Austrian Grand Prix 2021: Race team radio
147 radio messages were recorded during race at the Austrian Grand Prix 2021, across 19 drivers. 146 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 19.
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 · 19 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 18 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 16 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 13 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 12 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 10 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 8 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 7 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 7 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 7 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 7 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And they're just going to push you out, Lando. They'll push you out.
Pierre GASLY: Okay, I don't see still three times
Engineer: pushing until the exit of four. Okay so cool the car for pit entry.
Engineer: And Daniel, measured wind similar to yesterday, if anything a little bit calmer, so more dominated by the following effect from the cars.
Engineer: Okay mate, how is the car balance? How is the car balance?
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I'm happy.
Engineer: OK, so brake temperature's all good. Two more laps, please, two more laps.
George RUSSELL: 100% something's not right guys, with the rear of
Engineer: the
George RUSSELL: car, 100%
Engineer: OK, so you're going to the grid. At the back of the grid we'll switch the car to P1. Steering P1 please.
Engineer: Ok mate, no full throttle, no full throttle, cool the car, cool the car and we go to the grid We go to the grid, please confirm Yeah, call car Ok understood, remember when you arrive at the back of the grid, set the car into P1
Engineer: So the data looks okay for our car, so let's just go around to the grid and
George RUSSELL: we'll take a look.
Yuki TSUNODA: And also there's a bit of, I think, a bit of issue in steering, just winking around, it's not consistently, sometimes blackouts, could you check, now it's fixed maybe, and front right, also could you check if there is a graining or not.
Engineer: Yes we will, can you show Mauro about the steering wheel, please.
Engineer: And switch off Max.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Just one thing while driving, I don't hear you very well, it's like the volume is a bit down.
Engineer: OK copy, I will try and get that sorted.
Engineer: So yeah Lewis, I've come down that one turn but yeah as Marcus reminded you, it is clouding over a little bit now.
Lewis HAMILTON: Just tell me Bono, so you said on those laps of the grid the tyres were cool, so is it rears leading the front? Yep, copy.
Engineer: So
Lewis HAMILTON: once the front, once the rears start overheating it's going to go to oversteer so I think one more down will be good. Yeah,
Engineer: copy.
Engineer: And so the volume has been increased. Formation lights are here. for the dummy launch and formation lights. off and on the car.
Engineer: Wind is still light, looking at the flags coming from the south, so Vettel went on exit of 1. The cars in front will probably have a bigger effect for you. Keep me updated on the wind if you see, in real time, in lap 10 or lap 20 or whatever. If you see a clear wind direction, it may help.
Engineer: Alright mate, most of the people on mediums, but two cars, Sainz and Raikkonen with the hat on. Have a good race!
Engineer: Okay, so Once the engine is fired up, pit speed limiter on, first gear start and you keep pit speed limiter on until pull position Work the rear tires on the formation map Retouch off after turn 10 and then three burnouts from the DRS line We're not where we need to be here Let's use that anger from yesterday Let's have a good one
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, let's try to enjoy And learn from this one
Engineer: NASCAR approaching the grid now
Mick SCHUMACHER: I'll contact you after turn 3.
Engineer: Understood. We're checking everything. Pressure's OK.
Esteban OCON: I'm out guys, that's it.
Engineer: So it looks like this Safety Guy's Ocon stopped between turns three and four
Engineer: So exit 03, debris all the way past the Aramco gantry.
Engineer: Lewis we'll leave it up to you, but Strat 5 or 6 for the restart, currently in Strat 6.
Engineer: Okay so that was a great start mate actually P11 Leclerc is on medium but ahead of him is the four soft starters so you can have opportunities on them through the first stint
Fernando ALONSO: Okay, so Ricciardo out of one, gained three or four positions, so I guess penalty will come very soon.
Engineer: I
Fernando ALONSO: mean, it was amazing what he did, amazing.
Engineer: Yeah so safety car is in this lap Max, safety car is in this lap. So nice and positive on your brakes at the moment, got plenty of margin for front brake temperature.
Engineer: So just cancel the magic and you'll be good to go.
Sergio PEREZ: Hey, push me up!
Engineer: So my way's to go, mode 7, mode 7, reset your bias off 7.
Engineer: So there is drop down to P10. Let's follow Lewis through Norris.
