Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2020: Practice 1 team radio
77 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2020, across 18 drivers. 75 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Alexander ALBON had the most, with 9.
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 · 9 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 8 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 7 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Pietro FITTIPALDI · Haas · 5 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Robert KUBICA · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Esteban OCON: The steering wheel is quite on the left side.
Engineer: OK.
Esteban OCON: Right side, sorry.
Engineer: Copy.
Esteban OCON: Can I stop pushing or?
Engineer: I'd like you to do a quick in-lap, aero P4 5th gear after turn 7, so a quick but, you know, don't want to be flat out.
Engineer: So Lewis, we're seeing very high front brake temps. Can you just make sure you're off the brake pedal? We're seeing some residual brake pressure.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, I'm off the brake. Yeah, I'm not on the brake, man.
Engineer: OK, copy. We're seeing some residual brake pressure. It may be a sensor offset, but it looks like discs are actually climbing very high as well.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, something's not right. I'll come in.
Engineer: OK, so box-box.
Engineer: If you just cancel the magic, we'll come in without the magic on, just keep the B-Bow rearwards.
Engineer: The
Lewis HAMILTON: car feels like it's braking the whole time.
Engineer: Yeah, affirm, that's what we're seeing.
Engineer: Okay, so box box box. We're going for cruisers out of seven and out of nine. I'll advise when you get there It'll be cruise mode two
Engineer: the other car has got an issue with brakes and try to get some temperature in the front brakes
Engineer: We're going to stop on your marks. There will be no pistol practice as we lost half the crew
Nicholas LATIFI: There's
Engineer: a
Nicholas LATIFI: vibration on the left tire, I
Engineer: don't know if
Nicholas LATIFI: the tires aren't balanced It's a very small one
Engineer: Small one, copy, and you will have Wilhelm 2 exit of 14 Brakes are looking good, brakes are looking good I've seen your rear tire stamp, we need to drop them in the last sector Drop the rears in the last sector
Engineer: Okay, so again, we can stay recharge off just to improve the pace a little bit
Engineer: Try and sync here too if you can
Engineer: Ok, tyres are looking good, you can look at your dash, we are close to what we discussed.
Engineer: So the next push lap will be done without the RS, please.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, I have a problem.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: Scenario 12, Scenario 12 please.
Engineer: Slow down we have a problem
Engineer: Ok Dani, we push again now, we push again now.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: OK, so work the tyres on the outlap. Daniel is stopped between turns 9 and 11, halfway up the straight. He has managed to stop the car at a marshall post, so there is a gap that they can just push it through. It's currently double yellows there.
Engineer: VSC, VSC.
Engineer: Ok Pietro, so very light on the brakes please, very light on the brakes, we just need to cool them down as much as we can Copy, copy So remember you need to stay positive on the delta time, positive on the delta time
Pietro FITTIPALDI: Can I go back to pushing or roll down the brakes?
Engineer: Let's keep coasting to 11, please, and we'll review.
Engineer: Any thoughts on balance?
Esteban OCON: It is still a bit loose, I would say, but it's used tyres.
Engineer: Copy. Russell, two and a half seconds behind you, time lap.
Robert KUBICA: I have D-rating before last corner and exit of the last corner.
Engineer: We need SOC 4, SOC 4.
Engineer: That's P3 Carlos, similar slow lap to last time, nice slow, slow lap.
Lando NORRIS: I'd oversteer into every single corner.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I prefer to cool the tyres than keep temperature. I worry about the brakes a little more. Time for one more lap, yeah?
Engineer: Time for one more lap. For turn 11 and 14 try and release the brakes more to avoid pitching the car, more stability. Okay, next car is Verstappen on an out lap so you can manage the tyres through sector 3. Suggest a little bit of brake warm up before opening the lap, same as last time.
Engineer: Check on it on the next straight a bit of full throttle to charge
Engineer: Okay Pietro, we need to drive around the box, we need to drive around the box So just follow the guy's instructions. Once you stop, we'll do a pre-start rev check, but just follow the guy's instructions driving around the box
Engineer: The last outlap we were probably a little bit lower on the fronts than we wanted. So far you're OK to let them cool.
Engineer: So we're happy with these tyre temps now to maintain these. The wind has picked back up to 10 kph, same direction, 10 kph wind.
Engineer: Target 0-0, good work on the brakes, so as expected a couple of cars went out in front, Stroll, Russell, bid exit Ok, you will be close to the pit, Stroll, Russell, bid exit, 0-0
Engineer: So currently a P6, Valtteri's lap time was a 39.6 on the hard tyre, he did have a mistake at turns 12 and 13.
Engineer: I
Sergio PEREZ: have loose belts.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Mick SCHUMACHER: I have the thing from my glove that came off.
Engineer: Okay, we should box then and we'll hand it over to someone and then you'll go again. So we need to box if you have that thing loose in your cockpit. Okay, you're in sync with the cars behind.
Engineer: Carlos we see some loss of CLF in turn one exit looks similar in turn two and turn three. What do you think we should do? I think try and open L up suggest green shape two
Engineer: Carlos, I suggest we box and we can prepare the car for high fuel. Lando opening a lap, 4 seconds.
