Austrian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 3 team radio
60 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Austrian Grand Prix 2021, across 20 drivers. Sergio PEREZ 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
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 8 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 7 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: 5.5, track is green.
Engineer: And new brakes, so good warm-up on brakes.
Engineer: OK copy, remember 2 BPF, double BPF, 5
Nicholas LATIFI: burnout and
Engineer: stop in box pull away
Engineer: Turn one is tailwind maybe just tried to combine the entry a little too much in turn one
Daniel RICCIARDO: There is seven meters margin braking turn for seven meters
Charles LECLERC: Is everything fine with my delta time? I'm so quick in the charslaps.
Engineer: I will come back to you on that. Yes, so everything should be fine on the delta time?
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, but... okay.
Engineer: You can do a double cooldown lap?
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, but nobody is respecting it if I'm fine, so... Do we need to respect it in FP3 or can I just go slow?
Engineer: We need to respect it also in FP3.
Engineer: So turn 3 exit we need to focus so carry a bit less speed in entry and focus on exit
Yuki TSUNODA: I think the car, fast speed corner is quite good, I have acquired quite
Engineer: good stability Copy, Gasly, Ricciardo behind, they are boxing
Engineer: and recharge off launch map off first to second shift at the pit exit first to second shift at the pit exit
Engineer: Box now box now
Engineer: So if we keep both, 6 and 7, we can break 5 meters later.
Engineer: OK mode charge and we can do another push if you want, if not box.
Engineer: Track is clear behind, let me know if you want to do another try, another push lap?
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, can I go through the push lane please?
Engineer: Ok, copy
Engineer: So for turn 7 anticipate the liftoff point to carry more speed, traffic wise we are okay, we have Kimi behind in face, Ocon ahead also in face, and Focus braking turn 3.
Engineer: And are you happy with balance?
Fernando ALONSO: It's decent, they're always still inside.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: And for if we were 2.8 positive on the display
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I can see it, but everyone's going very slow, so Yeah, understood, no, no, just to give you the feedback, all fine
Engineer: Ok Pierre, it's a good lap given the tyres, it's a good lap given the tyres. So we double cool down and we do one more lap with another target.
Pierre GASLY: Still struggling with the rear grip, I'm quite oversteery in high speed.
Engineer: Let's go offset 2.0 for the next lap.
Engineer: So to Sonoda it's one and a half tenths, sector one half a tenth in the middle, one and a half in the final.
Engineer: So to Sonoda it was exit turn 1, minimum speed turn 3.
Engineer: If you want to load the lap, put the tyre switch to position 2, otherwise leave it in 1.
Engineer: So scope to work the rears a little bit. Nice clean run through 9 and 10. Vettel's going, so it's B-Bell 3. Vettel's just waiting a little bit. Yeah, B-Bell 3, recharge off when you're ready. Vettel's gone.
Engineer: Okay, let me know if you need another lap or you're happy with this happy
Fernando ALONSO: to box
Engineer: Okay, copy. That's a soon arrow cruise after turn three, please So arrow P for fifth gear after turn three and we are boxing the slab clear from traffic behind
Engineer: So how's the car? How's the flat?
Sergio PEREZ: For the high speed we are a bit on the understeer side. Apart from turn 1, that is more neutral.
Engineer: OK. Kobi, do you want to come through for a flap adjust?
Sergio PEREZ: We go up two clicks.
Engineer: Kobi, to door behind.
Engineer: So Sebastian Wind is 12 kph tail into Turn 1, into Turn 1 and into Turn 3.
Engineer: So, for the charge lap, if we do double charge, he gives us a compare with the soft, but I leave it up to you.
Engineer: So Daniel, we need to brake later turn one and turn three. Losing out in braking turn one and turn three. That's about five meters in each corner. And then Lando is a partial lift in turn seven and nine. Admittedly, he is slightly covering the brake when he does that lift, but he's a partial lift in seven and nine.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I'm gonna get deleted. It is up to 10
Engineer: So in terms of other cars on the hard tyre, just a little loss to Alonso in turn 6.
Engineer: And confirm your lap time is deleted How was the balance in high speed?
Pierre GASLY: Understeer at 10.6, but then 10.7 was good
Engineer: Copy that
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I don't know.
Engineer: I
Yuki TSUNODA: got massive stuff.
Engineer: First lap from Nikita was 107.1, how was the balance?
Mick SCHUMACHER: It was okay. Turn 1 felt a bit awkward, but it was alright.
Engineer: Okay, it wasn't an ideal outlap. In terms of Turn 1 awkward, it just meant the tyres were not quite right, kind of like yesterday.
Engineer: Three, two, one.
Engineer: So box, check away box, practice pit stop, really focus on your positioning.
