Bahrain Grand Prix 2020: Practice 1 team radio
56 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2020, across 18 drivers. Alexander ALBON had the most, with 8.
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 · 8 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 6 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 5 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Robert KUBICA · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Roy NISSANY · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay for Cha-John, Cha-John Magnussen behind, he's three seconds behind
Daniil KVYAT: Okay, pull toggle is very bad for turn one, very poor and The last corner is shockingly bad with the rear slip
Engineer: He's such a good guy. He gives you a tour when he's on the outlab. Always nice.
Engineer: are you okay are you okay yeah
Romain GROSJEAN: i'm okay it's completely gone okay check vibration i'll come back slowly
Engineer: Ok thank you, next one is Norris on outlap, and we need a good braking please where you can
Engineer: You were target minus one both initial throttle and drive out were good
Engineer: Let's have a go at this next lap, we haven't really got time to do another cool down lap, so when Norris, he's on your tail so recharge off, recharge off and you're good to go.
Engineer: And just for reference Esteban, you are currently P10. You are the fastest car on hard tyres.
Engineer: Strat 12, Strat 12, stop in the box, hit the marks.
Engineer: OK Esteban, practice your pit entry from turn 14. Esteban in. Copy that Esteban, practice your stop in position and then go to P1 please.
Engineer: And recommend the rearward B-Bell adjust for turn 10.
Engineer: Warm front brakes where you can
Engineer: And it feels like the wind is just picking up a bit.
Engineer: Suggest left hand side toggle turn 13 to help rotation left hand side toggle turn 13
Engineer: so one thing Lando is a slightly shorter lift in turn six but a bigger lift in seven fairly close on lap time maybe just a few milliseconds in Lando's favor Carlos but he could try the other approach through there
Engineer: Suggest to avoid the turn 6 apex kerb. Avoid the apex kerb turn 6.
Lando NORRIS: I need to go down, down two.
Engineer: Okay understood, on this tyre I only need to do one more time lap. Do you want to do the front wing adjust now? Okay yes. Yeah okay, so minor purple C13 position six, purple C13 position six. And back to purple C1 and Lando just check your baseline brake balance.
Engineer: So again, just think about your front warm-up, front brakes, give them a good work.
Alexander ALBON: Drivability feels pretty good.
Engineer: Yeah, understood. We think it's because of the motor in. So you can do recharge on. Recharge on, please.
Engineer: Hey Danny double cool down will be double cool down
Engineer: OK, recharge on, recharge on, and we'll cool the tyres down. Beep out six, please, beep out six.
Engineer: So strut three, you're good to go.
Engineer: And Dani, we went out, track limit turn 4, so the lap time is deleted.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, Michael, get rid of this f***ing track limits.
Alexander ALBON: There's not much difference in the tyres.
Engineer: Yep, understood, I can see that from the lap time.
Engineer: Carlos test green shape one for turn 11 12 and 13 green shape one for turn 11 12 and 13 and Reset to green shape two for the final corner Copy
Carlos SAINZ: happy with that
Engineer: Your perforce sectors are 1 and 2, just down a tenth in the final sector, so that was braking minimum speed in the final corner and then braking turn 13.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah lovely, I think the tyres are flat spotted.
Engineer: could be rain approaching last corner and check for spits on the visor
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, tyres just don't feel good. Even one lap on these tyres on this track, we know how bad it is, so yeah.
Engineer: Big, big, big, big, big on the steer, what should I do? Shape, diff, torque. Ok, I'll come back to you.
Engineer: We think Torx 6 could help you out. Torx 6.
Sebastian VETTEL: Coming in for a flap adjust. Is
Engineer: that essential? Because we need to complete this program with these tyres and then we can go on the other side.
Sebastian VETTEL: Still counts as a flying lap, doesn't it?
Engineer: No, because it's in an in-lap.
Sebastian VETTEL: Coming in for flap adjust, plus three
Engineer: clicks please. Is that essential, because we need to complete this program with these tyres, and then we can go on the other side?
Sebastian VETTEL: Still counts as a flying lap, doesn't it?
