British Grand Prix 2020: Practice 2 team radio
38 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the British Grand Prix 2020, across 15 drivers. Pierre GASLY had the most, with 5.
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
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 5 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Can
Daniel RICCIARDO: I try another throttle map? Just last corner was quite difficult.
Engineer: Okay, understood. I'll give you feedback.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, that was dirty from Sepp. Yeah,
Engineer: very much, very much, I agree.
Lando NORRIS: I got quite a few vibrations on these tyres I think.
Engineer: OK, understood, we're checking now. And we have no concerns from our side, does it feel too bad to run your side?
Lando NORRIS: No, it's not too bad, I'm just saying, compared to what it was like last session. OK, understood. It's a lot worse over the bumps, it just feels like I've got vibrations everywhere.
Engineer: Carlos, wind as we predicted, similar direction to FP1, intensity is stronger.
Alexander ALBON: We've picked up quite a lot of understeer in mid-corner and low speed.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I made that so much understeer, it's insane. Low speed.
Alexander ALBON: We've picked up quite a lot of understeer in mid-corner and low speed.
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, there's something loose in the cockpit.
Engineer: Okay,
Sebastian VETTEL: I think I caught it. It's on my left foot, so
Engineer: we can have a look.
Engineer: I'm up to
George RUSSELL: a fort
Engineer: Complete mess. Yeah Bucks
Valtteri BOTTAS: I think we might box, not sure the tyres are going to be any better, I'm not sure. Very fun.
Pierre GASLY: Feels to me like a bit more understeer than 13 and 15.
Engineer: Agreed.
Pierre GASLY: The rest, a bit... I don't have a clear opinion.
Engineer: Ok, copy that. You can box.
Engineer: and we have tailwind turn six
Engineer: How was the balance, Alex? How was the balance?
Alexander ALBON: Felt like a bit too much understeer, mid-corner and low speed still, but it's not bad, it's just Turn 3. Maybe the front tyres were a bit cold, the rest of the track was pretty good, just I wasn't on
Engineer: the
Alexander ALBON: limit enough.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Right.
Romain GROSJEAN: Oh, I did it on purpose, mate. That's so f***ing childish. So childish.
Engineer: Yellows ahead Max, back it out, yellows ahead, Albon in the wall, turn 15, back it out,
Max VERSTAPPEN: red flag. OK, I'm boxing, I'm boxing, OK.
Engineer: OK Alex, you OK? I can see the car's damaged.
Alexander ALBON: Yeah, I'm fine.
Engineer: OK. Just lost the rear unit.
Romain GROSJEAN: Red flag, red flag. Okay, I passed the box. Yeah, sorry, terrible timing. Yeah, that's alright. It's the other child that didn't really help. He's got the fastest car, doesn't need to do that.
Engineer: Okay, I think Hamilton is staying there now. It looks like he's staying there now. He's being nice
Esteban OCON: Copy. There is cracking like if the cable is broken or something on the radio.
Engineer: Copy that.
Lance STROLL: Grant, make a note after the session, we've got to check the left mirror, it's falling down.
Lance STROLL: Ah, I missed the box.
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: thought it was the next one.
Carlos SAINZ: You're tired the bridges are sky-high
Engineer: But
George RUSSELL: this bit of vibration, front right.
Engineer: Other cars showing high deg on this tyre. 133.5 is good pace for this age of tyre. Good pace for this age of tyre.
Carlos SAINZ: OK. Feels bad here.
Engineer: Max, can we box please? Box this lap, keep up the pace on the wind. Can
Max VERSTAPPEN: you take some front wing out, it's so on the nose.
Engineer: Yeah, box.
Carlos SAINZ: Picking up a lot of vibrations from the blisters.
Engineer: Copy. Carlos, those blisters no concern for reliability, carry on.
Carlos SAINZ: OK.
Engineer: And we will need to do a tyre saving, turns 11.15.
Charles LECLERC: Guys, I'm trying.
Engineer: It's
Charles LECLERC: so, so, so, so difficult.
Carlos SAINZ: Wow, I have a big blister at
Engineer: the
Carlos SAINZ: rear
Engineer: And just a reminder to stay off all the curbs.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I'm right in his a**.
Engineer: So we are same pace as Verstappen on the medium
Engineer: just
Daniel RICCIARDO: struggling a bit more with the rear so far
Engineer: okay understood just for wind is picking up a bit here
Sebastian VETTEL: Check loss of power before turn 12.
Lewis HAMILTON: There's a lot of heat coming from the cockpit.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Nicholas LATIFI: I spun but I'm okay
Engineer: I
Nicholas LATIFI: mean, they're flat spotted a bit, but they're okay to do the start. It's still drivable, it's not bad.
Pierre GASLY: Well, something strange happened with the engine?
Engineer: Yeah, just saw that. I will ask Rai-T.
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