
Engineer: We have four time-lapse available, four time-lapse.
Engineer: You can use rears to rotate the car rears to rotate the car
Engineer: You run profiles very similar to other cars on the same tyre all suffering similar
Engineer: There's still risk of rain, so I'll just keep going on this
Engineer: Both McLarens, same tyre as you, same lap time as you
Engineer: Stay and go race, push till exit 11, then call and box.
Engineer: Okay, temperatures are still relevant so I think try to get a read for the pit lane entry It's going to be a practice pit stop so focus on your marks before you switch off
Lando NORRIS: Spitting a little bit more around the back.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: So Danny also doing 21.5 when he gets a clear lap. No other good comparisons.
Engineer: And let's have scenario 10, scenario 10.
Robert KUBICA: Yeah, okay, I was watching you okay
Daniil KVYAT: The understeer just gets worse and worse
Engineer: Engine braking 9 and N36 engine braking 9 and N36. This is last lap
Engineer: We're boxed to SLAP, boxed to SLAP. Looks
Carlos SAINZ: like the greening has cleared a bit now.
Engineer: Copy, we're boxed to SLAP anyway, it's the checkered flag, so boxed to SLAP.
Daniil KVYAT: Here we are in the rain.
Engineer: A reminder, CSL position 4 out of turn 11.
Engineer: If possible, could we have an aero P4 5th gear cruise, exit turn 11?
Engineer: Box now, Kevin, box now. Practice pit stop.
Engineer: Yeah dude, just hold fire, debrief in, cos the guys are doing an output stop I'm dying for ****** to wait, I go Copy
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, I'm boxing, this is not good.
Engineer: Max, I think just from a data point of view it would be good to stay out just for one more lap, understand if it's not optimal.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, no, it's not optimal, it's bad mate, and it's raining, so I'm boxing.
Lance STROLL: Hey, he didn't get out of the way he completely blocked me
Engineer: I'm a
Max VERSTAPPEN: f***ing blind a**hole, honestly.
George RUSSELL: Traffic's been a f***ing nightmare the last two runs.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Something's wrong with the steering.
Engineer: OK, alright, we're checking, checking, go to mode push, mode push.
Engineer: Still strange Kevin still feels weird Yeah
Engineer: If anything, pace is a little quicker than we were expecting.
Engineer: Quite a high deg out there on this soft tyre.
Sebastian VETTEL: More rain now,
Engineer: we're on turn 4
Engineer: That guy walked just in front Yeah, the Haas guy just walked right in front at the end
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