Sakhir Grand Prix 2020: Practice 2 team radio
87 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Sakhir Grand Prix 2020, across 18 drivers. 84 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Pietro FITTIPALDI had the most, with 10.
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
- Pietro FITTIPALDI · Haas · 10 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 10 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 9 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 8 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 8 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 6 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 4 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Jack AITKEN · Williams · 3 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: That went to K2 plus. Good man, good man, and we're the only car on track.
Engineer: Okay, dude, let's keep pushing. Let's push again. Still no other cars on track
Pietro FITTIPALDI: The bounce seems okay, a bit of high-speed understeer into turn 5, bit of push understeer there.
Engineer: Ok, 50 paldi is coming, he is 7 seconds behind, pushing It's now 6 seconds, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Engineer: Consider left-hand side toggle for the final corner. Better at that than... Magnuson's low lap. ...than me. Yes, prefer left-hand side toggle, last corner.
Daniil KVYAT: A lot of traffic.
Engineer: I saw Danny cool down, charge on, cool down.
Engineer: Good warm-up on the brakes, and you can open more for traffic, which are done in seconds.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lando NORRIS: I got a lot of damage to the floor. I think some bits just flew off.
Engineer: OK, understood. Be careful of Carlos behind three seconds back.
Lando NORRIS: I mean, I can continue, but you're probably going to see something.
Engineer: Now, if you've seen damage, I'd like to come in, please. So box this lap and box now. Just stop on the marks.
Engineer: Sorry, the Alphonse was out in front of me. No problem, those guys are going to start pushing now, so just watch those guys coming past you, I'm going to do a cool down lap now.
Charles LECLERC: Something broke.
Charles LECLERC: Don't think I will make it to the box.
Engineer: Ok we can do double cool now, that's a good lap here We have Magnussen pushing, braking turn 1, watch your mirrors, he was good with us
Charles LECLERC: I won't arrive to the box, I hope I'll arrive to the... no I won't even arrive to the...
Engineer: Ok, got
Daniil KVYAT: a behind, what is he doing?
Engineer: Magnussen should be cooling down now
Engineer: Okay, Kvyat near pit entry. Watch for Kvyat pushing as you join the track into turn one. Kvyat close in turn one. Nice job, dude.
Engineer: I
Daniil KVYAT: warned it was a s**t
Engineer: in
Daniil KVYAT: turn 1. Traction is super poor. As soon as I touched the throttle in turn 1, it was totally s**t.
Engineer: Copy. Reels are a bit hot, so we need to be careful there.
Lando NORRIS: I got a lot of damage to the floor.
Engineer: I
Lando NORRIS: think some dates just flew off
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, look at turn 4, I had got a bit more oversteer there.
Engineer: Copy, yeah I saw that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Shift lights, begin to bright.
Engineer: Shift lights or dash display?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, the whole thing.
Engineer: Display 8, position 14. Display 8, position 1-4.
Engineer: Turn 2, we have tailwind, try to ask a less combined, and offset 7, pull toggle, we are good to push, Albon 2 in front.
Engineer: So you do pick up a little bit of a tailwind as you are just getting to the apex of turn two.
Engineer: You're on target that pulled back five percent
George RUSSELL: Mark, let's just confirm, Beaming 3 is last session's Beaming 2.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, that's correct. And just make sure you're happy on your EB setting.
Alexander ALBON: KF is completely different, there's a lot of entry
Engineer: on the street, you
Alexander ALBON: can't understand OK,
Engineer: understood Display 14, position 1 please, display 14, position 1 I'll help your apex rotation, next air behind you Iverstappen, 20 behind on the slow lap as well
Engineer: So you've got a Valtteri behind, 9 seconds, he's just on a slow lap, still currently P8, Valtteri P3 just under a tenth to him, that's still with a strat mode difference, Albon will be turn 1 now, he's on a timed I think.
George RUSSELL: Probably, when you say strat mode difference, in our favour or his favour? His favour, so
Engineer: Albon's going to be coming through, he is 6 seconds, happy to go for a double call and then go again.
