Hungarian Grand Prix 2020: Race team radio
168 radio messages were recorded during race at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2020, across 20 drivers. 166 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON had the most, with 27.
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 · 27 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 22 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 19 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 13 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 10 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 9 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 8 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 8 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 8 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 7 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 7 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 6 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 5 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Ok, you can push.
Engineer: The car in front is on extreme all the rest on inters
Alexander ALBON: There's no standing water
Engineer: Wraith up, can see that. No dry patches. Copy, so dry through, unless you want the flap change.
Lewis HAMILTON: Was that X? There's no grip out here
Engineer: Suggest trying brake 4, brake 4
Engineer: And the clutch position was 3% shallow from the dry target, 3% shallow from the dry target.
Engineer: So just watch for debris turn 12 onwards, Verstappen trying to get back to the pits with damage.
Lewis HAMILTON: Mad Dog, which do you think is the right target?
Engineer: Hi Lewis, we'll be sticking with the dry target, second gear.
Lewis HAMILTON: Okay.
Engineer: Radio check next.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Radio check.
Engineer: Loud and clear. OK, so the formation lap procedures do not change.
Engineer: OK, so the formation lap procedures do not change. Bit limits are in for the dummy grid launch. And a static bipod on fire once you're on the ground will carry out your dummy grid launch. Mode 12 before turn 1. Mode 12 before turn 1. As many times as you can during the formation lap between first and second gears for clutch landing. And try to confirm your gear sync before turn 4. Turn 4. From the back of the grid, or P20, we're looking for two burnouts. And as always perform the extra ramp rather than coating down into the pit box. Stationary time just over 30 seconds today.
Engineer: How
Lewis HAMILTON: many burnouts do we need to do on these tyres?
Engineer: Lewis, the suggestion is five.
Engineer: So, make sure you work on the tyres, on the formation that's important to concentrate on that from the off, working on those tyres and the formation of that.
Lance STROLL: Alright. If you see anything with lines from our competitors at
Engineer: the
Lance STROLL: beginning of the race, or someone is obviously quicker in a certain sector and doing different lines, give me that information.
Engineer: Everyone's on inter, apart from Magnussen, who's on full wet.
Lewis HAMILTON: Dry line out, 10-1.
Charles LECLERC: Sorry the drawing exit of turn one or actually yeah, we'll speak later
Lando NORRIS: Dry line out of turn one, dry line out of turn four.
Romain GROSJEAN: Truck is drying a lot already.
Engineer: OK, Kevin, I think we'll box now. Box now.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yeah, I agree. Box now, box now. For dry, yeah? For dry. Box now for dry.
Engineer: OK, Kevin, I think we'll box now.
Pierre GASLY: Contact with Russell and Albon
Engineer: so pressures are fine let me know if any contact with Ferrari
Max VERSTAPPEN: Well, pretty dry, but safe for the day.
Engineer: Lando, Kvyat's the first car to pit for slick tyres.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, my front tires are suffering, I hope. So, some parts are different on different days, I'm not sure. We can try.
Engineer: So traffic with Magnussen, he will be on rise, OK, clear.
Engineer: Carlos, if you're comfortable on medium, we'd pit for medium.
Carlos SAINZ: Copy, medium.
Engineer: Silver entry six silver entry six leave the launch map on apply the brakes in the stop
Engineer: So we jump Vettel at the stop.
Engineer: Be careful with left front tyre, be careful with left front tyre.
Engineer: Box now, box now, stay right of Bollard.
Max VERSTAPPEN: What time is he up?
Engineer: Alton on the medium, same as you.
Engineer: Watch for debris where you are watch for debris where you are
Engineer: Urgent. Default 27. Default 27.
Engineer: done in race in 20 minutes you need to look after your tires to that point
Engineer: OK, Mac, so just a reminder about the possible weather window approaching. I'm just going to need to make these tyres last. You're doing a good job. Just control them where we've spoken about.
Engineer: Ok Esteban, you're killing the left front in turn 11, you're killing the left front in turn 11
Esteban OCON: Copy
Engineer: Can you give us a balance check? A
Lewis HAMILTON: little bit more just here.
