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Team radio transcript

Italian Grand Prix 2020: Practice 1 team radio

28 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Italian Grand Prix 2020, across 12 drivers. Alexander ALBON had the most, with 4.

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Alexander ALBON: Initial balance feels pretty good, just ties the cold.

  2. Lance STROLLRacing Point

    Engineer: Tyres are still on the low side in temperature tyres on the low side

  3. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Alexander ALBON: A bit different locking in the brake, turn 1, tyres feel a bit cold through there OK,

    Engineer: understood

  4. Daniil KVYATAlphaTauri

    Daniil KVYAT: The rear is a bit limiting factor at the moment, between 1 and 2, the reaction is quite good, but the rear a bit snaps in between the two.

  5. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Engineer: We have a bit of a delta on the brakes, we may have a bit of pulling turn 1.

  6. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Most time to find Carlos is the last two corners. First half of the lap looks good. Last two corners, maybe a little bit also in Lesmo 2.

  7. Lance STROLLRacing Point

    Lance STROLL: What were they doing? That was so dangerous, what they were doing into Turn 4. Two cars side by side like that.

    Engineer: Understood, we'll report it.

  8. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Alexander ALBON: Everyone's not very good at getting out of the way.

    Engineer: Yeah, I know, it's Hamilton again, understood.

  9. Esteban OCONRenault

    Engineer: So Verstappen went off and took his front wing off against the barrier. He got going again, he's ahead of the queue of cars in front of you.

  10. Esteban OCONRenault

    Esteban OCON: McLaren didn't make too much effort behind to stop well

  11. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: I

    Lando NORRIS: think it's it's getting quite dangerous with how slow people are going and they're just driving on the racing line and so on I don't know. I think they need to say something

    Engineer: Okay, understood

  12. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Engineer: Possible gravel exit turn 5.

  13. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay Carlos, so obviously we're leaving with the pack. Make sure you warm the front right on the outlap where you can.

  14. Romain GROSJEANHaas

    Romain GROSJEAN: OK, the bomb is... Am I going to get a two on the next nub anywhere or not?

    Engineer: Unlikely. Albon two seconds back on a push.

  15. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: OK Carlos, we're sticking to the plan. Lando currently the car behind, so you can let him through. Lando, get me a tow already.

    Carlos SAINZ: I've had a

    Engineer: bit of a bad one, because I had traffic jamming the whole lap. Yeah, copy. He was trying to do a timed lap, it was a bad lap, so he thought he'd just help you out. So this time we'll do it properly.

  16. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: And we are boxed this lap.

    Lando NORRIS: No, I want to go again. Ok, understood. I've

    Engineer: done

    Lando NORRIS: one lap.

  17. Alexander ALBONRed Bull

    Alexander ALBON: I would like to try something just a bit more understeer with cornering, switching for 5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

    Engineer: Understood

    Alexander ALBON: It's alright in 11, it's actually pretty good, it's just that medium speed where I just need to lean on the fronts

  18. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: Okay, I want to come back on the chain because now the front is not biting at the apex anymore

    Engineer: Okay, understood from our numbers it looks pretty good, but cope with that

    Pierre GASLY: Yeah, we'll have to get the stability from somewhere else, but Yeah, I'm giving away too much front grip at the apex

  19. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: So expected pace will be low 25s.

  20. Daniil KVYATAlphaTauri

    Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, I think for my shot it's to the left, but...

  21. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: A reminder for management of the 11 and 6.

  22. Carlos SAINZMcLaren

    Engineer: For second chicane consider right hand side toggle for stability. Right hand side toggle, second chicane.

  23. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: Did we lock the rear or was there something wrong with the DRS closing? Oh, OK, we're having a look. So, Bottas 5 seconds behind. OK, after Bottas you have the two Williams. But how far they are from him? They are 2 seconds behind Bottas, 2 or 4 seconds behind you. OK, the only thing we saw in turn 1 is you didn't deactivate manually the DRS. Yes, I know, I know, but did he have an issue because of that or not? No, no, it doesn't look like. And mode push, all OK, Kimi, all OK.

  24. Sergio PEREZRacing Point

    Engineer: Let's check it. Consider one click forward brake balance, one click forward brake balance to help the rear tyres.

  25. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I think he's stuck

    Engineer: Copy. Okay, it looks like he might be moving Yeah, he's back on track Prep yourself for another lap, please Max

  26. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: Lando we've had multiple warnings track limits turn 11

  27. Esteban OCONRenault

    Engineer: Ok Esteban, I'm going to ask you to press and hold the overtake button out of turn 7 for 5 seconds please.

  28. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Engineer: That's the checkered flag, keep pushing on the inlap if you want.

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