Turkish Grand Prix 2020: Practice 3 team radio
53 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Turkish Grand Prix 2020, across 19 drivers. 52 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Carlos SAINZ 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
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 7 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 6 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 1 message
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Radio check pit lane.
Romain GROSJEAN: Yeah, pit exit.
Sebastian VETTEL: Five six more rain down here
Engineer: okay so it's going to be very slippery but please use the brakes as firmly as you can to avoid any problems
Alexander ALBON: It's much wetter at the back of the circuit.
Engineer: OK, understood. The rain will be coming from Turn 8 direction.
Engineer: Keep to try, try to keep temperature into the tires, Charles sliding quite a lot, turn 9 and 10 for info, Charles 15 seconds in front, 15, 1-5, good warm up on the brakes as well.
Engineer: How's the track and yellow flags, where you are?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it's okay, just very slippery but not terrible.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: And we have damp 1, damp 1, that's 8 o'clock on the multifunction, damp 1.
Engineer: Okay to push, okay to push.
Engineer: So check the tires are not coming up fast. They're very similar the fronts are cold
Engineer: So expect more severe rain towards the back end of the track. Okay, according to Sebastian, who's already been through a lap, the wettest part of the track is where you are now, turns 7 and 8, and it is drier in the final sector at turns 12, 13, 14.
Esteban OCON: He hit me
Engineer: the car okay?
Sebastian VETTEL: yeah car is fine just a little hiccup tires also should be fine.
Engineer: okay copy
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, maybe check it visually and then I go back on track, it's only the car feels fine.
Engineer: Copy, we'll push the car inside the gage, so stop on the max and we'll push you inside the gage.
Carlos SAINZ: Okay, box 4 wets. I cannot get this. Put this into the blankets and then we can get them to work later.
Engineer: Check it we think it's best to box we're not generating any more front temp so we're happy to box
Engineer: Carlos there's a possible traffic track obstruction or slippery surface from turn 8 to turn 10. Slippery or debris. Clear now, clear track.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's getting tricky now. It's slippery. There's a lot of rain everywhere.
Engineer: So Carlos we can try once past if this tyre has better grip we don't want to damage it
Engineer: and wet tires on the switch please wet tires on the tire switch
Engineer: Watch out for cars behind on time's out. You've got Gasly and then Vettel. Vettel's quick. He's right behind you.
Engineer: Carlos, is the car okay?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I just don't understand what we are doing wrong with this tire temperature.
Daniil KVYAT: Man, I'm spinning every lap.
Engineer: Remember try to generate the temperature in the brakes, no threat behind you, no threat, you can focus on your install lap Track declared very slippery from turn 8 to turn 10 Brakes are coming good. Just need a few more hard stop Hard stop in 9, hard stop in 9, remember no DRS check in turn 11, if anything before turn 12 you can sanity check it And a hard stop in turn 12 and box, box, careful pitting in, careful pitting in, no risk Yeah, I couldn't hear that, I couldn't hear that Flex box, flex box Copy box, copy box, and we do stop in box, careful stopping, it's slippery And copy pit lane, copy pit lane, so let's practice stop in box, stop in box Take caution, it's slippery, on marks or graves and engine off Okay, so to me you're good in the forward position, but you're still skewed and
Nicholas LATIFI: too much to the right To the right, yeah, I still find the rear jack is still too close to the turning point
Engineer: And
Nicholas LATIFI: I feel like I'm always going to hit it with the front wing
Engineer: Yeah,
Nicholas LATIFI: I mean, obviously very slippery, no standing water anywhere Yeah, just very
Engineer: Quali could be this condition
Daniil KVYAT: Understand that I just have no grip. Okay, there's nothing I can do the tire is so cold
Lewis HAMILTON: That's insane, those tyres are not working Yeah,
Engineer: copy, seat temps are dropping
Engineer: Want to P-stop for X-Wet, question?
Sebastian VETTEL: Well, it's just the tyres are getting colder.
Engineer: It's
Sebastian VETTEL: getting more difficult.
Engineer: Also, Hamilton say X-Wet no working. X-Wet no working for Hamilton, he's coming back in. Well, I might as well stay out.
Engineer: Want to P-stop for X-Sweat, question? I will give it a go to the X-Sweat. I will give it a go to the X-Sweat, I don't know what you think, because they are cooling down. Yeah, we can try. Copy. If you have a strong incentive, then yeah, we can try.
Engineer: Cup of that Esteban. Please focus on your stopping position. You're still too far to the right. The tyre marker board has been moved to help you.
Engineer: OK Esteban, some big stops will help the brake temperatures, some big stops will help the rear temperatures while you've got recharge on.
Engineer: And box now, box!
Charles LECLERC: It's very slippery for sure, but if we have this in the race we need to train and you know that I want some practice in this condition, so anyway we speak in the box. Yeah, understood.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, you still have nobody behind, and it will be mode push again when you're ready
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, but if I wanna use mode S? Yeah, you can stay in mode S, no problem, stay
Engineer: in mode S
Engineer: Tire temps are minus 10 from target.
Charles LECLERC: It's very slippery for sure but if we have this in the race we need to train and you know that I want some practice in these conditions.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, it's a lot wetter out the back, it's raining a lot more
Sebastian VETTEL: All water now quite a bit more water happy to come in the tires are just not work
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, Bob. OK, yeah. I was about to say, the
Engineer: rating test is increasing a late for, yeah, Bob, Bob.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, what's
Engineer: up
Carlos SAINZ: 51
Carlos SAINZ: How was the interval?
Engineer: As expected Carlos. Press and hold overtake where you can to manage the state of charge and box this lap
Carlos SAINZ: Yes, the change should be red flag, I mean it's not even possible to stay on track on these tires
Lando NORRIS: You could have warned me that there was a racing point alongside.
Engineer: Yep, we should have. Our bad.
Sergio PEREZ: What was that? Yes. Your father told you to crush it to me.
Pierre GASLY: No, that's
Engineer: not good.
Pierre GASLY: Come to him.
Engineer: Ok, do we have to box? Obviously it could be like this in quali. We don't know, it could be like this in quali. Keep us posted if we have to box please.
Pierre GASLY: This is f***ing cold tires.
Engineer: Try to extend the braking zone. Brake a bit longer to put temperatures in the brakes.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: This condition is so bad
Engineer: Just remind her, no need to take risks.
Daniil KVYAT: Mate, I would have more creep on the f***ing ice.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Do
Engineer: you
Kimi RAIKKONEN: want me to stay out or...?
Engineer: Yes, so the thing is you can do still 2 laps and we would like to do the start on the grid, this is high priority for us. So if you box we can't do the start anymore, so if that's ok with you, we would like to stay out.
Lewis HAMILTON: There's just no grip out here. Shocking.
Valtteri BOTTAS: wheel spinning, sixth gear.
Engineer: AFM, so box, box, if it's unsafe, heavy rain in pit lane.
Engineer: OK Lewis, so we have much heavier rain in the pit lane now, so suggest we box
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, it's impossible out here man
Engineer: Yeah, copy Lewis, just trundle back, you're all clear behind
Engineer: Is
Kimi RAIKKONEN: there cars? Are there cars on the track? Because I cannot see anything up here. No, no. You're the only car on the track.
Engineer: F***
Daniil KVYAT: man, you should have seen that one! You got a bit of drifting. Yeah man! Like f***ing rally, like ice driving I had this winter, exactly the same!
Engineer: Ok, thanks for that Kimi. You can go back to Modais and box box. That was a waste of time. Yep.
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