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Spanish Grand Prix2020 · Practice 3 team radio
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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.
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EngineerRadio check Kevin.
Kevin MAGNUSSENRadio is good.
EngineerYep 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 MAGNUSSENBox now.
EngineerRadio check first.
Romain GROSJEANYeah 10, is there oil on track at turn 10? It's 12.
EngineerTurn 12 loud and clear, not that we're aware of, and box remain box.
EngineerBuy point find, one burnout, second gear launch.
EngineerAnd you were on target, just very low grip.
Lando NORRISYeah, ready to check 10-10,
EngineerI'm
Lando NORRISgood.
EngineerYep, that's 10-10 loud and clear. You are the only car on track.
EngineerAnd still the only car on track. Remember slow lap is plus 45.
EngineerAnd how's the balance?
Lando NORRISIt's okay, I think.
EngineerOkay, understood.
EngineerOK, Kimi, radio check, pit exit. It's OK. OK, for me too, track is clear behind.
EngineerMULTI B, SHIFT 4, SHIFT 4.
Antonio GIOVINAZZICopy.
EngineerOK Kimi, mode push when you're ready, you have nobody behind
EngineerAnd cooldown lap of plus 45 again, which is plus 14 on your dash, 1-4.
Lando NORRISNow I'm trying down 1.
EngineerUnderstood.
EngineerWe have margin to improve entry speed turn one.
Engineerand we'll get good good stops on the brakes to get the brakes fired up yeah
George RUSSELLcopy bit of pulling at the moment yeah
Engineerif 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
EngineerOK Carlos, that's P1 at the moment. Recharge on is good.
Carlos SAINZBox for one turn down,
Engineercarburetor neutral. Copy, happy with that, box this lap.
Engineerand we have tailwind into turn nine tailwind turn nine
Engineereveryone around you on an outlap Kvyat in front seven seconds he may slow down at the end
Engineerthere'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
EngineerOK, 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 RUSSELLCopy. 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.
EngineerYeah, AFM. How's Sector 3? It's clear behind, by the way, 20 seconds. How's Sector 3?
George RUSSELLRear surface, overheat him.
EngineerFront locking.
George RUSSELLNothing special. Copy.
EngineerScience pushing 13 back. Suggest diff high speed 6.
EngineerOK, Kimi, more charge and I suggest boxy-slap. I
Kimi RAIKKONENwant to do a change in my car.
EngineerTo
Daniil KVYATbe honest, I'm not confident the tyres are good anymore. A lot of spin, will spin.
EngineerTime to find minimum speed turn 4 and entry turn 7
EngineerThat
Daniil KVYATis completely gone
EngineerOkay 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.
EngineerSo 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.
EngineerSector 1 a couple of tenths down, Sector 2 we are four tenths down, Sector 3 you are purple by a tenth.
EngineerOK, recharge on and cool the tyres straight away please, so nice and slow, cool the tyres.
Alexander ALBONOK,
Engineerunderstood, 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 LECLERCCan I go to the toilet?
EngineerYes, you can.
EngineerEngine 5, position 2 Engine 5, position 2
Pierre GASLYOh ****, I have traffic everywhere
EngineerYeah, and they didn't get out of the way for some reason
Esteban OCONDon't know what happened there, but they didn't sound very nice. Ok
EngineerEsteban, 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.
EngineerAnd you were purple in sector 1. Sector 2 was 4th quickest.
EngineerSo Lando, we'll keep an eye on the SOC, we might have to do two cool down laps.
Lando NORRISI think just going for two anyway, it gives us a better read on the tyres.
EngineerOK, understood.
EngineerOK 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 SAINZYeah, 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
EngineerCopy, so you had a 15k tailwind all through the entry of 4
EngineerSo track looks like he's gripped up, sign's was 18-0.
Nicholas LATIFIHe complains about people blocking him all the time. He's not any better.
EngineerAnd mode charge, mode charge, at the moment you have P5, so BOTAS, Sainz, Hamilton, Verstappen and yourself.
Charles LECLERCI did a mistake in the last corner.
EngineerCopy, compared to Sainz we are losing 3 tenths, sector 1, same sector 2.
Engineermultifunction DO position 3 multifunction DO position 3
EngineerAnd 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 RUSSELLStill struggling turn 10, rear lock in on initial.
EngineerCopy that, well advised.
EngineerFocus on brakes and tires, we need a warm-up on brakes
EngineerUse the shade from the grandstand
EngineerSo 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.
EngineerRecharge on please Max
Max VERSTAPPENMate, no power out of
Engineerthe
Max VERSTAPPENf***ing last one
EngineerYep, understood Ultra slow lap please Max It's not qualifying just yet mate I know, I know but...
Max VERSTAPPENI can't charge the battery like this. It's just not filling up
EngineerOkay, fair enough. We'll revert to tight then. Let's go double slope
EngineerOK, we'll box this lap, box this lap, push pit entry and exit, leave the launch map on, apply the brakes during the stop.
EngineerOkay dude, you found some time and some places there.
EngineerSuggest orange E7, orange E7.
Esteban OCONOh Magnussen break, oh guys the cousin is crashed completely
EngineerOkay, 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.
EngineerWhat actually happened there, Esteban?
Esteban OCONI let pass Magnussen because he's on a time-lapse and he decelerated.
EngineerWe are of course boxed this lap.