Abu Dhabi Grand Prix2021 · Practice 1 team radio

EngineerReady to check, Daniel

EngineerOkay, so if we can have a radio check on the way around that would be good. Don't worry about sinking gears We can do that on the next set Copy

Esteban OCONthat

Daniel RICCIARDORight, radio checking, head exit.

EngineerYeah, loud and clear.

Daniel RICCIARDOYep, you sound good.

EngineerThank you very much.

EngineerI

Nikita MAZEPINwill need to do a helmet change when we stop. The amount of air going in my eyes is crazy again.

EngineerCopy.

Esteban OCONTake the steering wheel is a lot to the right

Max VERSTAPPENJust to say that my steering wheel is quite badly right hand down.

EngineerUnderstood. Copy that, thank you.

Yuki TSUNODAThe brake is, the brake pedal is not connected enough I think. I think we're feeling loose.

EngineerYou think it's long, long pedal?

Yuki TSUNODANo, I think it's just brake pedal, it's moving.

EngineerIt's moving in the cockpit.

Yuki TSUNODAYeah, it's not fitting enough, it's not connected properly.

EngineerCopy, so slow down and box, box. Slow down and box.

EngineerSo I don't know what you think. I think we could use the right toggle for 12 because there's a huge amount of rear locking there and then that would be okay for the rest of that sector. How did you find the rest of the lap? It's

Mick SCHUMACHERquite, yeah, very low grid. I think it's just also the track, like the new parts are quite slippery, a lot of oil, so that's just about trying to get to do that a bit better I think.

EngineerOkay there's quite a lot of rear locking so we're just thinking if we give you a suggestion on that.

EngineerSo we've got lap deleted, track limits at the last corner. What's the track limit then? Is it the white line or...? It's the white line everywhere around here. Ah, okay.

Engineer5

Nikita MAZEPINspeed mid-corner, medium speed mid-corner, no stress present Copy that

Lance STROLLShould we do a double cool for the tyres?

EngineerTyres aren't too hot. Double cool could get us back in phase. But I don't think we need it for the tyres at the moment, Lance. Can we have some full throttle for charging, please? Full throttle for charging.

Kimi RAIKKONENThe next car, behind, what is

Engineerit?

Kimi RAIKKONENSecond pushing, and then... Yeah, but tell me earlier. I can see it before you tell me.

EngineerOkay? Yeah, copy. And we'll stall seven seconds now.

EngineerAnd lap time has been deleted for track limits, 10-16, falling for...

Carlos SAINZYeah, I had quite a bit of pull

Engineerin braking in

Carlos SAINZ2 turns. 7? 6, yeah, OK.

EngineerOK, and we go in, go in, good effort on the last two sector Keep the brakes alive, focus on some PU quitting First car behind you, Norris, gap 8, opening a lap

Nicholas LATIFICopy Yeah, the car feels very out of bed right now

EngineerAll over the place Copy, so you have Norris pushing within 6 And the last 3 laps you did were all deleted for track limits at 16, probably too wide an exit Copy

Yuki TSUNODAI think second gear again, I cannot see. That's

Engineerno

Yuki TSUNODAproblem, that's no problem.

Esteban OCONThat was a close one.

EngineerSebastian you might have seen it you picked up a bit of paint on your front left tyre out of 15 that might have hurt there's been a lot of laps deleted it in 16 so just a bit of caution there it's all clear behind at the moment

Engineerokay we can go in now so go switch to in and call the pu where we can so high speed low revs first car pushing in 10. still

Jack AITKENfelt a little bit on the spirally side for

Engineerthat last lap yeah you can see that wearing the steering wheel up okay so we can box this lap gasly pushing in five

EngineerWhat do you think, Ricky? It was quite overbalanced, no? I think. Yeah, it's quite on the nose, yeah. Do you

Carlos SAINZsee the pulling on the braking?

EngineerI can't see it, but it's difficult to see from data. I'm steering a bit right and side down.

Sergio PEREZYeah, the tyre felt a bit on the cool side there.

EngineerWhich axle?

Sergio PEREZRear. The rear mainly into turn 5, and then the front. I had quite a bit of front locking.

EngineerOK, copy that.

EngineerYeah, the car still feels full of balance. Didn't feel the flat. OK, understood. Wanna come in for another adjust or are you happy to take one more? Yes, I don't know if there's something wrong because the car turns more to one side than to the other. I'm not comfortable at all. Yeah, it seems crosswind there because like breaking turn one is fine to us. Yeah, but breaking turn one the car is very neutral on entry. Another 0.2, 0.3 though.

Carlos SAINZUnderstood.

Max VERSTAPPENI just got ready to straighten the wheel because it's really annoying to drive

Engineerthen we have Leclerc 15 behind possibly pushing as well and nobody behind him keep up the pace in the inlop.

Yuki TSUNODAI think a tyre was already gone in second push

Engineercopy fail 11 fail fail 11 Leclerc 5 behind not sure what he's doing watch your mirrors

Engineerand good warm up on the brakes

Charles LECLERCcan I do a double cool or not? no time for double cool

Engineerno time, we need more race for last corner gap to Sainz in front, 9 seconds charge button off, charge off

Carlos SAINZYeah, everything feels quite bad at the moment guys. We need to change something.

EngineerOk Pierre, how was the tyres sector 1 and 2? Looks a bit difficult there. Bad.

Pierre GASLYYeah, no front tyres, massive washout. Ok, do you think it's not ready or balanced? Not ready tyres.

EngineerCopy, not ready. Was that both axles? Because we saw the snap in turn 5 as well.

Pierre GASLYYeah, the snap in turn 5 for me really didn't understand the turn 1, just the front tyres, not ready.