Engineer: So it's Leclerc behind, Daniel in front.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, I know you're fighting but your brakes are very hot.
Engineer: DRS enabled DRS enabled we'll stay with these guys and get our brakes under control
Engineer: Strat 3, Strat 3, that'll bring performance. DRS enabled, DRS enabled.
Engineer: Gasly's doing ten point fours ten point fours. Yeah,
Lando NORRIS: okay. I don't care
Engineer: Okay, so Daniel in front is on mediums and the four cars in front of him are on softs, so we will be looking to over cut those
Charles LECLERC: What's going on with the brakes guys? What's with the brake balance? It's weird.
Engineer: And think about MODX, think about MODX.
Lewis HAMILTON: Very hard to follow.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Engineer: Let's do one more step saving turn 9 please, one more step of saving turn 9, you see 1.8 behind
Engineer: Ok Kimi, Russell and Sainz being told to manage more the tyres, we believe they could be on one stop.
Engineer: Gap 4.3
Engineer: Sonoda may be starting to struggle with tyres, he is the car ahead of Stroll.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Understood.
Lando NORRIS: I mean, he's quicker. What do you
Engineer: want
Lando NORRIS: my wrist load to be?
Engineer: OK, Lando, we're using the rear left tyre a bit too much. If we can keep him behind us without using the tyre, it's OK.
Engineer: Push now, push now.
Engineer: confirm
Valtteri BOTTAS: i'm driving to a plan a at the moment copy
Engineer: that plenty of space behind
Engineer: Hamilton 0.9 Bottas 4.1 Gasly 11.5
Engineer: Ok Pierre, another target now, we push on
Engineer: Norris under investigation, he might get a 5 second penalty
Engineer: 21
Lewis HAMILTON: .7 back up
Engineer: Stand by And loose, let's just keep the pressure on for the time being
Engineer: Ok Kimi, Russell being told to stop using overtake, so he might be vulnerable
Engineer: Yeah, Checo, we're looking at the options this stage, looking to go long.
Engineer: Lucy if you can give us a balance check when you can That's looking pretty
Lewis HAMILTON: good, rear is going nice
Engineer: Okay, Leclerc 1.5, let's go.
Engineer: Okay Lando last lap 109.6 most of that's in high speed time to find in high speed
Engineer: So out of the toe when you can Bait temps are limiting
Lando NORRIS: His rear brakes are on fire.
Lewis HAMILTON: Such a great job, Atlanta.
Engineer: Gap behind 0.9, let's get some feedback on tyres, how are the tyres? The rears are coming back to me like a yo-yo to be honest.
Engineer: Pace is good Daniel is coming though. It's coming mate. It's good
Engineer: And we'll be SAM mode 1, SAM mode 1.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I don't know, I think Plan B, Plan C, Plan ******
Engineer: And multifunction position tyre when you can, position tyre when you can
Max VERSTAPPEN: Um, yeah, becoming a little bit more difficult now with tires, but, yeah.
Engineer: Understood, mate. Thank you.
Engineer: We have a five second penalty, we have a five second penalty, but it's okay. A moment. For what? The gap, don't worry about now, the gap to Daniel is 24.9. If we extend a bit, we'll make the gap good.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, whatever. If it's for love one, then what did the guy expect trying to go around the outside?
Pierre GASLY: What's the pace like? I feel like we're so f***ing slow.
Engineer: Ricardo is doing 10-0, but we are in traffic. Ricardo is doing low 10. So once we clear Latifi, we need to target low 10, high 9.
Engineer: Hamilton's last lap was a 9.3, 9.3.
Engineer: So the race situation, you have 23 seconds to Ricciardo, so you have the pit stop gap, Norris with a 5 second penalty, doesn't.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's getting slowly a bit worse now, but don't react too quick, it's all ok.
Engineer: OK, Kimi, how do you feel on your tires?
Kimi RAIKKONEN: All good.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Engineer: OK George, gap behind 1.0. Let's keep pushing, let's keep pushing. How is the balance? It's coming back to me but it's still quite on my nose.
George RUSSELL: Probably one turn and a half down for this tyre.
Engineer: So box, box, box. Follow Norris. If you box, you're boxing. Otherwise, stay out.
Engineer: So Daniel's pitted. Leclerc's lost his toast again.
Engineer: OK Max, so Hamilton, Bottas and Norris have all pitted, we are box in this lap please, box and pit confirm this lap.
