Bahrain Grand Prix 2020: Practice 2 team radio
59 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2020, across 16 drivers. 57 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 8 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 7 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Valtteri BOTTAS: The steering is still a bit right hand down.
Engineer: Copy that, we can have a look.
Engineer: everybody's on prototypes apart from Giovinazzi is on a hard but everybody around you is on protos same as you
Max VERSTAPPEN: Can the dash brightness go down a little bit?
Engineer: Display 8, position 12 for the dash.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Do you want consistent running right? Consistent running yes please
Romain GROSJEAN: F***ing Mercedes f***ing
Engineer: Press oil pump button, press oil pump button
Engineer: Carlos, headwind has died down in turn 4. Wind is a bit calmer now and wind direction is pretty much parallel to the start of the straight. Yeah, I can feel that.
Carlos SAINZ: You're also into turn 11, there's less headwind and I miss the apex.
Pierre GASLY: Why doesn't let me pass this what the hell what the hell is he doing? Yeah, what the
Engineer: Ha! You
Max VERSTAPPEN: should have seen that!
Engineer: We do a double cooldown, double cooldown. You have a push toggle for turn 6 and 13 for the understeer. Push toggle.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, but I will not be able to go back on time before turn 8.
Engineer: Copy, can you do it turn 13?
Daniil KVYAT: Turn 13, I use the push toggle already now. Copy, sorry, copy.
Sebastian VETTEL: These tyres had massive understeer so I would come up a little bit, but I don't think these tyres are any relevant.
Alexander ALBON: The low speed feels pretty neutral.
Engineer: Okay, Reichen approaching now. Watch your mirrors, Reichen, and now.
Engineer: How's the low speed balance changed during the run? Question?
Alexander ALBON: No, but the medium speed, I'm getting so much understeer now. Yeah,
Engineer: okay, understood. Max also has the same feedback on these tyres. So understeer has grown compared to normal.
Max VERSTAPPEN: He's out in front of me, he's drifting very nicely!
Engineer: Yeah, Hamilton.
Engineer: Don't
Lewis HAMILTON: don't grip on here.
Engineer: Urgent. Default 0-3-0-3.
Lando NORRIS: Confirm.
Engineer: and opportunity focus exit of turn 10 pushing the entry less will help
George RUSSELL: Brakes felt average, traction improved, still a little bit neutral mid to exit Copy, it is within 2 now
Engineer: So the wind is a lot less than it was this morning. You've only got maybe a 5K tailwind into turn 1 this morning. It's 20. So there's a bit of a difference there compared to this morning.
Engineer: What do you think about the tyres so far?
Alexander ALBON: They just lose so much front grip on the second push.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Not not happening
Carlos SAINZ: What lap time are the others doing on this medium?
Engineer: Best lap time on this medium is Perez 29.5 Don't think we quite got the scenario we expected, scenario switch is good
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah 29.5 is quicker, I don't think we can get there on this compound
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, you didn't tell me about the Williams here
Engineer: On Dany's 1 tenth behind, only place we lost compared to Dany was a little bit entry turn 8, on the first push lap. I think we pushed the entry of turn 4 a bit too much on this last lap, same in turn 9-10.
Engineer: OK, Span, no threats behind at the moment. Just on turn one locking, our only suggestion is to try to get more of the braking done earlier, so hitting a higher peak pressure initially, slowing the car down a little bit more at the start so you can come off the brakes earlier.
Esteban OCON: Copy, yep.
Engineer: Are you still understeer limited?
Daniil KVYAT: Well now also a bit of rear came and also the traction becomes weaker now after the first push up so it's a bit of everything now but I have more snaps and in those corners there turn 11 I had a bit more wash out than before. Like I don't think this tyre is going to get a lot better so.
Engineer: Do you think we are going to learn more in the next push?
Daniil KVYAT: Not a lot to be honest not a lot but we can try.