Engineer: No, because it's in an in-lap.
Sebastian VETTEL: OK, staying out then.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Engineer: And just getting reports of very light rain.
Engineer: So checking no rain no more rain expected
Engineer: I can
Lance STROLL: try one more, but I would need a double cool.
Engineer: Warm the front brakes
Engineer: And you can see... I'm on the turret. Ok, copy. Your fronts are a bit high. If you can do anything. Traffic behind is good.
Robert KUBICA: Yeah, I cannot do a lot by front tires. I can cool down rears but... Do
Engineer: your best, yeah.
Engineer: Ok Robert, mode charge and I suggest box, I doubt we can improve the lap time, let me know. And if you want to box we need mode S.
Robert KUBICA: Well, it will be difficult to improve, but I can learn something for me, not for the team, so it's up to you. Yeah, the fronts are understeer here, hot, for whatever reason.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, we need to fix the engine braking, it doesn't work.
Engineer: It
Pierre GASLY: gives me more negative force.
Engineer: Ok, we are looking now.
Engineer: Fail, 10, fail, fail, 10, fail, update on tyres when you can. They
Pierre GASLY: are not great, just the tractions are very difficult.
Engineer: Copy that, we'll do one more time, one more time.
Engineer: And clutch paddle 1% deep.
Engineer: Engine 11, position 5, engine 11, position 5.
Daniil KVYAT: I have
Engineer: a
Daniil KVYAT: big lack of brake efficiency everywhere.
Engineer: And how's the balance so far?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, bit of a mixed bag, but yeah I feel like I'm front limited early in the lap.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Charles LECLERC: Oh, what the hell is he doing?
Engineer: Perez is five seconds behind. He might be a good car to try and get a toe-off at the start of your time-lapse.
Engineer: It's a bit more management in turn 12, bit more management in turn 12.
Engineer: Do you feel any change in the car on this run, question? I'm
Alexander ALBON: just struggling so much with fronts. I mean, it's
Engineer: not
Alexander ALBON: going to stir again, but it's not a fair test really because of the day on the fronts.
Engineer: OK, understood. If nothing's changing, then we'll box this lap and try and go back on the change. So if you've got a good feeling for it, we'll box this lap. Let us know.
Alexander ALBON: Yes, OK, box. OK.
Engineer: And compared to Sebastian, we should try to improve apex turn 4 and 6, Sebastian.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, but compared to which lap, I've had one lap in traffic and one lap with all tyres, so... Yes, but compared to which lap, which lap are you taking, the first one or the second one?
Engineer: Your second lap, watch for traffic with Latifi and then Hamilton.
Engineer: Ah, yeah, area's already completely going Ok dude, let's increase our management a bit if we can Yeah, where? Focus on rear left tyre Yeah, if he doesn't... I think we should box to remove 1% A-ball Ok, we can box, we can box now around the box Yeah, box, box, box
Engineer: And Miner, Scenario 9 please, Scenario 9.
Engineer: Okay Alex, so we've got time for a fast lap, a cool down, and then we'll be boxing, but we'll push on that in lap. Okay, so we'll get ready, assume it's a fast low fast, but we will box on the second fast.
Engineer: OK, so he'll be straight out and you will have Sainz, Nisseni and Giovinazzi approaching Turn 1 hot laps. So three quick cars coming now. That's one, that's two, one more. OK, clear track behind. Thank you. Next one behind, Magnussen, 15 behind. Magnussen is high fuel. There's a big gap behind him if you need it.
Lando NORRIS: I need to come down on front wing. Down three.
Engineer: Understood. OK, Lando, you can come in now. You can come in. The box is busy, so we're going to pull up in front of Carlos, in front of Carlos. Lando, did you say down three? Down three?
Lando NORRIS: Yep.
Engineer: OK, it's happening.
Engineer: So if possible just practice turn 14 to pit lane entry.
Engineer: You
Nicholas LATIFI: can obviously see a vibration on the front left blast pump, trying to get it out of lockdown.
Engineer: OK, and after the final corner, can we press and hold the overtake and push until turn 2 please?
Engineer: Thank you, everyone. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good job.
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