Styrian Grand Prix 2020: Practice 2 team radio
62 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Styrian Grand Prix 2020, across 17 drivers. 56 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 9 messages
- Romain GROSJEAN · Haas · 6 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 6 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 6 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 6 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Daniil KVYAT · AlphaTauri · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: OK, you could afford to go a bit slower if you want, for your tyres? Yeah, but I have to charge. Yeah, copy. I
Kimi RAIKKONEN: don't give two brakes, OK? I know, I know.
Engineer: Alright, I'll leave you to
Kimi RAIKKONEN: deal with it. I
Engineer: would
Kimi RAIKKONEN: love to go slower, but it's... I know, it's not an easy
Engineer: compromise. Anyway...
Romain GROSJEAN: The front tires, they cooled down too much. I don't know. Help me, guys.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Go in, go in. We need to cool the car, cool the car. Box, box. For practice pitons, stop in box. First car behind you, Gasly. First car behind you, Gasly. I expect him to be on a slow lap.
Engineer: Let me know if you are happy there or you want to take one more.
Sebastian VETTEL: I need another one. I need to get used to the brakes.
Carlos SAINZ: Is the track just really slow, or is it me?
Engineer: Yeah, I think the track probably is quite slow. Let's have Orange Torque 7, Orange Torque 7.
Daniel RICCIARDO: All okay? Yep, sorry.
Engineer: Red flag, red flag, delta, positive on the delta, switch to cool.
Engineer: behind
Alexander ALBON: driveability doesn't feel as nice in the low speed on exits Russell
Engineer: pushing behind copy Russell pushing behind
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm not really having a lot of power.
Engineer: Stand by.
Engineer: And we have tailwind into turn one and turn three
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's cutting.
Engineer: Understood, stay up for the moment, work your tyres.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, no power.
Engineer: OK, box this lap please Max, box this lap.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, like 4th, 5th gear, after that there is no power.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Why is my shift so bad? I feel very harsh.
Engineer: Two seconds to Russell, and mode push.
Engineer: Okay, time to land. I mainly turn six.
Carlos SAINZ: Slightly like
Engineer: release of brake. Slightly later braking and release of brake to carry a bit more entry speed.
Alexander ALBON: We've got these weird snaps now, mid-corner in the medium and high speed into turn 4, turn 6 and turn 7.
Alexander ALBON: We've got these weird snaps now, mid-corner in the medium and high speed into turn 4, turn 6 and turn 7
Engineer: Bottas is behind him, watch for Bottas, two behind, also pushing.
Romain GROSJEAN: Too late that's called, too late!
Max VERSTAPPEN: They're so f***ing blind man, it's unbelievable. Can't they just tell them to move?
Engineer: Same driver.
Engineer: Prep these tires, prep these tires, should have a clear out lap, clear out lap.
George RUSSELL: Those diff changes were good for Zeke, thinking of being make one turn one, the support over the curve entry of ten is very poor even without the flick
Engineer: Urgent default 6-0, default 6-0.
Sebastian VETTEL: I'm happy there, I'd like you to check, because I went a little bit wide in, turn 6, check the car a little bit. Ok, understood, in
Engineer: for a pit start then, and clear from behind, keep me on a cool down behind.
Sebastian VETTEL: Ok, you check the right hand side of the car, when I stop.
Engineer: Ok, understood.
Engineer: Okay, well done Carlos. That's P3. Box this lap, box this lap.
Carlos SAINZ: Good progress in high speed.
Engineer: Ok well done Carlos, that's P3, box this lap, box this lap, good progress in high speed.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah and I had traffic in 6, could have been better.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: This could be the grid for Sunday, so we need to clean it up.
Engineer: Box, Alex, box.
Alexander ALBON: I just don't know how we can have oversteer in turn 3 and then huge understeer in turn 4.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, that sector wasn't perfect
Engineer: We just had a track limits warning for turn 9 on the out lap. Yeah I know, I know.
Romain GROSJEAN: Massive understeer, don't know why.
Engineer: Check out the tailwind into turn 3, it's got bigger, bigger tailwind into turn 3, it's fluctuating.
Pierre GASLY: I'm just giving a ****ing to Otugani, that's the only thing I'm on track for
Engineer: Pierre, it's not like that. It's P2. You focus on yourself, please.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I don't f***ing care. It's like, we should be 9. I don't know why we do this. We should be doing 0.6 or something.
Pierre GASLY: If this is qually, we didn't maximize it. That's why I'm not happy, Will.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Just a reminder to look after the car, this is your race floor.
Nicholas LATIFI: General peak grip is obviously gone, more towards rear, so I don't
Engineer: know
Nicholas LATIFI: what it feels.
Engineer: This was a good lap, keep pushing
Engineer: And press oil button, press oil button, avoid kerb zone exit 1.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Car balance feedback, car balance feedback.
Nicholas LATIFI: Rear is still feels on the edge but front is starting to go on high speed as well mid exit.
Engineer: Oh,
Lance STROLL: the grip's falling apart now.
Engineer: Okay, so lap time, Bottas first lap 8.7, then a gradual loss down to a 9.4 after five laps. That was on the soft tyre.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I've got a long brake pedal copy
Engineer: that
Engineer: Okay, so lap times, Bottas first lap 8.7, then a gradual loss down to a 9.4 after five laps. That was on the soft tyre.
Engineer: Alex is off track to your left now.
Engineer: Temperature's okay and clear air.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I'm gonna do status 4, see how much star is left.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Can you check my downshift? They felt a bit harsh.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Rear tyres still very hot, Esteban. You've got a five second gap behind you, might be worth taking a breather, cooling down the rear tyres and then pushing again. We shouldn't have let the tyres get as hot as they are, so sorry for that, that's our problem.
Sebastian VETTEL: Is there a click gap somewhere?
Engineer: Not really
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: We have the track limits, warning at turn nine.
Romain GROSJEAN: Yeah, front washout again.
Engineer: Check with five laps to go, five laps, currently pace similar to McLaren's and Ferrari's, we're on slightly different programs.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, I'm still struggling with the wake, I'll
Engineer: try
Sebastian VETTEL: in front.
Engineer: Ok Danny, Russian Roulette now!
Engineer: And we got pinged for track limits again on turn 9 for info.
Engineer: I
Nicholas LATIFI: don't know what the Ferrari is doing. What's the pedal doing?
Engineer: OK, Saban, the car is hot, so you're going to have to do a cool-down lap now, please. Cool-down lap now, please. Recharge on. Remember, cars behind are still on time-lapse. You will take the checkered flag at the end of this.
Esteban OCON: OK.
Engineer: Okay, that's the checkered flag. Cool the car for the launch. Cool the car for the launch. So full throttle, then big liftoffs, please.
Engineer: So big lift for nine and then a buy point find two burnouts That's two burnouts and we're going to launch on the right-hand side in first gear You'll just need recharge off for the launch recharge off for the launch
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