Azerbaijan GP: Best of team radio
Selection of team radio transcripts from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the fourth round of 2019 Formula 1 season.

Stroll shunts his Racing Point in FP2

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Team: “Copy that. Are you ok?”
Stroll: “Yeah, just got a snap on entry.”
Leclerc was quite self-critical after his qualifying crash

Photo by: Hasan Bratic / Motorsport Images
Raikkonen encountered traffic on his final qualifying lap

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Raikkonen: “It was **** ****”
Team: “OK, we finish P9, P9.”
Raikkonen: “I would have done a **** better lap on my own. So much better.”
Verstappen reports engine braking issues early in the race

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Team: “Okay, standby.”
Verstappen: “It’s like a handbrake in between 5 and 6.”
Team: “Understood Max.”
Hulkenberg and Renault disagree

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Hulkenberg: “I disagree. I need to stay with the slipstream.”
Raikkonen says he is unable to pass Magnussen

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Grosjean goes straight into the escape road

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Grosjean: “Yeah, yeah I’m back but **** front right tyre problem. It’s just getting….grip is **** going.”
Ricciardo takes out Kvyat

Photo by: Glenn Dunbar / Motorsport Images
Renault to Ricciardo: “Are you OK?”
Ricciardo: “I didn’t...I didn’t see him. Sorry, I didn’t see him.”
Bottas celebrates his second win of the season

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Team: “Thank you. So I guess the championship standings is now looking like it should again.”
Vettel’s post race thoughts

Photo by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images
Vettel: “Yeah, sorry for the beginning but I was **** myself little bit around here. I had no grip.”

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Azerbaijan GP: Best of team radio
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