Engineer: Engine braking 7 for more rotation. Aggressive.
Engineer: and get to a stop at 8.3
Engineer: We're good on strategy. We're good on strategy. We will look to extend if we can. You're doing same lap time as Roman in P5.
Engineer: Turn one left hand side toggle use left hand side toggle and be careful. It's tailwind there
Engineer: Carlos, rain could be as late as 25. Rain could be as late as lap 25.
Lance STROLL: But I'm also overheating the surface on the rear.
Engineer: Okay Lando, still a long way to go in this race. The soft runners are really beginning to struggle. Gasly, four cars in front.
Engineer: Orange Torque 6, Orange Torque 6 for the low RPM ramps and protect the front left in Turn 5, V-Style Turn 5.
Pierre GASLY: I have no f***ing power! How do you want me to race with this? I have no power, slow up shift, no power.
Engineer: Ok Pierre, box, box, box, box, we have to retire the car, box, box. We have a terminal problem.
Engineer: So expect it's coming from 5 to 11, but copy that.
Lewis HAMILTON: Graining on the left front
Engineer: Very good pace Max, very good pace. I'll be happy with the appearance of your front left as well.
Engineer: Brake balance one click forward and no lifting coast brake balance one click no lifting coast
Engineer: Yes, I'm actually doing an excellent job. Still unsure whether this rain shower is actually going to force us to pit So whilst others are starting to struggle with the front left, you're doing a really good job. So keep at it
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Lance, how was the balance on the intermediates? How was the balance on the inters?
Lance STROLL: It was okay. It was understeery because the fronts were giving up with the dry yard track.
Sebastian VETTEL: And let's stay out and wait.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Still a potential of rain in the next seven laps.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Understood. Our front's taking a hit now.
Engineer: Okay, understood. Reset your switches.
Lewis HAMILTON: Engine was just dying at the start. RPM kept dipping. And
Engineer: you're all clear.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Left front is giving up quite a bit.
Engineer: Understood, same reports from Lewis ahead. His last lap was 21.7.
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: think the tires are starting to give up, or it's just loaded.
Engineer: So it's following Russell ahead, it's following Russell ahead. We need to get a little closer to him, and he'll get the blue flag.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Okay, well, it's suspension and everything.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Hit the wall.
Engineer: Copy, Max.
Alexander ALBON: Because it's not easy to drive at all
Engineer: And how are the tyres and how is the balance?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yes, stable, stable at the mountain, but they've got both axles.
Engineer: Both
Daniel RICCIARDO: tyres are very easy to overslip, but they're also holding on.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: Gap to stroll is increasing
Engineer: Ok Kimi, update on weather, we should have rain at any time now and it should be a short shower for 10 minutes and then no more rain So
Kimi RAIKKONEN: what tyres we gonna take then?
Engineer: It will depend the level of rain we see, it's in between the two so...
Romain GROSJEAN: What about pitting now? Yeah, I think the floor, I think the floor Absurdly ridiculous, how can you go from so far? Think about, yeah, think about pitting soon Because of the Williams the graining is gone, not great
Lewis HAMILTON: Still a lot of rubber on the rear, it's just the fronts that are wearing a little bit.
Engineer: Copy Lewis, lap times still good, fastest man on track.
Engineer: The rain is class 2 Carlos could go to Inter but only for 10 minutes
Kimi RAIKKONEN: My left is really suffering, so we're losing a lot of time, it's just not going right.
Engineer: We expect light rain imminently, light rain imminently, it'll be your call on tyre choice.
Lando NORRIS: Spitting a little bit middle sector.
Engineer: Understood, that's where the rain is coming from.
Engineer: And multifunction strat position one, strat position one. Can
Charles LECLERC: you ask it to me when I'm not in sector two, please?
Engineer: So last sector getting wetter
Engineer: Box now box now
Engineer: Okay, so the formation lap procedures do not change
Charles LECLERC: Can you let me know the pace every lap, please? Let me know the pace every lap. Let me know the pace every lap, please.
Engineer: Bring the tyre in a little bit, rustles the car behind, he's on about 15 laps old mediums.