EngineerOk, copy that. Front's main limitation.

Esteban OCONCopy, steering is a little bit the other way now.

EngineerThe biggest

Nikita MAZEPINissue right now is that the car seems on ice from the turn 6-7, both fronts and rears, just understeering, oversteering, traction's bad, braking's

Engineera

Nikita MAZEPINbit too bad, so yeah, I don't know how to help that, but I've never experienced that in the last few races.

EngineerOkay, copy that.

EngineerWe'll do a K1 hold out of last corner. K1 hold out of last corner.

Lance STROLLSo we'll double cool, double cool. Yeah, I don't know, man. It's just not finding grip.

EngineerYeah, copy. We think we need less apex kerb in 14.

Lance STROLLYeah, it's not about an apex kerb in 14, man.

EngineerThere's no grip. Yeah, what's the limitation, turn one?

Lance STROLLJust traction. The overall grip is very poor.

EngineerDo you want to take some aerobalance off? Nothing we can do about it, no. Is it unstable? It's

Lance STROLLnot aerobalance. Oh, it's not aerobalance.

EngineerJust

Lance STROLLkeep going.

EngineerAitken is five behind pushing, Aitken five behind pushing.

Esteban OCONOi, I have a problem, went to neutral, the car, what should I do? Copy that, so

Engineerwe need to try an upshift first if you can Do that try before stopping, you're in false neutral at the moment If you can't upshift we need to try then downshifting OK, I have yield again Yep, it should be fine, you went into a false neutral there, we'll look at that

EngineerOkay it's all clear behind we need to drop as much pace as we can from one till five.

Jack AITKENWarped with the rear into turn six.

EngineerSo our cool laps around plus 30 at the moment we need to try and get at least another 50% on that.

EngineerHappy for double call, yeah happy for double call. Copy.

Nicholas LATIFIThis is going to be very disruptive, I can't break the tow.

EngineerTopic?

Nicholas LATIFII think I accidentally changed green 4 position, so let me know what green 4 should be in.

EngineerTopic, standby.

EngineerIt's like the

Kimi RAIKKONENprevious braking that we have, it just goes all over the place, those

Engineerlast two brakeings. Okay, copy, we're having a look.

Sebastian VETTELNote that I had vibrations from the off on this set.

EngineerCopy that, understood.

EngineerConnect the tyres, don't heat the tyres up too much on your way in.

Carlos SAINZYeah, everything a bit better. Still struggling a bit though.

EngineerUnderstood.

Max VERSTAPPENI run out of energy into the last corner

Yuki TSUNODAI think I got a nice door.

EngineerYeah, you're okay. And the last sector anyway was not too bad.

EngineerHow's the car on that lap?

Sergio PEREZQuite similar mate to the first one.

EngineerFun chattering still.

EngineerWe have time for one cool-down lap and then push again. One more push. Track is clear behind.

Charles LECLERCTraffic in the last sector.

EngineerCopy, we've seen that.

EngineerSo

Carlos SAINZwhat do I need to do in 12 to 14?

EngineerI'll come back to you with 1% conservative You're missing speed, exit 12, entry 13

Pierre GASLYI can't do more. I can't do more. Thank you.

Charles LECLERCI'll accept. It would be good if I could do one more lap, I didn't do enough laps on lap 2.

EngineerOK, copy, we'll come back to you. OK, for another cool down lap and push again. The brakes were cold, so we need a good warm up on the brakes.

Charles LECLERCCopy, I'll try.

Carlos SAINZYeah, mistake, turn 6, front look.

EngineerIs that the eye top? The eye top. Noted. Temps look okay and okay to continue.

EngineerUnderstood mate, to be clear. We'll debrief the tyres back in the garage so no more comments but that was good.

Nicholas LATIFII have the blue flag marshalling light on my dash for some reason. Copy.

EngineerAnd Landon, just thinking about having rear tyres for the end of session launch, are they OK?

Lando NORRISYeah, fine.

EngineerYuki, entry 5. Entry 5 now.

Yuki TSUNODAWhy? It's opposite, man. They're having instability. What are you thinking about?

Yuki TSUNODAMade this

EngineerSo that pace was still as fast as the McLaren's.

EngineerCopy that, we'll look closer.

EngineerIf we can try the anti-overtake at some point as well, this lap would be great.

EngineerSo checkered flag marks, checkered flags and we will come round to the grid for a start, come round to the grid for a start. We need some PU cooling, so we need some PU cooling.

EngineerI'll be the checkered flag. Copy. Nothing

Sebastian VETTELhappened, just lost the carpet over the kerb.

EngineerCopy that.

Engineerokay so there'll be seventh in line choose a side confirm burnouts and BPF currently three burnouts and two static BPF pick a side and then only launch once it's directly clear in front of you so confirming three burnouts two BPF so pick a side wait for it to clear ahead of you and then launch

EngineerIt's OK, it's

Sebastian VETTELslowing.

EngineerYeah, it's pretty OK, so just do a bit of lifting at the end of the two straights to help, but you're pretty OK? Yeah, OK. And then we'll push the entry, and we'll do a full pit stop.

Sebastian VETTELYeah, not really, I'm not happy with the vibrations.

EngineerOK, understood.

EngineerNice job, thank you. A little bit messy with peeping in front of you on that final run, but still a good job.

Jack AITKENThank you guys, you made that pretty easy for me. I'm just a bit rusty with some of the more specifics here, but it felt alright.

EngineerYou can add this car to the long list of other ones you've driven this year.

Jack AITKENIt's

Engineera

Jack AITKENgrowing collection, I just need to get in the rental carts this weekend and I'm set.