Bahrain Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
52 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2021, across 19 drivers. 49 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Esteban OCON had the most, with 7.
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
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 7 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 6 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 4 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, we should have the green light anytime soon. Green light.
Engineer: How's the radio on track?
Esteban OCON: Much better, yeah, much better.
Engineer: OK, good stuff.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Esteban OCON: That's better, yeah.
Pierre GASLY: They released their car when I was coming Yeah,
Engineer: they just showed it on TV Ok, focus on tires now, position is good and we are phased with everyone else
Engineer: We'll be go one. If you can do any more braking, that will be good. Go one.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Yeah, the balance is all over the f***ing place.
Lance STROLL: Someone and a half just blocked me completely in 10-10.
Nikita MAZEPIN: The car is pulling a lot ever since the outlap on the brakes when I brake into one side. It's not even.
Engineer: Understood, understood. We're okay to push again, okay to push again.
Engineer: Turn six and seven minimum speed.
Engineer: We're seeing a strong tailwind into turn 8, so recommend cancel handbrake, cancel handbrake for turn 8.
Nicholas LATIFI: The car is loose.
Carlos SAINZ: I have more pulling on these brakes compared to FP1
Engineer: Ok, understood
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, the track is quite neutral. There's more grip, but the balance has shifted quite a lot to oversteer compared to FP1, so it makes sense.
George RUSSELL: The wind looks like it shifted a bit again.
Engineer: There was some
Lewis HAMILTON: power drops as I came across the line.
Engineer: Okay, copy. I'll be looking into it.
Engineer: Focus on tires and brakes. Target is zero at the front, zero at the rear.
Nicholas LATIFI: Ronin, if we could put the standard brake maps in for the peak pressure, just to have a standard. Feeling too much instability at peak pressure.
Engineer: So your lap time is 30.15 and you can watch your mirrors, watch your mirrors now, watch your mirrors.
Engineer: Hamilton first time lap, 31.0, so pretty nice job there, well done.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I'm a bit surprised with that, I guess the tow helped a bit, but... Yeah,
Engineer: it
Carlos SAINZ: was a big one, it was a big wave in
Engineer: front. Biggest
Carlos SAINZ: run, so to say.
Engineer: So we're still marching to improve, turn 527. Yeah,
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: I almost lost the car there.
Engineer: And we lost mainly into turn 4, entry 4, compared to sign.
Charles LECLERC: Copy, we need to work on that, but I had also traffic on that lap.
Engineer: Copy, we've seen that.
Engineer: OK dude, nice lap, nice lap, charge on, charge on. Absolutely screwed by the current front in the last corner was understood, a
Nikita MAZEPIN: shame.
Engineer: Understood, so that was Hamilton in front, gotcha, copy that. So Verstappen behind, he's just finished his push as well so he's in sync with you, so let's cool the tyres back down, cool the tyres. Double cool? Yes, Verstappen closing quickly, just watching Verstappen coming by. Yeah let's try double cool for now, double cool.
Engineer: And we suggest for turn 10 brake balance forwards and the toggle.
Engineer: I
Pierre GASLY: need to do something because I can't touch the throttle for some reason.
Engineer: Yeah, everyone seems to be struggling with the rear at the moment. And I think our first push up, we pushed a bit too hard on entry and we lost a lot on exit.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I know, but what I'm saying is that if we can do something for the rear grip on exit, that will help me to go faster. Yeah, all done, clear. I don't need more front.
Engineer: Has
Daniel RICCIARDO: anyone been able to improve on a second lap? I probably doubt it.
Engineer: No, so far no one has improved.
Engineer: OK Esteban, if we can do an aero P450 accrues after turn 10, and apologies any feedback you've got far away.
Esteban OCON: Copy, so the balance has switched around quite a lot, it's pretty hard to describe now, but basically it's quite oversteery, exit 4 and 6-7, but the selection is a lot better in all the other places, and the regroup is better, everywhere.
Engineer: OK Esteban, understood, that's something we'll have to look at probably after the session in enough detail to understand. You've got a clear track behind, we will box at the end of this lap please, box at the end of this lap.
Esteban OCON: Copy, but everywhere where I have snaps in the second lap is where I have the issues.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, understood. Well currently that puts us P11 at the moment, with everyone having run on softs now I think, so that's good. OK Esteban.
Engineer: take more of a gap for traffic that's coming out the pits, take more of a gap for traffic that's coming out the pits Brad
Lance STROLL: make a note the left hand side mirror is starting to tilt down
Engineer: Straight into the rhythm, we focus on these rear tires.
George RUSSELL: Big V rate into one
Engineer: There was not enough power to do the burn-off there. Okay, understood. Let's do the start anyway. Sight's coming out the last corner now. Might be worth just holding for a couple of seconds.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: For the start, the pedal drop was a bit short and overdriven in first gear on throttle application.
Carlos SAINZ: OK, one more lap, please. I cannot feel anything here at all.
Engineer: Clutch was 1% too aggressive. Clutch 1% too aggressive. Initial throttle good.
Engineer: Do you want to reset your fastest lap? Yes, please. Copy. Fail, 12, fail. Fail, 1, 2, fail.
Engineer: Reichenen ahead is on new C4 could be low fuel
Pierre GASLY: Guys, you think the DRS is everywhere? It's not fair.
Engineer: Ok, we have talk 12, talk 12. Negative.
Fernando ALONSO: He's understeering mid-corner and
Engineer: very snappy. Ok, understood. Misunderstood that. No.
Fernando ALONSO: I mean he's very oversteering, but not in mid-corner. We'll talk later.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: OK, Sven, please go back to mid-four please, mid-four.
Engineer: So offset to Verstappen 0.8 and there is a power difference on that.
Engineer: Suggest brake 4 to help look after the rear tyres as well, brake 4.
Esteban OCON: Turn 13, turn 6, turn 7, an exit of 4 is the issue.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: How is the tire? How is the tire?
Mick SCHUMACHER: Tire, to be honest, is not great.
Engineer: Which axle is the problem, or just all-around grip?
Mick SCHUMACHER: Mainly rears, but front's
Engineer: are
Mick SCHUMACHER: not great either.
Engineer: Strat 11. Strat 11, alternative deployment.
Engineer: Ayuki, back off and box, back off, back off, there is Latifi 2.5 behind, we have an issue, so we need to back off and box.
Engineer: It
Lando NORRIS: feels like I have so much engine braking on, it doesn't feel right.
Engineer: Has it been the same the whole run or just when we turned ACS? Yeah,
Lando NORRIS: the same the whole run.
Engineer: Okay and there's some time to gain, braking for turn 4 and exit of turn 14.
Engineer: Okay, pace so far similar to Sainz in the Ferrari. Let's see what's left these last two laps, two more timed laps.
Engineer: could have engine 13 position 9 engine 1 3 position 9 if you're not happy with drivability we'll make the change back let me know you
Max VERSTAPPEN: want me to drive around with the handbrake
Engineer: engine 13 position 7 engine 13 position 7
Engineer: OK, current gap to Checo is good, so maintain that Max, we're boxing this lap, it'll
Max VERSTAPPEN: be a practice pit stop. I'm just checking my dash, when I use the push toggle and then the pull toggle it overrides the push toggle so I cannot have them both switched on at the same time.
Engineer: OK, copy, we'll discuss afterwards, thank you.
Engineer: OK, nice work. Good job. And a tricky last run.
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