Tuscan Grand Prix 2020: Practice 2 team radio
22 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Tuscan Grand Prix 2020, across 12 drivers. 21 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Daniel RICCIARDO had the most, with 5.
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
- Daniel RICCIARDO · Renault · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · McLaren · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Renault · 2 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Racing Point · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Racing Point · 1 message
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay Carlos, I know the tyre feels awful. You are two tenths off Ricciardo, other cars are on C2.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Balance isn't too bad. I made a couple mistakes, but balance isn't too bad.
Lance STROLL: There's a car in front of me. Yeah, you started too close to the car. Yeah,
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: know, but I couldn't see him, Brad. I didn't see him at the exit. I thought he went for it.
Engineer: Nice lap Esteban, 19.0 P5, huge gain in sector 1 there, also better sector 2 and sector 3.
Engineer: We
Lewis HAMILTON: going again?
Engineer: It's up to you, if you want to take one more lap on this tyre, or we can put that onto the soft. Yeah, I'll go again. OK, copy. You've got a clear track at the moment, only three cars out there. Apex. Turn two and three
Lewis HAMILTON: still down.
Engineer: Mainly turn three.
Lewis HAMILTON: So we had that improvement in two, yeah?
Engineer: Yeah, small improvement in two, still a little bit of speed to find there. Turn ten better? Turn ten better, a little bit of a compromise for turn eleven now, need to find a bit more exit turn one. All right, let's go for turn eleven.
Engineer: It's really hard to sync 8th gear. Yeah, understood.
Engineer: Carlos, do you want to try less front wing?
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, no rear support for me. But I'm not going to improve with less front wing anyway. So up to you.
Engineer: I don't know what the f**k they are
Kimi RAIKKONEN: doing The Mercedes is
Engineer: still
Kimi RAIKKONEN: very slow in this Yeah,
Engineer: stand by Perez is out lap Ahead of you Yeah, he's ok, but the other one Hamilton was on a slow charge lap Yeah,
Kimi RAIKKONEN: but I can still move out of the way
Engineer: Was that too fast, lap 1? Confirmed, lap 1 was a bit too fast. First lap you were 1.2 faster than Lance, second lap 0.3 faster.
Engineer: Okay, and how are the tires and how's the balance little
Daniel RICCIARDO: little bit more rear management, but it's pretty consistent for now
Engineer: Are you okay?
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, I'm fine. Let's
Engineer: see
Sebastian VETTEL: if the tires are still okay.
Engineer: Okay. Stay out. Should
Sebastian VETTEL: be okay.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Still a bit more re-attack, but front as well is taking a little hit. Phase 3.
Engineer: Okay, it looks like the people are a bit faster on option now, Renault is in the high 23 low 24
Daniel RICCIARDO: I feel I'm in a little bit of a limbo with the car ahead. I probably can't get that much closer without hurting tyres.
Engineer: Start managing rear left in turn six and eight.
Engineer: OK Esteban, surface temps very high through 8 and 9, consider some management there, and the snaps in 12 were hurting a little bit.
George RUSSELL: Struggling a little with the rear left Exit of 1, exit of 3 I'm through the high speed But the front's fading away as well, very tricky
Pierre GASLY: What do you want me to do keep
Engineer: pushing keep pushing we are close to the window
Pierre GASLY: When I brake, I have a problem in the chicane, like the car is, as soon as I turn, it's like I have no rear wing on the turn in, so, in turn 4, 5, all the time I brake, it's like the car is pulling massively, 3 degrees of steering, it's like I'm on ice.
Engineer: Ok Alex, if things are stabilising this tyre we will pit and fit the medium so you can keep pushing on this lap if you're happy and you've got a feeling for this we'll change to the other tyres, let us know.
Alexander ALBON: OK
Engineer: OK, the engine stopped. I'll try to power cycle the car if that's OK for you. Can you hear me? Stand by. Stand by. OK, you can do or try a power cycle. I'll try a power cycle. P1 now. The car was in P1. It said also engine stop. Understood. But the dash doesn't react. Trying to go to P2. Yeah, but the trouble also is that I hit the neutral button on the cockpit so that I could roll and don't stop in the middle of the corner. So maybe that's why. Does it cut the electronics when you press the neutral button? Yes, it does. Do I still have the tool in the cockpit to take it out? No. I used to have it. Not anymore. OK, well that's it then. Understood.
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