Carlos SAINZ: What lap time did he do?
Engineer: 39.3, 39.35, he's P11.
Carlos SAINZ: I don't know, I had so much honesty.
Engineer: Do you want to try one more lap with more flap angle or prepare the car for high fuel?
Carlos SAINZ: I think it's worth a try, just to see how the car feels.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Engine 9, position 1. Engine 9, position 1.
Carlos SAINZ: What lap time did other people do in this compound?
Engineer: Stroll and Perez 38.8 Ocon 38.5 Raikkonen 39.2
Engineer: Okay, so again, just think about working your fronts when you can.
Engineer: In this lap all the exits were very good. Except
Daniil KVYAT: turn 11 I think.
Engineer: Yeah, but 14 was good.
Engineer: How do your tyres feel Alex? Any vibration? No, all good.
Engineer: OK, so feedback on that first lap was all good until maybe we were braked a bit deep into turn 8. So just think about looking at the exit at turn 9. The compromise looked a bit too much towards 8.
Engineer: Check if we think a bit more management in turn two and three.
Alexander ALBON: Just massive torquals
Engineer: Okay, understood so recharge on and I think we'll go for another double cool this time Okay, so Hamilton. Looks like I go out the corners and it's stuck there. Hamilton on your tail three behind watch your mirrors now
Engineer: Strat Mode 10, Strat Mode 10, this is for a different deployment schedule
Engineer: And Esteban, if the balance is significantly wrong in the first couple of laps, we'd be happy to do a pit stop to adjust.
Esteban OCON: Yep, understood.
Engineer: so check we think we're quite fast we are fast you were nine tenths faster than Norris's first lap and your second and third lap were quicker than the two Mercedes on the hard
Engineer: So temperatures are coming down nicely now.
Daniil KVYAT: When I downshift to second between 5 and 6, there was a bit of grabbing, but just keep monitoring this in the next few laps.
Engineer: Copy. We need a multi B12 position 3. Multi B12 position 3.
Engineer: And with this set of tyres we will stay out for the start on the grid.
Engineer: So Norris and Ocon are only on lap three of their run but currently they're a lot slower than you. Your last lap Mercedes was only two tenths quicker.
Engineer: and click the overtake now. Click overtake.
Engineer: OK, and let's think about our time management now, Max. Lift off.
Engineer: Check out we think the double lift is best
Engineer: So in terms of pace, very similar to Valtteri, haven't got a target, not many other hard runners at the moment.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, I went a bit wide last corner.
Engineer: Copy.
Charles LECLERC: Tell me every lap how many laps remaining, I want to drive things.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Just watch for rear snaps out of turn 7 and turn 9.
Carlos SAINZ: Are they degrading much?
Engineer: Lodeg on Perez, lap 8, 143.8. Lando lap 5, 144.8.
Engineer: And five laps to go.
Engineer: Ok Nicky, we're happy with what you're doing in time management, try a lift into 17 please, try a lift into 17.
Engineer: What's the limitation Danny? In
Daniil KVYAT: front overheating is lazy, not rotating. And traction Danny.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: How's the balance, Lance?
Lance STROLL: It's
Engineer: a
Lance STROLL: bit on the under-zero side.
Engineer: Diff mid 4. Suggest diff mid 4.
Engineer: Get diff entry 4 for rotation. Diff entry 4. Now
Daniil KVYAT: the balance is opening way too much. Entry instability now everywhere and then rush out.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: The active gear went off Multibee 8, gearbox 5, let's revert when you can, Multibee 8, gearbox 5
Engineer: Verstappen high fuel 1.4 behind. Try torque 9. Torque 9 when you can. More engine braking. Starting last timed lap. Last timed lap.
Engineer: Ok, only place we can do a little bit better with the rear spin is between 8 and 9, the next corner, between 8 and 9 we can do a little bit more for the rear tyres.
Pierre GASLY: How is the pace?
Engineer: The pace is very good, Danny 44.8, your pace 44.1.
Engineer: OK and now cool the car please, cool the car and we are going round to the grid.
Alexander ALBON: OK, still feels like, I don't know if it's crazy, but you know what the left hand is, we have so much on the steer
Engineer: OK, understood
Engineer: Okay so you will be the first car that gets around to the grid. Switches are good. We would like one burnout using the overtake button please. Click the overtake and one burnout and then we want to be on the left-hand side as far forward as you can please. Left-hand side as far forward as you can.
Pietro FITTIPALDI: Copy, should I go to mode slow now?
Engineer: Yep, you can go to mode slow now, yep. And just remember, you can't leave the grid box until the grid space in front of you is clear. And go as far as you can. Yeah, I got you. Cool.
Pietro FITTIPALDI: Okay.
Engineer: So, from the left hand side, left hand side.
Pietro FITTIPALDI: Left hand, okay.
Engineer: Okay, good job, Mick. Good start. You can go to Mode Slow, Mode Slow, and then we'll do CSL 5, 5th gear.
Engineer: Box now Mick box now practice pit stop hold brake pressure hold brake pressure in the stop
Engineer: That was a nice attack of the box there Lance, that was a good entry into the box
Engineer: Good job mate, good first FP1
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