Styrian Grand Prix 2020: Practice 1 team radio
62 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Styrian Grand Prix 2020, across 18 drivers. 58 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Carlos SAINZ 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
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 7 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 6 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 6 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 4 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Robert KUBICA · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Jack AITKEN · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Radio check, race fans.
Engineer: Hello, race driver.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Radio check, race fans.
Engineer: Hello, race driver.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Alrighty.
Engineer: Radio check up the hill, okay you're incredibly quiet to hear me all I can hear is background noise we'll look at it.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah there's something wrong with the mic.
Engineer: Okay that's better that time.
Daniel RICCIARDO: The right the right mirror is a little bit warped so the vision isn't as good as the left But yep everything else okay
Engineer: Switches are good to keep pushing and we can have sock four sock four for one time lap at a time
Carlos SAINZ: What is the lap times?
Engineer: So it's only you and Albon out there. Albon's done one lap. It was a 107.6
Engineer: Copy. Happy to box. Copy. Happy to box. Albon's just done a 6.3. He's on C3.
Engineer: Norris apparently is on soft tyres.
Engineer: The track is clear, track clear, and we will need to do constant speeds out of turn 3. It will be FS4, 5th gear, FS4, 5th gear. Next car behind pushing is Bottas, 17 seconds behind.
Alexander ALBON: Main issue is just how it feels like it's floating a bit too much mid-corner So traction is pretty poor in turn 3 and turn 4 The high speed actually feels pretty good
Engineer: So box, box, box, new purple sector 1 and 3.
Engineer: I'd like to try brake two, please, Esteban. Brake two, that is. For interest, Leclerc's lap was a 6.6.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Lando, how much front wing do you need? We can box for front wing this time.
Lando NORRIS: One and a half holes.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: Hit it, let's keep pushing and K1 hold out of turn 1. The front completely went halfway through the lap, so have a look, try to understand please. Copy that. OK, what should I do? OK, we'll come back with some feedback. Either we're far too low A-ball-wise, or I need some help with the maps or whatever, but yeah. OK, how is high speed balance and watch for the Stanton, 6 behind pushing. Yeah, I'm pushing man, I'm pushing. It's understeering high speed.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, flat for the front right.
Engineer: Okay Landon, I need one more time-lapse after this cool-down lap for data.
Engineer: So watch your mirrors, GPS is struggling at the moment, it's not a clear picture for me at the moment.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, no worries.
Engineer: Well,
Nicholas LATIFI: I think the engine just went or something happened
Engineer: Carlos, currently yellow flags in turn 5. Currently yellow flags in turn 5. Latifi stopped off track.
Engineer: Virtual safety car, virtual safety car, Carlos I think time-wise it's better to stay out in this virtual safety car, time-wise better to stay out at the moment.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah I couldn't see anyone, so it's
Engineer: been
Carlos SAINZ: big very long.
Lando NORRIS: Okay Lando, you're plugged in. It feels great to be honest. I'm struggling a little bit, I don't know what's happened with my chest but I'm really struggling under braking and under the compression of it.
Engineer: Red flag, red flag, to Boxes Lab and still follow Delta, Boxes Lab.
Engineer: So the track is open again? Yeah, it will open in one minute, one minute.
Engineer: We have four cars in front, vest up and behind, and focus on tyres and brake preparation.
Engineer: Just stay off the yellow kerbs. Reminder, stay off the yellow kerbs.
Engineer: So Checo you are clear behind, you're 14 clear ahead. We'll be able to do three pushing laps with calls in between so you will get three pushing laps. So Checo we're probably going to do a warm up lap because we're too cold on the fronts. We're minus 30 on the fronts. Take care with that extra bit of front brake balance we've got.
Alexander ALBON: It's like there's something strange in those beats. Just so much understeer.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I've locked up a 10-3.
Engineer: Okay.
Alexander ALBON: Can we box and do something?
Engineer: I copy. Recharge on box, Alex.
Alexander ALBON: It feels like you've gone PLU forward compared to PLU rear, which is quite strange. We just have huge rush out mid-corner.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: box and pit confirm max, box, pit confirm, cool the brakes now, cool the brakes and it'll be a practice pit stop so focus on your marks and then switch off
Engineer: OK, that's one minute until the box.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: What do you mean, one minute until the box? Yeah, for
Engineer: the 14 minutes you need to push, keep pushing, we are OK, we are OK. And box, box.
Charles LECLERC: Can we box for front wing address?
Engineer: Yes, we can do that. Track is clear behind. Just let me know how much.
Charles LECLERC: Plus nine clicks.
Engineer: and we'll have one more time-lapse
Engineer: It'll be strat 3. We have two laps of strat 3.
Engineer: Tires are good. Tires are good.
Engineer: Consider high speed 2 for understeering high speed, consider high speed 2 for understeering high speed.
Engineer: That was quite a nice lap estimate, I think. P7 at the moment.
Jack AITKEN: We're going above understeer, turn 4, mid to exit that time. Something I can do with the switches, maybe just come down on mid for that corner.
Engineer: Yep, copy that. Down on mid for turn 4 is good.
Engineer: Box, box, box.
Alexander ALBON: It's still doing the same thing again, just huge understeer mid-corner
Engineer: In terms of sectors, to Valtteri, on your best laps, you're just up a hundredth, sector one, up a half a tenth, sector two, down half a tenth, sector three. Looking good to turns three and four, and also turn one.
Carlos SAINZ: Turn 7 looked better there, no?
Engineer: Yeah, turns 7, 9 and 10 looked good and as I say green sector 3
Engineer: Carlos, right hand side toggle in turn six would help stabilize the car with the older tires. Right hand side toggle turn six.
Engineer: How were the switches on that lap? It's
Alexander ALBON: just different, but it's not any better. It just feels like We didn't now have relocking on entry, but we still have this understeer washout mid-corner in
Engineer: the
Alexander ALBON: low speed
Engineer: Can
Alexander ALBON: I do a double call?
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Yeah, possibly the front brake were a bit low. We don't see any big issue. No big issue Yes, you lock a lot the rear so put some temperature in your brakes now
Engineer: And previous lap was close to track limits, turn 9.
Engineer: Okay, so we've got two other cars on high fuel, Bottas and Hamilton. Hamilton doing 9.0s on mediums as well.
Engineer: Watch your left.
Engineer: I
Valtteri BOTTAS: feel something in the cockpit on my right foot.
Engineer: Okay, so cool the car and box, box, box.
Engineer: Okay, and if you can give us a few updates on tires and balance, please
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah Status nice Balance a little bit just have to watch the real bit more than the front at the moment but phase
Engineer: Okay understood
Engineer: So check out this is very fast paced at the moment.
Sebastian VETTEL: Just for your info, first gear was not synced.
Engineer: Understood, thank you.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Daniil KVYAT: Yeah, he's just blocking me there
Engineer: OK Maxon, back it out please, back it out, target plus 5 on the dash, target plus 5 on the dash.
Engineer: Okay Esteban, so the procedure is going to be that you come out of turn 10, then you're going to do recharge off before doing your burnouts, and then a start from the left hand side.
Romain GROSJEAN: Okay, I pressed twice the okay button during the run for two corners that were very complicated so If yeah, if you can prepare those so we can chat about it
Engineer: Copy that
Engineer: This is
Charles LECLERC: the last time-lapse of Sainz and Seb.
Engineer: So last time-lapse of Sainz 9.6, Sebastian 9.7, and we go to the grid.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Something is loose, I think, next to my throttle foot, yeah, definitely, something came forward.
Engineer: OK, understood, so just take care for the moment.
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