Spanish Grand Prix 2020: Qualifying team radio
62 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Spanish Grand Prix 2020, across 18 drivers. 61 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Alexander ALBON had the most, with 7.
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
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 7 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 5 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 2 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: It's going to be your first time track, so
Nicholas LATIFI: the positive
Engineer: is you can really focus on your hot lap, focus on everything we said.
Engineer: Let's just hear Nicholas on track, Nicholas in turn 1 now on a push lap, so let's clear ahead, and then we go push before the last corner.
Engineer: The
Nicholas LATIFI: truck felt a bit slippery at the start, I'm sure it's going to improve.
Nicholas LATIFI: Yeah, it's in the wind though, a little bit on the edge of understeer starting the lap, overseer ending.
Engineer: The circuit should be all clear.
George RUSSELL: Very windy
Engineer: Yeah, I think it's picked up just as you left the garage
George RUSSELL: balance felt alright otherwise
Engineer: I'm not
Max VERSTAPPEN: sure, it feels a bit weird to the car.
Engineer: Understood.
Esteban OCON: Brake pedal very long at the moment, very long.
Engineer: Copy. I'm afraid you're going to have to live with that. We aren't going to have time to do anything. Hopefully it'll come to you a little bit during the session.
Alexander ALBON: Still 10-10 and 10-5, we have understood. Understood.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, it was a bit sharp on the front. I'll come down too, on
Engineer: the front wing. OK, understood.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, can you check the floor?
Engineer: Yeah, we will have a look.
Esteban OCON: There was slightly too much on the sand for turn 1.
Engineer: OK, what about the rest of the lap?
Esteban OCON: The rest of the lap was pretty decent to end with.
Engineer: Yeah, copy.
Engineer: Ok Niki, we expect 0.4 of track evil and cutoff 17.6, 17.6
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, car is a bit more alive, I think. I can afford some more flap, but not a lot, maybe one step.
Engineer: Copying one step up.
Daniil KVYAT: Just last sector again, 10 and 10-12 is most rear limited corners for me.
Engineer: Okay, Lando, in this group, we're the sixth car.
George RUSSELL: Alright, this is going to be a massive traffic jam here.
Engineer: So everybody's going to be on outlaps, you've only got two cars ahead, Bottas and Ocon, so you're in a better place for traffic. Do what you need to do for tyres, they're in a good place again. So ahead Bottas, behind Ricciardo, everyone on soft.
Engineer: Red Bull is on the angle up or not? He's in sync with you, he's in sync with you.
Romain GROSJEAN: Ah, it's a f***ing
Engineer: mess. F***ing mess.
Engineer: OK, recharge on please and box this lap Max, recharge on, box this lap, strat 7, strat 7, and keep your dash negative, keep your dash negative.
Engineer: Sorry guys, I wanted to give you more after last night
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, no more, I'm still rear limited, turn 9 is understeer, that's why I can't make it flat, so it's quite disconnected now, I think, let's talk in the garage about the difference.
Engineer: What happened in 1-2, were you held up?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: Yes, big time. Big time, understood.
Engineer: and yellow g4 please yellow g4 and that's the start of the session
Engineer: So your first two cows on track still and all the cows hitting the track.
Engineer: For us it's B-Bell 3 and recharge it off when you're ready.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And a weaving out of turn 9
Engineer: Potential race start set, so look after it.
Engineer: And how was the balance?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I could come up and click on front wing.
Engineer: Okay, unlisted.
Engineer: So basically we're not carrying enough speed through turn five and also braking a little bit earlier than we need to for turn ten Josh will have some more info for you
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, horrible lap. Really horrible.
Pierre GASLY: Let's go let's go
Engineer: ok and track is clear, track clear, we have margin so whatever you need on the outlap
Engineer: OK, recharge on, recharge on, and look after these tyres on the way in please, could be a race, start set.
Alexander ALBON: We ran out of boost again.
