Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2021: Practice 1 team radio
24 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2021, across 11 drivers. 23 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Nicholas LATIFI 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
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Esteban OCON: All clear, steering a bit to the right I think.
Engineer: Copy that, understood.
Carlos SAINZ: I have some brake vibrations.
Engineer: see
Carlos SAINZ: the vibrations is quite bad. It almost feels like the front brakes more than the rear I think.
Nikita MAZEPIN: The rears are quite good, but the front has a lot of sliding and it gets bombed
George RUSSELL: The brake pedal feels a bit locked
Daniel RICCIARDO: Where's the main area so I can improve? I think turn 3 is a bit, that's quite obvious for me, I can do better there. Anything else just let me know. So
Engineer: turn 3 is coming on well, there's possibly a little time to find braking for the castle, turn 8. Don't let that compromise your turn in there, the time to find is in straight line braking. And also the final corner, you need to commit to turn in, in the final corner.
Yuki TSUNODA: But later in the game I have quite a lot of others there in the slow speed corner.
Nicholas LATIFI: The rear is feeling very poor on this love floating around no confidence yet
Engineer: Okay, we're in a good gap here. Let's keep building.
Engineer: There's a green button pointing at my nash. Okay, I will check. This is the delta time, so basically it's saying you're too slow for the delta time, but don't need to worry about it for now.
Engineer: So you have Perez, he'll be starting a push behind, 2.5. Yeah, he blocked. I know, he didn't do you any favors. We reported it. Okay, so watch Perez behind and charge on.
Engineer: There's a yellow turn 4 for Tsunoda in escape road So you can either abandon this lap and push next one or just back off in 4 and finish the lap Yellow turn 4 Tsunoda escape road
Mick SCHUMACHER: Yeah, abandon this one
Engineer: Daniel, there is still yellow flags. It looks like Sunoda cannot move the car at the moment.
Engineer: So the tyres looked in a better window for that lap. How's the balance on your side?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I think they're just getting better, the tyres.
Engineer: I
Nicholas LATIFI: don't
Engineer: know
Nicholas LATIFI: why these guys are going slow. It's
Engineer: the
Nicholas LATIFI: most dangerous part.
Nicholas LATIFI: I was feeling a weird vibration, just before pit entry, when I was full throttle. Okay, we'll have a look. It didn't feel like a tire vibration. It felt like something else.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, the cool-down knob needs to be very slow to
Engineer: put
Carlos SAINZ: a bit of overheating.
Nicholas LATIFI: The tires are gone.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Something wrong with the clutch again. Clutch pedal.
Engineer: Okay, just release it and pull it in gently, as clean as you can, straight towards you, without moving it up or down if possible.
Pierre GASLY: Ah f**k, they're at the corner. I'm an idiot.
Engineer: Copy that, it's probably a 10-4-4 there. Anyway, it's a bit more in the pocket for later.
Yuki TSUNODA: Don't cut me off copy
Engineer: you close the lap and we need to cool down
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Yeah, but something is wrong with the settings. I'm turning my battery completely before the start of the race. Why is it completely empty? I don't know. I'll come back to you, Mozart. So where's the issue? In the settings somewhere? You check and you tell me. Yeah,
Engineer: yeah,
Kimi RAIKKONEN: yeah. Watch for a point in the meantime,
Engineer: Mozart.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: How difficult can it be?
Engineer: Come back. But is there something that I don't... that we can do in one lap? No, we can't. Some setting that we can... Is something in the setting in the background being pulled to the box or moving to the box? We cannot change it on a switch, basically. So it's something in the background.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Was this issue in the first lap also? Yes, eight laps, yeah. Nobody noticed. But nobody noticed there. It was only just one hundred degrees out of the three laps.
Nicholas LATIFI: I don't know. It could just be that it's
Engineer: a
Nicholas LATIFI: massive bag. I don't know. The rear tires don't look too happy.
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