Engineer: Still dropping the rear but let's get some good stops at turn 1 and turn 4 for the brakes.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have the same problem as last week out of Turn 1, just hopping.
Engineer: OK, box please.
Engineer: I won't attack the entry. Yeah, no worries. We'll be using these again.
Engineer: And we need brake temperature now down this straight. We will need to build brake temperature.
Engineer: In the last two laps we've opened the lap about 5k down compared to the option so potentially need to pick the speed up earlier at the last corner to open the lap.
Engineer: The only thing on the overlay is turn 7 entry. You could push the entry to 7 a little bit more. We'll need a good break. We'll need a good break and then it'll be go 1.
Sebastian VETTEL: I need another slow lap though. Tires are still very hot.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: It's going to be recharge off. Patience. Good to go.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I'm boxed this man Ok,
Engineer: we can do a start then So nobody behind Can
Kimi RAIKKONEN: we not do a start in the high fuel? It's much more useful
Engineer: Stop
Kimi RAIKKONEN: by?
Engineer: I
Kimi RAIKKONEN: wanna change the car Copy Box then, box No
Engineer: problem
Engineer: It's really difficult just to make it round.
Sebastian VETTEL: I lost the rear again a couple of times.
Nicholas LATIFI: Was that left back limit, or was it okay?
Engineer: I will crosscheck for the moment, no feedback from this direction.
Nicholas LATIFI: Copy.
Engineer: Spell's okay, but not the limit. He looks okay. You have another slope? Another slope?
Engineer: Okay, we could try diff 21, try diff 21 just to open the mid a little more to help the understeer.
Daniil KVYAT: I don't understand why this car in front of me has strange lights.
Engineer: Dani's Ricciardo was on a push lap.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, but he has strange lights on the rear. It's too bright.
Engineer: It's just struggling to help out mate. OK, no worries, we'll have a look.
George RUSSELL: Tractor in its paw.
Engineer: Comes
George RUSSELL: from the apex. Over rotation. Probably try a B-2.
Pietro FITTIPALDI: I couldn't quite maximise it there on the traffic.
Engineer: Yeah, there was a bit on the first lap. Don't worry dude, you've found some good time man. You're closing the gap to Kevin. Good job dude.
Pietro FITTIPALDI: Step by step.
Engineer: Yeah man, Newton knows it.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Eita, what is this? How is this possible? I have so much on the steer!
Engineer: Please take me to the procedure again. I can't neutral brakes on Yeah, pull the clutch in and keep it pulled press. Okay, select first gear All
Pietro FITTIPALDI: right, I'm here. Okay,
Engineer: cancel it. I think that we need which needs to investigate something outside. Sorry about that
Alexander ALBON: There's so much understeer.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: So just keep some temperature in the front brakes to help the fronts.
Engineer: What are we doing with DRS on this run? They're all non-DRS, non-DRS, so the first start was 4% deep.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: So we're coming in to do start, so we do start now.
Engineer: Standby. Ok, yeah, let's do that. Do
Kimi RAIKKONEN: which one? You're coming in... Yeah,
Engineer: you're coming in and we will do start.
Lando NORRIS: It's not deploying or something, I've got a problem. Understood.
Engineer: Scenario 1 please, Scenario 1, and we will box this lap.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, confirmed.
Nicholas LATIFI: Yeah but, I can't get 8th gear if I'm with the PU,
Engineer: so... Copy, copy, try to get 8th gear before turn 10 please, 8th gear before turn 10, and a Vettel pushing within 5, Vettel pushing within 5.
Sergio PEREZ: There is a piece that fell off, what I do with it on the camera Something from the camera fell off, can I bring it back? Yeah, I think you have to come through the... Or I just throw it into the...
Sebastian VETTEL: The car is a bit of
Engineer: a
Sebastian VETTEL: mid-story, so we can come in and do a start, tires need to cool down and then we decide if we go again.
Engineer: So if you want to reset DAS, the previous start was deep, then pull the back.
