Sakhir Grand Prix 2020: Practice 3 team radio
23 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Sakhir Grand Prix 2020, across 11 drivers. Pietro FITTIPALDI had the most, with 7.
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 · 7 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: How is the balance?
Pietro FITTIPALDI: The balance is pretty good.
Engineer: I
Pietro FITTIPALDI: just kind of had to get used to the speed a little bit again, but the balance is pretty good right now.
Engineer: and Pietro we think for the next push when we get to the next push lap we think left hand toggle in one could help you
Pietro FITTIPALDI: copy
Engineer: Our fronts were just a little bit on the cool side at the beginning of that push lap dude, that's why we're asking for a little bit quicker slowdowns.
Pietro FITTIPALDI: Yeah I over pushed a bit in
Engineer: the
Pietro FITTIPALDI: last corner, lost all my time there.
Engineer: Copy that.
Pietro FITTIPALDI: Yeah, I mean, I locked up. I got a bit of vibration on it.
Engineer: Okay Pietro we could try pushing again on the next lap we just need a bit of speed into the last corner and we'll just judge the vibration if you feel it's too much please say It's quite a bit but I mean I could try doing a lap like this
Lando NORRIS: It's everything okay? It's like not... it's quite... like doesn't feel clean. Understood, checking.
Engineer: Just a message exit of turn 8 was close to exceeding track limit
Lando NORRIS: I think I'm
Engineer: going
Lando NORRIS: to have to do another cool down after this just to be in phase.
Engineer: Okay understood, they might go for two as well though, Ocon two.
Nicholas LATIFI: Guys, come on, with Jack, what was that? We need better communication. He was weaving in
Engineer: front
Nicholas LATIFI: of me in the last corner. Yeah, understood. Focus on your cool, mate. We'll talk about it after.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, that was a bit scrappy with traffic, but the tyre's
Engineer: not right. There's a metal car behind, two and a half.
Carlos SAINZ: Box 4, front wing.
Engineer: Copy, boxes lap, boxes lap.
Engineer: Okay, now it's like the rear brakes. We're lucky on the last corner Okay, okay. Watch the whole whole behind pushing. Okay. Okay. We are we can look let's cover. Don't worry. We're on it
Alexander ALBON: What is this retirement doing?
Engineer: Not sure
Engineer: Alex, do you want to try adding some front wing and going again? Yes. Okay, understood. What do you think, four or five clicks?
Alexander ALBON: Three.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I can hear the radio like in the corner
Daniil KVYAT: What was this f***ing understeer in NASCAR? I don't know it.
Engineer: Do you want to take one more with double cool down or are you happy there? Double cool down, yeah we'll try. I was quite happy there though, but
Sebastian VETTEL: we have to try.
Engineer: OK George, all clear behind at the moment, so it's currently P2, just under 4 tenths to bow through P1, main loss is braking minimum speed turn 1, also a little bit braking turn 4, and braking turn 7. Yeah, copy, just struggling with the rear turn 1, poor traction, had a big snap. OK, copy.
Nicholas LATIFI: Last corner was still compromised with traffic.
Engineer: Nice lap dude, nice lap, charge on, charge on
Engineer: Straight line braking, turn 4.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, it was again a traffic there. Anyway, it
Engineer: will
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: be the show today.
Daniil KVYAT: Why is Carlos cutting the chicane? For what? Is it allowed?
Engineer: No, it's not. We'll let the race director know.
Engineer: Yeah,
Pietro FITTIPALDI: keep over driving the last corner a little bit there. I lost a little bit there again. Sorry.
Engineer: Ah, no problem, man. Clear for learning. It doesn't matter yet. We can go through all the data and we'll be in a good spot for qualifying. Good session, mate. You built that up nicely. We're getting closer and closer to Kevin.
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