Engineer: Engine free and safe to Magnus and behind, 5.8, also Hamilton fitted.
Engineer: 33 remaining, you did 34 on that tyre.
Engineer: No further rain until the end of the race no further rain until the end of the race
Engineer: Still two cars in front of you to stop, but Leclerc will come out right with you when he does. They may be trying to go to the end, they may be trying to go to the end on hard.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Let's push this as long as we can.
Engineer: Understood, there will be one click out.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ok, I just want to say incredible work guys, that's unbelievable. Thank you very much.
Engineer: Carlos this is still good we can still benefit from a safety car and if you pit now you'd immediately get a blue flag
Carlos SAINZ: OK, but I have very little tire life left.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Carlos will box this lap box this lap Pit entry not too bad pit entry not too bad box now
Engineer: Ok car ahead is Leclerc, hard tyres from lap 20
Daniil KVYAT: Can I box for slicks before the start? Confirm please.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Diff high speed 5 to reduce snap oversteer.
Lewis HAMILTON: Engine keeps sounding like it's gonna stall
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Ok Kimi, Russell is complaining about his tires Yeah, but I can just feel the f***ing action
Engineer: So Ricciardo just speed it now, it will be tight on exit.
Engineer: Science behind at 1.2 new attires hard compound
Engineer: Suggest Orange Torque 9. McClurk has to stop again or not? No, he does not have to stop again. McClurk is on hard from lap 20. Difficult to get to the end but possible.
Engineer: Bottas complaining of some graining on his front left tyre Max
Engineer: Magnussen is the car ahead of Leclerc, Magnussen is the car ahead of Leclerc, those are 9 and 10, you need to get past them.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Is there a train behind Vettel?
Engineer: So we got Vettel, Albon, Perez all on hard tires Vettel doing 20.8, Albon, Perez 20.6
Engineer: OK, you've got some free air now for a little bit, Max. Hamilton 19.8, info. OK, Bottas is pitting. Bottas pitting, obviously struggling with his front left tyre. He's going for the two-stop.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Whatever comes behind him.
Engineer: Yeah, we had a free pit stop on Stroll. Free pit stop on Stroll. So that's your positive news for the day. No-one else is in contention.
Sebastian VETTEL: But as jump to start
Engineer: We can report and check
Lance STROLL: I don't know why we didn't fit the prime.
Engineer: I've got Sainz and Leclerc five seconds ahead of Vyat, so if you can go fast you can get them as well.
Charles LECLERC: For this sort of rubbish
Engineer: Tight Vettel use energy, tight Vettel use energy, Vettel 23 lap old primes, Vettel's on 23 lap old primes.
Engineer: Yeah, suffering guys, suffering for good luck. Copy. We're in the last corner. Stay calm Carlos. Don't get frustrated. Still 16 laps to go after this one.
Engineer: His tires are 21 laps older than yours your time will come
Engineer: Kevin you're doing perfect. We just need the best total race time we can. Our race will come after the pit stop So just do the best laps you can
Engineer: Salvatore, rain 12 minutes away, so you can use these tires.
Engineer: Leclerc has had a few lock-ups Carlos, I think there's still opportunity by keeping the pressure on.
Engineer: and Lewis we've seen some rain on the radar about 12 minutes away it will only be light
Engineer: How is the balance? How's the balance?
Romain GROSJEAN: It's okay. The grip is getting a little bit better. Yeah, the grip on that last lap was a bit better for some reason.
Engineer: Be careful to marbles out of line.
Engineer: And you can just give us a balance check. Coming up.
Lewis HAMILTON: Balance is good.
Engineer: 12 to go.
Alexander ALBON: Give me more power. Why aren't you giving me more power?
Engineer: Carlos, that's Bottas behind. He'll take blue flags soon. That could be another opportunity. Good job, mate. Leclerc has blue flags now.
Engineer: Okay, Lando, in front of Kyriat is Leclerc. He might fall back to us. Let's go, mate. Let's get him.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, still a bit more on the rear, but front's starting to suffer as well. Face great.
Charles LECLERC: Are we sure the raid is coming? If not, I want to beat.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
Charles LECLERC: I'm losing so much. My front left is dead. I think we should stop.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
Alexander ALBON: Keep locking up the inside wheels.
