Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
34 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2021, across 15 drivers. 28 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 6.
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 · 6 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
George RUSSELL: The brakes still feel very poor, long, spongy, poor deceleration.
Max VERSTAPPEN: But I feel like the wind maybe increased a bit.
Lando NORRIS: I want to change back to my original helmet as well.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: Right, so I'm not ready, so I'll go stretch 3 for the first one. Right then, you also have a lap in 14 if you need it or...
Lewis HAMILTON: It's hard to hear what you're saying, what you're saying dude?
Engineer: Middle, middle and last sector, how bad? Affirm, 4 tenths and 3 tenths on best sectors
Engineer: Rotors behind 7 seconds of charge in the wall, no big damages.
Valtteri BOTTAS: So there was a yellow
Engineer: F-15, it just cleared when you were getting there, so a lot of people popped up. Yeah, so it went off.
Engineer: You got
Lewis HAMILTON: more laps or is that it? Do whatever you need to do.
Engineer: Go mode push. Okay, watch for Bottas. Four seconds behind. He's got to come around the scroll. Bottas is missing a push.
Engineer: Stay out. Unboxing. Brakes are too hot to box, stay out.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I'm boxing Brakes are too hot to box, stay out Stay out Can
Max VERSTAPPEN: we drop the car a bit more like F31?
Engineer: And Mark's back into the garage. And Mark's back into the garage.
Engineer: Max.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Turning pit lane.
Engineer: Turning
Daniel RICCIARDO: pit lane.
Engineer: Stand for another stop.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Not yet. Float in yet? Not yet.
Engineer: I want to go to Taiwan.
Engineer: Mark, switch off. Just
Max VERSTAPPEN: have no grip, low speeds, doesn't grip up. Air France, mainly.
Engineer: Have we got more laps or is that it? You can take one more lap, it will be strat 14. Have we got
Lewis HAMILTON: more laps or is that it? Do whatever you need to do, I'm not going to get faster.
Engineer: OK, copy. It's up to you if you want to use it for learning, but otherwise we're ready to box and get on with the long run.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'll use it if I've got it.
Engineer: I don't really
Lewis HAMILTON: know where all the time is. Have
Engineer: we got more laps or is that it? You can take one more lap, it will be strat 14. Do whatever you need to do, I'm not going to get
Lewis HAMILTON: faster.
Engineer: OK, copy. It's up to you if you want to use it for learning, but otherwise we're ready to box and get on with the long run.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'll use it if I've got it.
Engineer: I don't really
Lewis HAMILTON: know where all the time is.
Engineer: Do
Lewis HAMILTON: whatever you need to do, I'm not going to get faster. Have
Engineer: we got more laps or is that it? You can take one more lap, it will be strat 14. I don't really know where all the time is.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah,
Engineer: we're overhating traffic. Now we start to look after them.
Nikita MAZEPIN: The grip was very good the first few laps, but now it's really overheating a lot.
Engineer: Let's manage the throttle applications and let's be easier on entries as well.
Yuki TSUNODA: My ratio is quite bad though Copy,
Engineer: last push on this tyre
Engineer: So Tony we need a better job on exit tyre management, focus exit tyre management.
Engineer: Sorry, my bad. Okay, we can fire up again, sorry. Or do you want me to manually fire up? So we've still got one minute, so yeah, if you can do the MJK fire up.
Yuki TSUNODA: Soft tyre degradation from rear rim rotation.
Sebastian VETTEL: Sorry for that misunderstanding. Somehow it was like hardwired to shut the engine down.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Is the pace like that fine?
Engineer: So that pace was pretty close to the pace of Russell who was on the medium, so it was really impressive mate
Sergio PEREZ: Sorry guys, I think I was angled right?
Engineer: Yeah, a bit of an angle and you didn't bring the car to a complete stop.
More from this weekend
Every session of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2021Search the full archive