Engineer: OK Chico, when the move's not on, stay on top of your lifting coast.
Engineer: You have blue flags
Engineer: And Verstappen in the pit lane now. Should we
Lewis HAMILTON: take care of tyres or?
Engineer: AFM Lewis, look after these ones to the end, it'll be 39 when you cross the line. And Verstappen in the pit lane now. Should we
Lewis HAMILTON: take care of tyres or?
Engineer: AFM Lewis, look after these ones to the end, it'll be 39 when you cross the line.
Engineer: Just bring the tire in really gently, Max.
Engineer: So Verstappen 13 seconds ahead on new hard tyres That'll
Lewis HAMILTON: be so far ahead
Engineer: Yeah he managed to build that gap whilst we were racing Doris
Engineer: Good job, Yuki. Use the Fiat now.
Engineer: So please stay away from exit curb at 10, Lewis, my head, some damage from that.
Engineer: Lewis may have picked up some damage to the rear left aero surfaces The
Lewis HAMILTON: rear doesn't feel good at all
Engineer: Lewis, you may have picked up some damage to the rear left aero surfaces
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, the rear doesn't feel good at all
Lance STROLL: Losing rears a bit.
Engineer: Copy that.
Lance STROLL: Consider boxing soon.
Engineer: OK Max, I think we've got the margin at this stage to keep the car within the white lines as much as possible. Stay off the kerbs where possible so I can notice home all the way.
Engineer: Do your thing Daniel do your thing
Engineer: The
Lewis HAMILTON: rear is definitely struggling in the high.
Engineer: You can push more in the high speed if you can just watch traction slip in turn one and three.
Charles LECLERC: What the ****?
Engineer: suggest red mid five red mid five for turn three rotation
Nikita MAZEPIN: I will push maximum from now on.
Charles LECLERC: Did he break my car?
Engineer: We think everything is fine with the car? Everything okay?
Engineer: Gasly fitted this tire on lap 12 and will pit again
Engineer: I think this is good pace while managing. Hopefully the temps roll over and then you get some balance and performance back. Anything you need help with?
Mick SCHUMACHER: That's fine.
Engineer: How many more laps do you think? Gasly, lap time 9.5.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, small mistake, but I still have grip.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Ok Nicky, 27 to go, you need to manage turn 9, you're not doing it
Nicholas LATIFI: I am, if
Engineer: I manage any more it's gonna be too close for DRS so... Understood, I think you need to manage more, I'll feed back to you Gap 0.9, Gap 0.6 you're safe, you're safe
Engineer: Come
Charles LECLERC: on, this guy's the f***er. Get out the f***ing way.
Engineer: Okay, we've seen that just remember he has a five seconds penalty
Engineer: So Luis has damage, do not race it for now, we will review.
Engineer: Zalando Bottas has been told not to overtake Hamilton so that leaves the door open for us
Engineer: Ok Camille you can go back to Sock 7, you will see Stroll has pitted. And ahead of you is Mazepin, just came out on hard.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: It's another time left.
Engineer: Negative, negative, he will have blue flag for you.
Lewis HAMILTON: I don't think I'm going to be
Engineer: able
Lewis HAMILTON: to aim this tile after it.
Engineer: Yeah, copy, we're looking at options.
Engineer: You're free to race Lewis
Engineer: Okay, and Russell ahead of you struggling so let's let's get him
Engineer: OK, Valtteri, we'll invert the cars into Turn 1.
Carlos SAINZ: Now time for the guys in front.
Engineer: Ricciardo is 9.0, they are 9.0.
Engineer: Copy Lewis, we are monitoring it. How much downforce have I lost? Box, box, box, box. We're going to get a free stop now, we'll correct this balance. Watch the white line. Copy, we're doing that.
Engineer: OK Lando, Hamilton pitted behind you, we're very much plan A, let's go get Bottas.
Lando NORRIS: Brake pedal's going a bit longer I think.
Engineer: OK we're checking out, OK Lando we think just pad knock-off turn one.
Engineer: OK, race update Max, Norris also past Hamilton, Hamilton is in the pit lane for a second stop. Bottas last lap 8.8, Bottas last lap 8.7.
Max VERSTAPPEN: They are pushing right, because they are close to each other.
