Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2021: Practice 3 team radio
15 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2021, across 11 drivers. Sergio PEREZ had the most, with 3.
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 · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: So wind looks pretty calm, a bit of tailwind into 15.
Sergio PEREZ: I'm having a bit of a long pedal, brake pedal.
Engineer: Copy, we'll have a look.
Nicholas LATIFI: The rear tires will be not good for the next lap, but it's
Engineer: not
Nicholas LATIFI: going to take any risk, just try to learn something. Yeah, exactly. Use
Engineer: your tools.
George RUSSELL: Not a lot of front load into turn 16 under braking
Engineer: The
George RUSSELL: brakes are continuously getting lost, lap by lap, outlap by outlap. Just feel the big disparity from the rear.
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: just got completely screwed.
Pierre GASLY: yeah middle sector started to be better traction was not as good as previous run and then I slided on the kerb I tried false gear last corner because I wanted to try but not good okay copy that we focus on the next lap focus on the next lap
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, I locked up 10-10-6-5, sorry, so I took shelter.
Engineer: Copy that, Antonio.
Engineer: So box, checko box for a front wing swap.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: So we cannot do one up, right?
Engineer: Correct. We might have a further damage, so box the slab. Box, box.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Copy.
Sergio PEREZ: No, the rears are not coming in.
Lando NORRIS: I clipped the wall in the castle section, to 13 I think, but
Engineer: I think everything's fine. Okay, we're just checking everything now, and please complete the lap, complete the lap.
Engineer: OK Esteban, let's go recharge on and cool the car please and box this lap, good job. OK, turned out to be a very useful run, good job. Copy that.
Engineer: There's something that's broken in the front. OK, copy. So take it easy in braking. No, no, no, no. OK. I
Kimi RAIKKONEN: don't know what's wrong. OK,
Engineer: we're just stopping you in front. Take it easy.
Carlos SAINZ: I felt a lot more grip in turn 1 and 2. Yeah, it was a strong 1 and 2, yeah, and then the tyres a bit down, I guess, at the rear. Yeah, but too much, eh? We are too cold on the first lap.
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