Engineer: Coming to Torque 7, Mid 6. Torque 6, Mid 6. Torque 6, Mid 6.
Engineer: Magnussen taking a blue flag from Bottas now his underlying pace is 120.8 this is still on
Engineer: Low light rain expected in 10 minutes.
Engineer: So the staff are behind six seconds, four laps remaining.
Engineer: And Lewis, can you go menu IC position 9? IC position 9.
Lewis HAMILTON: What number is that, man?
Engineer: It'll be strap mode 11 if you need it for fastest lap.
Lewis HAMILTON: Looks like a lot of wear on that left front.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Sebastian VETTEL: I'm struggling a little bit with the front left.
Engineer: All right, last chance. Got 0.8.
Engineer: Expecting medium rain in 8 minutes.
Romain GROSJEAN: That car in front of me is really not helping.
Engineer: I
Romain GROSJEAN: know I'm not whizzing 1.2 seconds, but I can't get there.
Engineer: Understood, understood.
Lance STROLL: Ah, this is s**t.
Engineer: I'm
Lance STROLL: struggling.
Engineer: So final order, Lewis is stopped at the end of free stop for a soft, maybe the fastest. Verstappen, yourself, Struhl, Albon, Vettel, Perez, Ricciardo, Magnussen, Sainz.
Sebastian VETTEL: P1 and P0, okay guys Sorry, I lost that position, but the tires were pretty finished at the end
Engineer: Yeah, you did a hard work today was a good management of the race well done there and Charles finished P11 and cool the brakes so Hamilton then Verstappen nine seconds behind then Bottas right behind Verstappen then Stroll, Albon yourself, Perez, Ricciardo, Magnussen P9 and Sainz P10
Sebastian VETTEL: Ok guys, sorry I lost that position, but the tyres were pretty finished at the end.
Engineer: Yeah, you did a hard work today. It was a good management of the race, well done there. And Charles finished P11.
Max VERSTAPPEN: The LF1 is getting really bad mate.
Engineer: And slow button on, slow button on, P11, position Hamilton, Verstappen Bottas, Sebastian P6.
Charles LECLERC: Copy, I really rarely struggle that much, I really struggled a lot, less talk out of the car, but yeah, was really struggling with the car overall, and also we'll talk about the seat too, because my back is hurting really badly, anyway, we'll speak later.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
Engineer: Great job, Alex. P5. Fail. 84. Fail. Fail. 84. Fail. Pick up rubber on the in-lap. Expecting rain on the in-lap. Great recovery, Alex. That was a really strong drive. Some great passing moves and strong pace. So that's a decent day in the office. Well done.
Alexander ALBON: Thank you, Christian. Thank you, guys. Thanks, everyone. It wasn't an easy weekend, but you guys did it when it counts. Thank you.
Engineer: Okay mate, that's the chequered flag. Let's have scenario one. Scenario one's good. That's P10. It's not quite the race we wanted, but it's still a valuable point. Well done mate, that was a decent race, decent drive.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, thank you. I think we got unlucky there at the stop with the traffic, but it's not our fault. But yeah, good job.
Engineer: Some
Carlos SAINZ: work to do on the car balance.
Lewis HAMILTON: I see spotted rain
Engineer: And Lando, tough start for the race for us. We finished in P13, P13.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, good job. The car was pretty good, I think. Just messed up the start, like you said, and I made everything harder, so it's on me, my bad.
Engineer: No worries, dude.
Engineer: OK, conditions wise Max, expecting it to remain as it is for the next 4-5 minutes and then clear to the end of the race.
Esteban OCON: That was a horrible weekend, guys. We need to have a good review and I don't want ever to have a race like this. It was really poor.
Engineer: I agree, it was poor.
Engineer: P12, done him. It was a good race.
Daniil KVYAT: Well, with the way we did the race, we deserved a race win. To be honest.
Engineer: I
Daniil KVYAT: don't know. Work your ass out.
Engineer: To
Daniil KVYAT: finish P12.
Engineer: The race is good. The race was good. Fail 84, fail. Fail 84, fail.