Engineer: Let's try and if it's a waste of time we box.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah exactly let's decide after the third turn.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Just a reminder to make sure the brakes are ready.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, understood.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Okay, you have to tell Elliot about the traffic I was in, turn 1.
Engineer: Okay.
Sebastian VETTEL: Getting quite heavy vibrations at the end of straights.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: And how was the balance?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, it was more consistent than the morning and less aggressive
Engineer: Ok, so watch out for Norris, 4 seconds behind, 3 seconds now Yep,
Daniel RICCIARDO: that's cool The marker was for turn 6 It was a bit of understeer with ride, turn 6
Engineer: Yep, copy that
Engineer: The
Sebastian VETTEL: grip was a bit worse second lap, not too bad, but I played around a little bit and messed up some corners.
Engineer: Vibrations are still there, I am.
Sebastian VETTEL: They are getting a bit worse, to be honest. We are the new lockups. I think we should be seeing them.
Engineer: We are preparing to rebalance also this one, for the high fuel.
Engineer: So yeah, temperatures still up high, so we'll go for a second cool down lap, I suggest we box this lap, drive through the pit lane please, box this lap.
Engineer: OK, we'll do a double slowmix. It's a
Max VERSTAPPEN: red line of power, before the line.
Engineer: Understood, copy.
Engineer: And I don't understand. I don't get it. There was no reason to stay in front of you
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, we lost two
Engineer: tents. I'm really sorry. There was no reason to stay there
Engineer: Ok Alex, are you ok?
Alexander ALBON: I'm fine
Engineer: Ok mate
Alexander ALBON: Oh, sorry guys.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, I just saw I don't know if it was a dog or a cat maybe it's for that
Engineer: I don't see it. Or
Sebastian VETTEL: should we say... Who let the dogs out?
Engineer: If
Sebastian VETTEL: I had known that dogs were allowed, I would have brought mine, but he's in quarantine, so it wouldn't work out.
Engineer: Yep, we're still good to do the single lap.
George RUSSELL: Good.
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: guess it depends how good their dog-catching skills are.
Engineer: There was a dog on track. It's not a joke, it's a reality.
Engineer: So it looks like we've got a loose dog on track.
Lewis HAMILTON: Open stop Roscoe.
Engineer: No, it's not him.
Engineer: Okay, I'm drivable.
Engineer: Oh my word. Yeah, okay.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Jesus Christ, what is this horse doing? Unbelievable.
Engineer: OK, Max, we will box this lap. Keep up the pace, please. Keep pushing on the wind and box this lap.
Engineer: Can I have a front wing update?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that's all good. Tyre is just dying.
Daniil KVYAT: Just losing overall grip, a bit of everything, entering stability, understeer, poor traction.
Engineer: Ok Dani, everybody is struggling the same way, similar lap times to competitors.
Engineer: That's a P1, three and a half tenths to Verstappen P2. We have 13 minutes remaining, I suggest we get at least a check on the long run balance, let me know what you think.
Engineer: Update on tires again when you can They are dead
Daniil KVYAT: I have so much over 0, I'm barely turning in the corners anymore, so
Engineer: what do you wanna do? Entry 8, entry 8
Nicholas LATIFI: The rears are already gone, it's crazy!
Engineer: So matching the step in initial lapse
Engineer: Okay, Kevin just some general feedback if you focus on the exits and push the entries less just give that a try We'll have two more timed two more timed
George RUSSELL: It's just the front's
Engineer: are
George RUSSELL: too cold.
Engineer: Copy, one lap remaining.
Carlos SAINZ: What was the people doing on the C3?
Engineer: This is quite variable, so we'll have a look after, but Racing Point were able to do low 36s for 10 laps, let's say, and then they look like they have a bit more deg after that.
Pierre GASLY: All right, they stopped me at the bridge when I was almost past like okay,
Engineer: okay, that's stupid.
Pierre GASLY: But anyway
Pierre GASLY: All right, they stopped me at the bridge when I was almost past like okay. Okay, that's stupid. But anyway
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