Charles LECLERC: I'll cool down next lap and go again.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: And six and a half meters before the line for the stop as well. Thanks again, good luck. We'll get some comments when you plug the instant light.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I think the tires gave up on me there in the last sector.
Engineer: We think you were driving better in that lap, it was a good turn 3 as an approach, in turn 4 as well. Yeah, turn 3 and 4 was better, it's just,
Carlos SAINZ: yeah
Engineer: it's not easy.
Engineer: OK this, that's P2, Verstappen P1, nearly half a second A lot of that is straight line, start finish straight and turns 1 to 3 Turn 1 was pretty
Lewis HAMILTON: bad, is
Engineer: the
Lewis HAMILTON: engine OK?
Engineer: Yep, all good from our side, no problem
Engineer: So main losses was a bit of 6, a bit of 7, a bit of 9. Low speed was strong.
Engineer: And turn one and three maybe just try and carry a little bit too much speed on the entry phase
Engineer: error balance if I'm not right. Okay copy that we'll have a think about what we can do for three and four.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, give me an update.
Engineer: So car behind is now Mazipan on the timelapse, he's in turn 3.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, give me an update, everyone ahead is going super slow.
Engineer: Gasly is in 9 now. So there's 4 cars still between you and turn 9.
Engineer: Tyres looking good, tyre is looking good. Brake temperature, bit of brake temperature, brake temperature here
Mick SCHUMACHER: Yeah, I ran also out of room with the front understeer there.
Engineer: Yep, understeer, okay. Alright, well we can apply some tools for the next lap, we'll just come back to you.
Mick SCHUMACHER: Yeah, it's exit turn 4 only.
Engineer: Lando, do you want to go for another lap? Not sure what the condition of tyres is?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I have a little pick-up. I'll try, but I'm having to box straight away.
Engineer: OK, let's open it. If we want to box, we'll probably have to abort about turn four.
Engineer: So thinking of boxing, I don't know if you want to have another go? Yeah, maybe I would like another go. Okay, cool. So we'll go for double cool. Russell behind his outlap.
Charles LECLERC: Can't we put through again the other tires? These are so bad!
Engineer: I will come back to you. OK, box now, box!
Yuki TSUNODA: I got the QF visor from the car in front, I think it looked like.
Engineer: So recap, it's turn 1 entry, a tenth, turn 6 entry, a tenth, and turn 9 mid-speed, almost another tenth.
Engineer: So it's 4 tenths to Verstappen, most of that, at least half of that is turn 3 Just take me through turn 3 please man Too quick on the way in or what? Looks like braking too early, carrying too much speed to the apex
Engineer: OK, tyre prep with all of this is sub-optimal, so don't worry too much about performance, we're just gathering data here, so just a nice clean lap Max.
Engineer: Some main losses to Max. A little bit mid-corner turn, 3, and then 6, 9, 10.
Engineer: So the rear tyres were a bit on the warm side for that lap. How are things from your side?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah,
Engineer: grip
Sergio PEREZ: from the rear mainly.
Lance STROLL: Am I taking the checkered flag? Yes, you're taking the checkered flag.
Engineer: So we need to take the chequered flag here? Yes, we still need to go around and take the chequered flag, so if we can cool the car and tyres on this lap we'll take the chequered flag at the end of it and then we'll do our formation lap procedure practice.
Engineer: It's round to the grid for practice start.
Sergio PEREZ: Let's review everything what we're doing in the medium speed corners. A bit on the neutral side.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, Choco.
Engineer: cancel the handbrake cancel handbrake
Engineer: Okay Lando as you approach the back it'll be by point find, four burnouts, first gear launch, ideally on the right hand side but forwards is our priority.
Engineer: Okay, you are the lead McLaren so keep good pace on this lap to build a gap to Lando so we can double shuffle both cars
Engineer: And remember, mode slow for the burnout. One burnout, left hand side, by point learn. No by point learn, no by point learn.
Nikita MAZEPIN: No by point learn.
Engineer: After you do the start, if you can, let's do the CSL after turn one.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Please have a look on the video screen now, we'll save time.
Engineer: Okay, yeah, we'll have a look. This is how much movement. Come out so straight into CSL if you can. Turn Russell close behind. Okay, now Giovinazzi three seconds behind, and let's come really slowly in, really slowly in. You can use the in button, the in button.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Why am I coming slowly in?
Engineer: Just to build a gap to Mick, to build a gap to Mick for the practice pit stop, the minute we're too close. Are
Nikita MAZEPIN: we not the first car this weekend?
Engineer: Yes, we are.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Something doesn't match up there, but up to you.
Engineer: Box Nikita, box, box Nikita, box. Okay to push now on the in lap. And Hamilton three behind, closing quickly.
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