Austrian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
58 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Austrian Grand Prix 2021, across 18 drivers. Charles LECLERC had the most, with 8.
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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 8 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Bike on find, please. Track opens in four seconds.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, check the forecast, just to be sure I see some drops of rain.
Engineer: Yeah, there are a few drops reported, should be okay to stay out.
Engineer: So we're going to get two push laps with a double cool.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yep.
Engineer: Five cars ahead of you, no six now with Giovinazzi seven
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's just
Engineer: Four cars still ahead of you three two Okay, beep out three And recharge off before ten
Charles LECLERC: That's
Engineer: the
Charles LECLERC: trip
Engineer: And Lando, we can box, we can box, or you can go again, Reichen and right behind. No, I go again. Okay.
Lando NORRIS: Next person behind. Mazipan 4, then
Engineer: Giovinazzi 9. Yeah, I need earlier.
Engineer: How's the flap? Gasly behind, two seconds.
Sergio PEREZ: Into the low speed, traction seems to be quite good.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: So maintain front temperature. That's what you need to do. Maintain front and cool rears.
Lance STROLL: So I'm going this lap, right? No, up on five behind pushing. OK, well, you're not clear, Brad.
Engineer: We should find around 3 tenths with the Medium compared to the Proto.
Charles LECLERC: Oh s**t.
Engineer: That
Charles LECLERC: was a scary one.
Engineer: Okay, from a battery point of view we are good to go again, Max. So let's prep ourselves for that. Hamilton, 12 seconds on a time-lapse. Crack is clear ahead.
Engineer: Main loss, turn 3 with that entry snap. Yeah, looked like maybe a bit of a tailwind there, but also maybe a bit aggressive on the beaming.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I'm not even gonna say what the f**k happened
Engineer: What
Max VERSTAPPEN: happened? No, I'm not gonna f**king say it, people are blind
Engineer: Daniel I think turn seven you can maybe carry a little less speed in and get on power earlier you may even just be able to get on power earlier if you turn in can turn in more and remember left hand toggle turn four and you can take another step in braking there's still margin there
Charles LECLERC: I just need to go to the toilet very quickly if possible.
Engineer: Understood. Everyone behind you on a slow lap.
Engineer: Recharge on.
Esteban OCON: I might have hit the front wing on the last corner, inside. OK,
Engineer: understood. So we've got slow laps behind, we'll have a look.
Esteban OCON: Copy, I will come close to pit lane just to see.
Engineer: Yeah, understood, if we're going to do a double cool. OK, so Antoine, car's behind on out laps, what we'd like you to do is come through the pit lane this lap please, stop on the marks, we'll give the front wing a quick visual, everything we can see in data looks fine though, and then you can go on the mechanics signal.
Carlos SAINZ: Don't you think it's going to rain? Shall we put the soft tire as quick as possible?
Engineer: Conditional stable like this for the whole session.
Engineer: Would you like another lap?
Sebastian VETTEL: Probably a double cool and then see what happens.
Engineer: Yeah, exactly. Let's go for the double cool. Currently P2.
Sebastian VETTEL: Otherwise I'm happy to box as well.
Engineer: Yeah, if you've got a good answer. OK, let's box. Just charge the pack now.
Engineer: So, we need to do another cool, I think, Lance, for these tyres.
Lance STROLL: Yep.
Engineer: Cars behind are all cool. Cars behind are all cool.
Engineer: So that's P1, so box, box, box, I guess double cooldown.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, temperatures look okay to push again.
Engineer: Do
Daniel RICCIARDO: you want a different strat or are you happy? I'm happy.
Engineer: A
Lando NORRIS: few more spits of rain now.
Sebastian VETTEL: So now do you expect that to increase?
Engineer: We don't expect it to increase although it's not particularly clear on radar.
Engineer: Just down two hundredths to Valtteri in sector 1, you are purple, sectors 2 and 3. Repeat the
Lewis HAMILTON: sectors again.
Engineer: So you're down just two hundredths to sector 1, you are purple, sectors 2 and 3. To Valtteri looks like it's mainly a tow into turn 1.
Fernando ALONSO: I can't believe it. I f***ing can't believe it. They don't have mirrors, these guys. Who was the guy?
Engineer: Räikkönen.
Charles LECLERC: 1 and 10 minimum speed right? Yes, correct.
Charles LECLERC: It's raining quite a bit, so there are some drops which might affect also the performance.
Engineer: So we're expecting 21 time-lapse, so this one and 20 more, and press and hold overtake for five seconds when you can.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, it's a little bit
Sergio PEREZ: The upshift into turn 7 is very upsetting. It's upsetting the rear a lot.
Lance STROLL: Can you repeat please?
Engineer: Diff mid 5 for understeer, if you have understeer, diff mid 5
Engineer: So straight into time management.
Max VERSTAPPEN: OK, it's 2-3-1-1, I'm not sure how long we can keep it like this.
Engineer: OK, well my recommendation would be stick it out as long as you feel you can keep it between the white lines. It could be similar conditions on Sunday, so you may well be learning.
Nicholas LATIFI: These rear tires do not feel very good.
Engineer: The
Nicholas LATIFI: rear left looks very angry.
Engineer: So we've got rain marks there at four.
Engineer: 15 more timed and you can push more in 6 and 9.
Engineer: Ok, turn 3 re-locking is increasing, if we can try to brake slightly earlier and hold less pressure late braking.
Engineer: Yeah man, we saw it. Your lap time is very comparable to Latifi. This is good. Nice job, mate.
Engineer: We are expecting this rain for another five minutes.
Sergio PEREZ: Seems to be increasing the rain a bit in the fore.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Now the rain starts to affect P-204
Engineer: The rain is getting heavier by the look of it.
Lando NORRIS: It's raining quite a bit more, getting a bit slippery.
Engineer: So reset your tyre switch when you can, reset tyre. Gasly is two and a half, you know. Is
Sebastian VETTEL: there a nicer gap around somewhere or is that the best we can...?
Engineer: I think that's the best for now.
Engineer: Okay, and how's the track?
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, completely dry, no problem.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Remember to laiko into turn 9, that's priority number 1, laiko into turn 9.
Engineer: And how are the tires?
Fernando ALONSO: Rear movement allowed.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Okay so if Räikkönen comes past it's not an issue, he's on much fresher medium tyres.
Engineer: And what is your status at the moment?
Fernando ALONSO: Zero.
Engineer: Ok, understood.
Fernando ALONSO: Doing something in three and four, the last two laps.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, we noticed that.
Engineer: Lewis out again on the medium 9.5
Yuki TSUNODA: The idiot in front, he's using DRS all the way, so impossible to overtake him.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Ok, what damage do you have? Talon,
Lando NORRIS: just the tires are flat spotted
Valtteri BOTTAS: It's getting a bit slippery in places
Engineer: So he took the checkered flag?
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, the flag told me earlier. Anyway, I'm pushing, I'm pushing for now.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: Okay, so it's a bike point find four burnouts and a first gear launch left-hand side preferred but managed traffic
Engineer: Box, Box, K2 off, and the brakes are very hot, so please cool the brakes before pit lane.
Engineer: Okay, so let's get some weaving on the way up to turn 3, 200 kph, and a bit of gentle weaving.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Is the drink button on or off? Yeah, it should be. Now, is it on or off as a switch?
Engineer: Ah, come by.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Because I'm not connected, so it's either that I'm putting water into the cockpit or not. Come
Engineer: by, come by. Yeah, it's off, it's off.
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