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
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Alexander ALBON: Initial balance feels pretty good, just ties the cold.
Engineer: Tyres are still on the low side in temperature tyres on the low side
Alexander ALBON: A bit different locking in the brake, turn 1, tyres feel a bit cold through there OK,
Engineer: understood
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.
Engineer: We have a bit of a delta on the brakes, we may have a bit of pulling turn 1.
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.
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.
Alexander ALBON: Everyone's not very good at getting out of the way.
Engineer: Yeah, I know, it's Hamilton again, understood.
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.
Esteban OCON: McLaren didn't make too much effort behind to stop well
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
Engineer: Possible gravel exit turn 5.
Engineer: Okay Carlos, so obviously we're leaving with the pack. Make sure you warm the front right on the outlap where you can.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Engineer: So expected pace will be low 25s.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, I think for my shot it's to the left, but...
Engineer: A reminder for management of the 11 and 6.
Engineer: For second chicane consider right hand side toggle for stability. Right hand side toggle, second chicane.
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.
Engineer: Let's check it. Consider one click forward brake balance, one click forward brake balance to help the rear tyres.
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
Engineer: Lando we've had multiple warnings track limits turn 11
Engineer: Ok Esteban, I'm going to ask you to press and hold the overtake button out of turn 7 for 5 seconds please.
Engineer: That's the checkered flag, keep pushing on the inlap if you want.
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