Engineer: Correct, Norris is 1.5 behind.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Lewis HAMILTON: Let me hope
Engineer: Max, could I have a front wing update for a potential repeat stint on the hard tyre please? Front wing update.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, that's in, that's good.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: That's a very good pace, you can sustain it, just up and behind 7.8.
Lance STROLL: Move!
Engineer: So Ricciardo seems to be struggling quite a bit. Ricciardo is our target. Sainz is matching our pace, matching our pace Sainz.
Engineer: Box and pick and firm please Max. Box, pick and firm.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Strat 12,
Engineer: Strat 12, nice and calm.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Can I go for a faster lap? What mode?
Engineer: Okay, let's have mode 2. Mode 2, you still currently have purple lap. Mode 2 for one lap. But don't totally abuse the tyres, please.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: So, I have won six times now? No, three times now? Yes, exactly. So you just have a black and white flag for 10 minutes. Yeah, but thanks to what the f***? Yeah, I have a problem with this girl. If you don't tell me, how the f*** should I know?
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: Gap at point eight suggests go race mode eight and we can use the overtake where we need and we'll get a blue from Verstappen this lap, who's just behind Alonso now. Alonso's got two strikes for track limits at turn nine, that's a blue for Verstappen, blue for Verstappen.
Engineer: Okay mate, so there was a cut on the rear right tyre.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I don't know, I just don't have enough space really, can't get close enough
Carlos SAINZ: Thank you, I'll try my best.
Engineer: So Raikkonen and Vettel are catching Alonso, so they'll start putting him under pressure soon.
Engineer: Okay, Kimmy, be careful, track limit, turn 10.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Why the f**k did you tell me now? Why the f**k did you tell me now, after third time? If you don't tell me, how the f**k should I know?
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: And we do want to try to keep Perez behind so he drops as many places. Be good for the team.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm trying, man.
Engineer: I know Bottas coming up on some backmarkers, there's four of them.
Lando NORRIS: Say it again when no cars are going past the freaking pit lane. I can't hear you.
Engineer: Bottas is coming up on backmarkers, five laps to go including this one.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah I can see that.
Engineer: The last lap.
Carlos SAINZ: Come on baby
Engineer: Okay, Leclerc 1.6. You've got to stay ahead of Leclerc. Leclerc is fighting with Gasly. That's your target now.
Engineer: Great job Max, great job, pole fastest lap race win.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Wow, even better than last week, the car was on rails on every tyre, incredible guys.
Engineer: That was clinical Max, fantastic, absolute clean slate, well done mate.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Congrats everyone, that's just amazing, let's keep this up.
Engineer: Well done Valtteri, good job. Strut one, pick up rubber when you can. Really, really good job.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Thanks guys, well done.
Engineer: What the f***
Kimi RAIKKONEN: happened there? Ah no, there was 7 Yeah, I can see about that I don't know, no word Watch for Antonio I mean, it makes no difference We would have been out of points Sure I don't know, it's
Engineer: a bit strange Do
Kimi RAIKKONEN: you want that I finish or I compose? Yes, yes, finish, finish
Engineer: that's p3 p3 yeah
Lando NORRIS: good job mind you know i'm not happy should have been p2 but good improvement from last weekend we were fighting them when we were better so yeah sorry about lap one but i don't know what i should have done yeah
Engineer: mate i know you about that but don't worry about it ironically he got a penalty for doing the same thing later
Engineer: OK Lewis, sorry about that mate. It's a P4 today, but yeah, a decent drive with the amount of damage that you had on that car.
Lewis HAMILTON: Sorry to lose you guys those points.
Engineer: No, thanks for persevering Lewis. I'm sure it's been a tough day.
Lewis HAMILTON: How many points did we lose?
Engineer: Yeah, so that's a 14 point hit. Definitely not what we needed.
Engineer: Good job, mate. Good job. That chequered flag. Chequered flag. And you are go in, go in, and we need a slow in lap. Slow in lap. That was a good race. I know it was not easy, but that was a good race. Good job.
Nicholas LATIFI: Remember to switch everything off. We were slow. I don't understand you say it's a good race. I was slow.
Engineer: Because it was difficult for you and you managed it well. It was not easy. I saw that.
Nicholas LATIFI: I don't care about managing it. We need to be quicker than this. Anyways.
