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Team radio transcript

Hungarian Grand Prix 2020: Practice 3 team radio

50 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2020, across 16 drivers. Carlos SAINZ 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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Tracks should be green.

  2. Kevin MAGNUSSENHaas

    Engineer: And you can go multi GX3, multi GX3, and okay to push, okay to push. You can have a look at the track condition around there.

  3. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Romain GROSJEAN: 11, 11

    Engineer: loud and clear in CSL 4, position 4.

  4. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: And Kimi, you can select Multi-B, Shift, 4.

  5. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: Ok, you have a lot of margin to cool down your front during this charge lap, you have nobody behind.

  6. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: You're still a bit on the cold side at turn 1 starting a lap so don't worry to overshoot the target

  7. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: Okay give me more charge and we can do at least two more push.

  8. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: Ok Kimi, we are still on the cool side on the tires, we suggest some weaving after turn 11.

  9. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: Okay, the battery should be just okay if we have some full throttle now.

  10. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Engineer: We're okay to continue Keep warming up. You need to go out to keep warming up. We miss plus 12 front plus 10 rear

  11. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Engineer: And go in, go in, stay within the delta. That's a good lap. Alpha second quicker than George. Sector one, two tenths quicker. Sector two, alpha tenths. Sector three, 2.5 tenths. Good lap.

  12. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Alexander ALBON: We can't get the, uh, we can't get the, uh, gear sync, Nate.

    Engineer: Copy.

  13. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: And clutch position was on target.

  14. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: okay so there's P1 Verstappen on the medium 17-0 Lewis has aborted suggesting single cooldown you're in sync with the cars around you car behind on an out lap no cars unless behind you got Lewis starting a lap now it's 17 seconds 16 seconds

  15. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Main lost to Valtteri, minimum speed turn 11, so just down in sector 3 by 8 hundredths.

  16. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Keep me posted on tight condition max. So we'll obviously monitor that data as well.

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I think it's okay so far

    Engineer: Understood

  17. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Ok Carlos, that's P13. The big loss is obviously Turn 2. The rest of the lap is not too bad.

  18. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: A little bit still to find in the two high-speed corners.

  19. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Purple C4, position 9. Purple C4, 9.

  20. Daniil KVYATAlphaTauri

    Engineer: Ciao John, ciao John

    Daniil KVYAT: Everything feels so cold, like tires, brakes Is there anything wrong?

    Engineer: We are in the working range Danny If you don't think you are going to learn much, we box for a setup adjustment

    Daniil KVYAT: Yes

    Engineer: Copy, box, box And the torque 4, torque 4 Nobody is pushing behind

  21. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Time to gain is turn 9, and turn 11, turn 9, turn 11, Norris, 2 seconds.

    Alexander ALBON: Yeah but, you say that, I have traffic every time I go through these corners.

    Engineer: Yeah, understood, that's okay.

  22. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Carlos SAINZ: I

    Engineer: think it mostly looks okay now you're losing is all in sector 3 so compared to Lando who did a 1.22.9 you're 1 tenths up at the breaking point for turn 12 you lose a tenth and a half turn 12 tenth and a half turn 13 and 2 tenths turn 14

  23. Esteban OCONRenault

    Esteban OCON: What the hell?

    Engineer: That was unfortunate, Esteban. Otherwise a very good lap.

  24. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Front tyre temperatures are pretty good. Warm the front right if you can in 12.

  25. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Engineer: That was a better lap, sector 1, half a tenth quicker, and we lost a bit sector 2 and 3, but very similar, so you are a tenth away from George, but that's a good job so far, mate.

  26. Antonio GIOVINAZZIAlfa Romeo

    Antonio GIOVINAZZI: How about you Euron? Taliesin 3 has need to be gone, but how about you?

    Engineer: Copy, we do one more push then.

  27. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Engineer: Practice pit entry, practice pit entry, careful white line and peak limiter, this set is done so you can practice it hard.

  28. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Engineer: Copy Pitlane, copy Pitlane. Flap adjust, yes, no?

    Nicholas LATIFI: Yes, yeah, I would say like plus one and a half. Copy

    Engineer: that.

  29. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: And it will be mode push for last corner, mode push.

  30. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: Anyone pushing around us?

    Engineer: Negative, negative, we have Bottas Hamilton hot lap behind new tyre

  31. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Lufthansa update, can you please?

    Engineer: Yeah, so at the moment yourself P1 15.7, Sebastian 16.3

  32. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Nicholas LATIFI: I spawned, I spawned. Car's okay.

    Engineer: Look at that, be careful when you rejoin. Be careful when you rejoin. Vettel is coming, Ghazi is coming, 10-12. Rejoin safely.

  33. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: So still at turn 4, main place to work on. Yeah,

    Valtteri BOTTAS: it's neutral there.

    Engineer: Affirm.

  34. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Hello Carlos, keep scenario 5, keep scenario 5, more data for Renault.

  35. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: All the cars behind you on an outlap.

  36. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: Leclerc behind, on a cool down lap I think, he might be pushing, Leclerc might be pushing, 3 seconds behind.

    Alexander ALBON: You have to tell me earlier Mike so I can sync my gears down that straight.

    Engineer: Yeah sorry mate, he might be on an in lap, he is going fast and slow. So all cars behind now on out laps.

  37. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Suggest silver entry 6. Silver entry 6.

  38. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: So Carlos, time loss a bit in sector 1. That's both turns 1 and 2. Turn 1 braking, turn 2 exit compared to Lando. And then there's a little bit still in turn 11. Lando now just a partial lift, no brakes turn 11.

  39. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: That's a good step in turn 1 and turn 11

  40. Daniel RICCIARDORenault

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, we exceeded track limits turn 4 that last lap Yep, yeah, I messed up. Yeah, pretty different Bit

    Engineer: more

    Daniel RICCIARDO: limited by Amnesty and then

  41. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: We're definitely boxing now aren't we, because of code 2.

    Engineer: Yep that's correct we are boxing now, code 2 understood.

  42. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: spitting a little bit

  43. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: Wake up the brakes.

  44. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Alexander ALBON: Is the car okay? I'm getting like weird vibrations starting my laps.

    Engineer: Copy, we're looking into it.

  45. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Engineer: How are the vibrations?

    Alexander ALBON: Is it coming through the steering, the brakes? They're still there. It feels like front lift.

  46. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: Okay, low on power, low on power.

  47. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: and we have tailwind into turn one tailwind turn one

  48. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: It's unbelievable, I can't get 8 gears synced.

  49. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I'm understeering too much.

  50. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: That

    Lewis HAMILTON: battery pack out, my glove just fell out.

    Engineer: Okay, copy.

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