Engineer: Well, there's no real answers. I have nowhere near the grip that I should have, I believe. That's for all speed ranges, so not just in places where we might be able to explain the difference, and the balance is quite poor on top, so let's crank on and see what we get.
Daniil KVYAT: Drivability very poor out of turn 1 again, check it.
Engineer: Dani, one second more liftoff, one second more.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I lost
Carlos SAINZ: synchronization on the gears.
Engineer: Copy, we're looking.
Engineer: Press and hold the overtake now on the rundown to turn 10 please. Press and hold overtake.
Engineer: Do
George RUSSELL: you have a target left up?
Engineer: Start of stint, looking at high 57s
Engineer: Sir, 57.9 for Valtteri, lap 1.
Sergio PEREZ: OK, checkers, think about aero balance, let me know on aero balance. Challenge, do a big adjust, I was trolling with grief. Copy that, we'll drop aero balance more than default, copy.
Engineer: And how's the balance?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep, pretty even on both axles.
Engineer: Understood.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Rear, rear trickier to manage.
Engineer: Copy that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Mate, I don't get why I'm suddenly so slow. Is it just the tail pump which is f***ing horrible?
Engineer: I think you'll be catching some traffic now.
Engineer: Through the P-train?
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, copy.
Engineer: We
Sebastian VETTEL: can also adjust the flap.
Engineer: We
Sebastian VETTEL: can do two clicks or three clicks up.
Engineer: I'm down for it. Sorry? Three
Sebastian VETTEL: clicks.
Engineer: We just got another lap deleted. Feedback, race control, we're always on the limit at turn 8.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Through the pit lane.
Engineer: Latifi in front is on base, 1.5 seconds in front, we need to pass him as soon as possible.
Engineer: OK, box please Max, box. Keep up the pace. Front wing update please when you can.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Circling a
Engineer: little
Max VERSTAPPEN: bit left front and we'll be at high so it's not too bad.
Engineer: Esteban we'd like you to try brake four, we'd like you to try brake four but it may give you less initial bite so just be careful with that please
Engineer: Engine 2 for one lap. Engine 2.
Engineer: Bottas on hard, he's about three tenths of a lap slower than you.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, I see him.
Pietro FITTIPALDI: Pit lane, pit lane.
Engineer: So Verstappen on the soft stabilizer 58.5, now on the medium 57.5.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, music time, yeah.
Engineer: Copy, copy, we are looking at it.
Engineer: Got a spilling launch map launch map launch map on
Engineer: OK, so Russell, eight laps into his hard, he's at 58.5, 58.5.
Engineer: Okay, ahead of Arkon is Vettel. He's eight laps into his stint and he's doing 59.5. That's 1.8 slower.
Engineer: So Esteban started his stint at 58.0 and 10 laps into his stint he managed to 58.1
Engineer: So check it to make overtake button stronger. It's purple one override position one purple one override position one And then when you push the overtake push it really early early as you can on the overtake
Max VERSTAPPEN: Okay, impossible to pass there's so quick on the street
Pietro FITTIPALDI: How's my wheel spin control? Is it okay? I need to be careful on traction.
Engineer: Your wheel spin is good, compared to Kevin it's similar, nice job, it's okay. So re-locking is still building, so let's do another click forward on B bow.
Engineer: I
Pierre GASLY: took a gravel with my hand in my finger
Nicholas LATIFI: The rears are finished, there's nothing left on the rears.
Engineer: Hi Esteban, apart from the knock-off, are you having any problems with the brakes?
Esteban OCON: Apart from that, no.
Engineer: Affirm.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah prefer to box, nothing to rack here.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Okay, it was just as bad as the short run. I had front shattering as if the fronts weren't working. Lots of understeer but equally no rear on combined. Mostly exits but also some of the entries like 2 and 4. And last corner also change of direction and on traction out of 8 was quite poor.
Engineer: Yeah, good stuff guys. Yeah, very promising. That was great wasn't it? Really nice. Yeah.
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