Engineer: Lando Norris congratulations you are the driver of the day a time penalty but still a podium position talk us through it
Lando NORRIS: yeah I mean I don't like I'm not happy which is great really because I'm still on the podium but we had awesome pace the team did a great job with the car and it was a was a lot of fun fighting these top guys and I'm getting stuck in but uh we could have been p2 but apart from that I can see all of these orange fans on the left now all just coming to support McLaren so yeah thanks to all of them
Engineer: well drink it in and enjoy the podium congratulations Lando driver of the day in Austria thank you
Engineer: Difficult race, Antonio. First up in one, Bottas second, Norris P3, Russell P11, you finish P14, Kimi P16.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Why we get the 5 sec on penalty, I don't understand.
Engineer: Antonio, we will discuss later.
Engineer: Yes baby, P5, P5 confirmed, nice job, you nailed it mate.
Carlos SAINZ: Come on baby, what a end of the race, we worked hard for this one. Trickier than expected but a good result guys, definitely.
Engineer: Yeah it was a tough one to manage yeah. And
Carlos SAINZ: thank you for the shots.
Engineer: Checo, great person that, closing stages, finished P6, Sainz got Daniel with a lap or two to go. That was a good recovery Checo, racing against the clock, well done mate, you got the sixth place. What happened there with Norris? Yeah, he got a penalty as well.
Engineer: Chequered flag, chequered flag, P13, P13. They take the pick up on the way in. So it's this soft start as Gasly managed to get 9th, Alonso 10th, Russell was 11th, Sano the 12th and you 13th. The second stint on the hard tyre was quite a bit stronger than the first stint so I think we was disturbed by the debris in the brake duct there.
Lance STROLL: Yeah, also just had so much traffic at the beginning of the second stint with Mazepin
Engineer: which
Lance STROLL: lost a lot of race time.
Engineer: Copy that Lance.
Engineer: Well done, Daniel. Well done. That's P7. Well done, mate. Unlucky with Sainz at the end. He had a bit more tyre, but still, P7 is a great result. Good job. And Lando was P3 as well.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK. Yeah, just the last eight laps, I struggled a lot with the rears, but yeah, I think we did well. Thanks, guys. Well done. Congrats on the podium as well.
Engineer: Cheers, Daniel. Well done. Well done today.
Engineer: 12, 12 others unfortunately we have another 5 seconds time penalty but we keep the position since Troll was far away P1, Verstappen, Bottas Norris, Hamilton, Sainz Perez, Ricciardo, Leclerc Gasly, Alonso I
Yuki TSUNODA: got 5 seconds penalty, another one
Engineer: same, crossing the line, P10, Ryuki
Charles LECLERC: Paris is a f***ing joke, a f***ing joke, come on a 10 seconds penalty, he's so finished he's in front of us, twice off track, what a d***, he f***ed
Engineer: up
Charles LECLERC: our race.
Engineer: Okay George, good job mate, good job. So that is P11, that's P11. It's a go in lap.
George RUSSELL: Sorry guys, I did everything I could. Wasn't enough today. It was just too quick.
Engineer: I don't apologise, that was mega, that was really really good, so good job.
Pierre GASLY: Yellow turn 4 Sorry Yeah that's *** Oh **** sick You had him, you had him You had got a lucky escape there Lucky escape How the **** did we finish? We have P9, P9 Yeah **** so frustrating to come so close Yeah I know, let's keep focusing on the positive mate, honestly No it's really good,
Engineer: I
Pierre GASLY: know, I know Just two more laps, one, two more laps Anyway good job Yeah and Alonso is P10 so we still put more points than these two teams So it's still good for the championship, ok? Yeah that was good Anyway thanks, now we focus on Silverstone
Engineer: Anyway
Pierre GASLY: we have the pace to fight with them so Next time we'll get
Engineer: them Thank
Pierre GASLY: you
Engineer: OK mate, so scenario 12 please, scenario 12, and that's P10, P10, that's great work, fighting your way back in the points mate, should have been more, we all know that, but great to see you fighting back and getting the point.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, well done guys, at least we continue scoring every Sunday, some consecutive weekends already now, so good job everyone. That
Engineer: also means we need to keep track walking mate.
Fernando ALONSO: Ah, I forgot this, I was ready to skip it, I think I did stop a little bit long on the pit, sorry.
Engineer: Good night. No drama, that wasn't the issue.
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