Pierre GASLY: Yes! Yes! Yes, man!
Pierre GASLY: That was a very good lap, I'm really happy, see the car feels good, so let's try again.
Engineer: Yeah same again mate, ok so now we will follow the plan, we will follow the plan.
Daniil KVYAT: Ok, the outlap didn't help, but that was everything I had.
Engineer: Yeah, it was not bad after the previous sessions. We can have a good race from there.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah.
Engineer: So you'll be waiting, still a red flag, so you'll be waiting at the end of the pit lane for 1 minute 30 seconds. You'll be waiting at the end of the pit lane for 1 minute 30 seconds.
Engineer: Be
Lance STROLL: nice to have an ice cream in here, Brad.
Engineer: It would be nice to have one up here
Engineer: Rear temperatures are slightly warmer on this scrub set.
Engineer: Okay, temperatures are still looking nice.
Engineer: and we have tailwind into turn 9
Engineer: Bit of a train at 14 at the moment. I'll keep you posted. How many cars are there? Three to go.
Engineer: Delta. Delta. Stay negative. Stay negative. Cool brakes on the way in. Cool brakes on the way in. A bit of full throttle for charging.
Engineer: Okay, I saw you a little moment turn two. You did well to keep a calm head after that. Good recovery.
Charles LECLERC: Some weird behavior of the engine out of the box.
Engineer: Ok, we will check that.
Engineer: Three, push the colon.
Engineer: Looks like they're all playing silly buggers at the front again.
Engineer: And Carlos again, I think what you did last time with the windy conditions is good. Just keep your inputs nice and calm
Engineer: Too
Charles LECLERC: much understeer. We've got this understeer that we can't get rid of. With the new tyres it's just worse than with the old tyres, just because the balance understeering like crazy.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
Engineer: Nice work Lewis. That's it. So that's P1 mate. Well done. Really nice job there.
Charles LECLERC: Is it P-10 or P-9 or what?
Engineer: It's a good effort Max, good effort mate, P3, nice job today. Strat 7 please.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah it seemed like Tractons maybe a bit slower, I don't know.
Engineer: Yeah copy, you're just a tenth down in sector three, um no yeah Hamilton was half second slower on his second set, Bottas matched his first time.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah no bad, good starting position so um let's see tomorrow.
Engineer: Yep. Yeah good effort Max, I think that was all that was in there today so good starting group for tomorrow.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Exactly.
Carlos SAINZ: OK Carlos, P7, P7 mate, good job. Yeah, decent job guys, not the perfect lap, but yeah,
Engineer: not
Carlos SAINZ: bad.
Engineer: Good
Lance STROLL: job guys, kind of lost out there on that lap at the last sector, but good effort.
Engineer: All right, second, it's just basically the same lap time again, so let's tap him still on the lap, Lewis didn't improve.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Hey
Engineer: fam, so just keep the delta negative, you look the same to us, you were purple sector 2. So second confirmed.
Engineer: P4 confirmed Checo, well done, Lance P5, top 3 is Hamilton 1, Bottas 2, Verstappen 3
Sergio PEREZ: Good job team, good results Copy
Engineer: that Checo, just under 2 tenths to Verstappen ahead, Mercedes are far away
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it was a bad lap, I messed up 10-10, bit of front locking but...
Engineer: Okay, we qualified P8, P8
Engineer: Okay, that is P6 mate, P6, so just make sure you're negative on the Delta, that's important, negative on your Delta please Well done Alex, well done, solid job today, well done, top six Okay, so when you start P1 and leave it in P1 please
Pierre GASLY: I felt pretty ****
Engineer: Yeah it was bad, it was bad
Pierre GASLY: No grip on the rear last sector, I don't know if it's
Engineer: a
Pierre GASLY: massive snazzy river Yeah I don't know why, it's just all over the place in the last sector
Engineer: Ok, stop at the bridge, anyway good job
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