Russian Grand Prix 2020: Practice 1 team radio
44 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Russian Grand Prix 2020, across 17 drivers. 43 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Alexander ALBON had the most, with 9.
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 · 9 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: OK Lander, we have boxed this lap for the end of the run, cool the car into 13 and into the pit lane.
Engineer: Tailwind into Turn 13
Engineer: So let's get stuck into these tires on the out lap.
Engineer: How was the balance?
Alexander ALBON: It was okay, the main issue was tipping, just too neutral, not enough traction.
Daniil KVYAT: I had a bit of grabbing from the rear in turn 13
Engineer: And we have headwind into turn two, headwind turn two.
Romain GROSJEAN: Um, I would need some help on you know what?
Esteban OCON: Quite a lot of bottoming at the moment.
Engineer: Copy that.
Alexander ALBON: The tires are already flat.
Engineer: For reference, you are currently P2, 37-27.
Engineer: What's the main, the lap time is good, but what's the main issue? How's the balance?
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: First lap just too much understeer mid-corner. Okay. Medium speed. Yeah.
Engineer: Second lap the rears. So Albon's behind, but he's on a back-off, but he's faster than you. Yeah, rears went off, understood.
Alexander ALBON: Tires feel gone, I turn five.
Engineer: OK, understood. We'll see what happens after this double cool down. OK, so we are boxing this lap for a nose change.
Engineer: we don't have a rear wing Carlos yep the rear wing is off drive carefully drive carefully Carlos slow down rear wing hanging off slow down slow down
Engineer: Carlos drive super slow drive super slow message from the FIA drive super slow
Engineer: Okay, maybe a bit of debris on track, gonna turn at seven
Max VERSTAPPEN: Why is this virtual safety car still active?
Engineer: We're still clearing up some debris.
Engineer: I
Charles LECLERC: think Romain thought it was a race.
Engineer: Hamilton flat spot, the front left turn 2, the
Sebastian VETTEL: first
Engineer: time lap.
Engineer: See
Lewis HAMILTON: these tires are done, yeah these tires are done
Engineer: and wind has picked up
Charles LECLERC: Box for minus two clicks, front wing, OK? Box for minus two clicks. Copy, box. Box.
Nicholas LATIFI: I crashed.
Engineer: Ok,
Nicholas LATIFI: happy. Are you ok? Yeah, I'm fine. Ok. Car is safe. Sorry
Engineer: guys.
Engineer: Next car behind you, Perez. He is also on soft tyres. He looks like he's getting a bit racy, but everyone else is quite slow.
Engineer: Okay, still six cars close together ahead so I would back out of it now because they will and then you can do a little bit of a Workup for turn 17 18 if you need
Engineer: And can we have big braking into turn 13 for brake 1? Big braking rather than modulation.
Romain GROSJEAN: Tell me what was that, and help me please.
Engineer: Yep, we're looking mate, we're looking.
Engineer: Why
Kimi RAIKKONEN: is not DRS working?
Engineer: Yeah, there was a yellow, but now track is clear, track is clear. There was a yellow turn 13, track is clear.
Sebastian VETTEL: I'm happy for a flap adjust, we'll basically call it there, I think similar to the Rambi 4 in terms of balance
Daniil KVYAT: A little bit too much understeer, first time lap in the first two sectors.
Engineer: Copy, we agree, let's see in the second time.
Pierre GASLY: What the f***? Seriously.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Unbelievable. What an unbelievable.
Engineer: Why
Max VERSTAPPEN: does he stay in front?
Alexander ALBON: Just the tires are gone Yeah, I didn't have the grip of the previous lap in the other places as well, but Especially as soon as
Engineer: I
Alexander ALBON: went through 13 I had nothing
Engineer: Okay, understood I'm gonna suggest that these tires have probably passed their best so We should probably get on the high field now
Engineer: I can't call the rears for some reason.
George RUSSELL: Rear is light, exit 7, entry 8, and throughout 10, I'm currently deaf, I feed 1, I'll go 10 now.
Engineer: Okay Lando, you have Grosjean plus nine. He's also on a slow lap. I suggest after the nose box change We do one sort of single push lap. We then do a cool down lap and then go into continuous laps
Daniil KVYAT: Look at this b**ch. Look at this b**ch.
Engineer: Come on.
Daniil KVYAT: Seriously.
Engineer: It was an iFuel, Danny. iFuel. Ah,
Daniil KVYAT: okay then. Sorry.
Engineer: I think you can work the tyres a little bit more Max, I think we can find a little bit more margin than this for a race start
George RUSSELL: My left lower back is getting very warm
George RUSSELL: Right, left lower back is getting very warm
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, we're in traffic with Charles.
Engineer: Hamilton on the hard tyre, reference laps 41.0
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I
Romain GROSJEAN: don't know what's going on,
Engineer: we
Romain GROSJEAN: need to check everything mate. I can't do it, I'm staying on track.
Engineer: Copy, we'll review everything over lunch.
Engineer: Any more info on Grosjean, please?
Alexander ALBON: No, just, I don't know, I mean, he's checking flag and he's, does a really late move to defend it from me, and I have
Engineer: to
Alexander ALBON: hit the brakes to avoid him.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
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