Engineer: Just think about managing that front left. We did add balance.
Lewis HAMILTON: I am, I am.
Engineer: OK, George, we expect possible rain in nine laps.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Wait, they have to move the run. I'm fighting for second here.
Engineer: Yeah, understood Max. We're trying.
Max VERSTAPPEN: How far is he behind, Bottas?
Engineer: He's right behind you.
Romain GROSJEAN: Is everything okay on the car? I don't have any more grip at all. I may have marble but just check everything.
Engineer: All looks okay, all looks okay.
Engineer: So target pace 18.5 to beat him.
Lewis HAMILTON: Sorry, I don't feel great.
Engineer: Just get your head down back on the pace now Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm trying as hard as I can.
Engineer: Yep, as ever.
Engineer: So Lewis, we're thinking of taking this free stop, you've got 10 laps to go when you cross the line, you'll come out 3 seconds ahead of the Stappen, we'll be taking the hard tyre, let's not be happy with that.
Lewis HAMILTON: We don't have a sub we can use.
Engineer: We don't think that's a very good tyre at all Lewis, I think hard's the way to go. I think
Lewis HAMILTON: the 10 laps and sub is going to be good.
Engineer: It will grain after 3.
Lewis HAMILTON: OK.
Charles LECLERC: I'm struggling so much
Engineer: What's
Lewis HAMILTON: going on?
Engineer: Standby Lewis, need to find out myself
Engineer: Yeah, so we're going to switch it to the soft so we just want to give ourselves a little bit more margin
Charles LECLERC: The balance is all over the place. I'm crying my eyes out, but I'm struggling so much.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Get those f***ing cars out of the way.
Engineer: Get in there Lewis. Absolute master class mate. What a spot on effort. So yeah, fastest lap and the win. Beautiful work there.
Lewis HAMILTON: Fantastic effort this weekend guys. I'm so proud of you all and so happy with today. Thanks so much.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yes, guys, what a result, what a result. I want to say a big thank you to the mechanics because they saved the day. You guys are legends. Thank you so much.
Engineer: scenario 12 scenario 12 okay that's p8 p8 nice job on those tires yep
Daniel RICCIARDO: okay thanks guys yeah once we got a bit closer they they died but sorry i would have loved to have had a bit more of an attack
Lance STROLL: Well done. Nice one guys. Big points in the bag. Let's go.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Thanks, man. You did amazing. I had everything I needed, man. I want to kiss you. I want to kiss you, man.
Engineer: That was a tough one, that was a tough one, but we learned from it.
Nicholas LATIFI: Yeah, we just got to put this one behind us.
Engineer: OK, checkered flag, tough day.
George RUSSELL: What was my clutch target for start? Just every one I did went into massive wheel spin.
Engineer: It
George RUSSELL: seemed like everyone on the right hand side had a terrible start as well, but regardless it was very, very tricky in the beginning when I was following. Just had no stability. Yeah, we'll just guess after.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Okay dude, that's the checker, that's the checker, good drive man, really good call at the beginning of the race to swap tyres, that really opened it up. Just a real big shame we got that damage in the race, but good job keeping Räikkönen behind to the end. Yeah, good call guys, very good call. Second call a bit late I believe,
Romain GROSJEAN: yeah,
Engineer: and then damage. Where did Kevin finish? Kevin got P9, P9, so that's really good for the team. Yeah, great job, good job, good job.
Engineer: Ken Antonio, P17, Etienne, Kimi, P16, Hamilton 1, Verstappen and Bottas, top 3.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Copy.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, that's it, mode 4, pick up some rubber please, Hamilton 1, followed by Verstappen and Bottas. Ok Kimi, remember full switch off procedure please, see you in a bit.
Engineer: OK, checkered flag, position 7, well done mate, it was just a start wasn't it? Well
Sergio PEREZ: done mate, were they last finished?
Engineer: Lance was P4 checkered, P4
Engineer: Check reflect, check reflect. P12 done him. It was a good race.
Daniil KVYAT: Well, with the way we did the race, we deserved the race win. To be honest. I don't know. Work your ass out. To P12.
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