Spanish Grand Prix 2020: Practice 3 team radio
50 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Spanish Grand Prix 2020, across 17 drivers. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 10.
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 · 10 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 4 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 3 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Radio check Kevin.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Radio is good.
Engineer: Yep loud and clear. No one behind just an easy install. Okay to push, okay to push and we can go multi GX3, multi GX3. Okay no one behind we'll do CSL 5 5th gear between 9 and 10 please. Okay just watch turn 10 there might be some debris or something there they just said possible. I didn't see any debris. Yeah no problem it was just I don't know what it was anyway we'll box now Kevin box now.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Box now.
Engineer: Radio check first.
Romain GROSJEAN: Yeah 10, is there oil on track at turn 10? It's 12.
Engineer: Turn 12 loud and clear, not that we're aware of, and box remain box.
Engineer: Buy point find, one burnout, second gear launch.
Engineer: And you were on target, just very low grip.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, ready to check 10-10,
Engineer: I'm
Lando NORRIS: good.
Engineer: Yep, that's 10-10 loud and clear. You are the only car on track.
Engineer: And still the only car on track. Remember slow lap is plus 45.
Engineer: And how's the balance?
Lando NORRIS: It's okay, I think.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: OK, Kimi, radio check, pit exit. It's OK. OK, for me too, track is clear behind.
Engineer: MULTI B, SHIFT 4, SHIFT 4.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Copy.
Engineer: OK Kimi, mode push when you're ready, you have nobody behind
Engineer: And cooldown lap of plus 45 again, which is plus 14 on your dash, 1-4.
Lando NORRIS: Now I'm trying down 1.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: We have margin to improve entry speed turn one.
Engineer: and we'll get good good stops on the brakes to get the brakes fired up yeah
George RUSSELL: copy bit of pulling at the moment yeah
Engineer: if we get some good hard stops and that will bring them back in line so lots of cars leaving the pit lane now okay brakes looking better but let's get the good stop into 10 and we'll stay out to do the run always good with the car
Engineer: OK Carlos, that's P1 at the moment. Recharge on is good.
Carlos SAINZ: Box for one turn down,
Engineer: carburetor neutral. Copy, happy with that, box this lap.
Engineer: and we have tailwind into turn nine tailwind turn nine
Engineer: everyone around you on an outlap Kvyat in front seven seconds he may slow down at the end
Engineer: there's quite a lot of cars potentially on time lapse that are going to be behind us here this could be a bit of a challenge watch for Vettel three seconds behind
Engineer: OK, we can try the double cool if you think Sector 3 will still hang on, so it'll be plus 35 on both. Nicholas's first lap was a tenth and a half slower than you.
George RUSSELL: Copy. I think it was quite pointy on the entry of Turn 3, probably to lock diff high speed. There'll be no thoughts. Turn 9 feels OK. Aero balance feels OK. Mechanical balance is probably too rearward, so let's think about the change we spoke about.
Engineer: Yeah, AFM. How's Sector 3? It's clear behind, by the way, 20 seconds. How's Sector 3?
George RUSSELL: Rear surface, overheat him.
Engineer: Front locking.
George RUSSELL: Nothing special. Copy.
Engineer: Science pushing 13 back. Suggest diff high speed 6.
Engineer: OK, Kimi, more charge and I suggest boxy-slap. I
Kimi RAIKKONEN: want to do a change in my car.
Engineer: To
Daniil KVYAT: be honest, I'm not confident the tyres are good anymore. A lot of spin, will spin.
Engineer: Time to find minimum speed turn 4 and entry turn 7
Engineer: That
Daniil KVYAT: is completely gone
Engineer: Okay Hamilton has done a fast lap on his soft tyres already, I imagine they'll be going quite slow, he's just pitted I think for a front wing adjust.
Engineer: So you've got strat 11 pre-selected, so you're good to go. So it looks like Valtteri has aborted, so you're all clear behind.
Engineer: Sector 1 a couple of tenths down, Sector 2 we are four tenths down, Sector 3 you are purple by a tenth.
Engineer: OK, recharge on and cool the tyres straight away please, so nice and slow, cool the tyres.
Alexander ALBON: OK,
Engineer: understood, V-Bell 6 please, V-Bell 6, I'll put your P6 on a 19.1. Cool your tyres down, I'll help you out with traffic. And we're going to try one cool down lap. Lost a little bit of time to Verstappen by carrying a bit more speed into turn 14 and then losing out in 15, so just have a think about that, think about your compromise, 14 and 15. Other than that, he was a bit earlier on throttle turn 5.
Charles LECLERC: Can I go to the toilet?
Engineer: Yes, you can.
Engineer: Engine 5, position 2 Engine 5, position 2
Pierre GASLY: Oh ****, I have traffic everywhere
Engineer: Yeah, and they didn't get out of the way for some reason
Esteban OCON: Don't know what happened there, but they didn't sound very nice. Ok
Engineer: Esteban, that was a problem with... It doesn't matter, just box this lap please. It's not the gearbox Esteban, it's not the gearbox.
Engineer: And you were purple in sector 1. Sector 2 was 4th quickest.
Engineer: So Lando, we'll keep an eye on the SOC, we might have to do two cool down laps.
Lando NORRIS: I think just going for two anyway, it gives us a better read on the tyres.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: OK Carlos, that's P2, we've split the Mercedes on their first run, they're on the same compound as this, Lando's on another cool down lap
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, but big gust of wind in turn 4 and 7 Double check if we heard a weird push on the car, on those two corners
Engineer: Copy, so you had a 15k tailwind all through the entry of 4
Engineer: So track looks like he's gripped up, sign's was 18-0.
Nicholas LATIFI: He complains about people blocking him all the time. He's not any better.
Engineer: And mode charge, mode charge, at the moment you have P5, so BOTAS, Sainz, Hamilton, Verstappen and yourself.
Charles LECLERC: I did a mistake in the last corner.
Engineer: Copy, compared to Sainz we are losing 3 tenths, sector 1, same sector 2.
Engineer: multifunction DO position 3 multifunction DO position 3
Engineer: And we need driver default 50 on, driver default 50 on. Yeah, driver default what, alpha, beta sorry? Driver default delta 50 on, delta 50 on.
George RUSSELL: Still struggling turn 10, rear lock in on initial.
Engineer: Copy that, well advised.
Engineer: Focus on brakes and tires, we need a warm-up on brakes
Engineer: Use the shade from the grandstand
Engineer: So currently P1, tenth and a half to Valtry P2, you are purple in the middle sector. To Valtry just down six hundredths in the final sector.
Engineer: Recharge on please Max
Max VERSTAPPEN: Mate, no power out of
Engineer: the
Max VERSTAPPEN: f***ing last one
Engineer: Yep, understood Ultra slow lap please Max It's not qualifying just yet mate I know, I know but...
Max VERSTAPPEN: I can't charge the battery like this. It's just not filling up
Engineer: Okay, fair enough. We'll revert to tight then. Let's go double slope
Engineer: OK, we'll box this lap, box this lap, push pit entry and exit, leave the launch map on, apply the brakes during the stop.
Engineer: Okay dude, you found some time and some places there.
Engineer: Suggest orange E7, orange E7.
Esteban OCON: Oh Magnussen break, oh guys the cousin is crashed completely
Engineer: Okay, red flag, red flag, Ocon crashed at 4, so make sure you stay positive on the delta time, stay plus, and then we'll do that CSL5 fifth gear between 9 and 10, please.
Engineer: What actually happened there, Esteban?
Esteban OCON: I let pass Magnussen because he's on a time-lapse and he decelerated.
Engineer: We are of course boxed this lap.
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