Bahrain Grand Prix 2021: Practice 3 team radio
40 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Bahrain Grand Prix 2021, across 14 drivers. Valtteri BOTTAS had the most, with 9.
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
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 9 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Straight out, truck is clear
Engineer: So arrows currently showing headwind, sorry tailwind into four. Just have a look at the flag. You've got a better read Headwind into four according to the flag
Engineer: So P2 is showing headwind out to 1, apex on 1, headwind into 4.
Engineer: Still all quiet in a pit lane.
Engineer: I already struggle to charge the pack Aether So we strat 5 lap I already struggle to charge the pack Aether So we strat 5 lap
Engineer: So all clear on track, only yourself and Alonso, it'll be strat 5.
Engineer: Valtteri had his lap deleted for track limits turn 4.
Engineer: So defy speed 6 foot 10, 6, you're picking tailwind into 6.
Charles LECLERC: The grip is incredibly low, I'm struggling quite a lot with the cardamom.
Lewis HAMILTON: See if you can pull the hard tyre out.
Engineer: Yeah, there's a mix, soft, medium and hard.
Mick SCHUMACHER: Was the radio connection light down for a second?
Engineer: I don't know, so I lost track that you've boarded the lap, so we just need to go charge on, let's get the tire temps down and we'll go again. Watch for Vettel now, Vettel 3 behind on a push, Vettel 2, Vettel 1.
Engineer: And clutch position was on target.
Engineer: Losing time to Nicholas, turn 6, turn 11, 6 potentially traffic.
George RUSSELL: There's no potential, there was definitely traffic.
Fernando ALONSO: front locking into one is a problem
Engineer: Yeah, but I don't remember exactly... So it's headwind into turn 4,
Pierre GASLY: tailwind turn 9
Engineer: -10. We have new brakes, do the work on the brakes.
Engineer: So lap deleted, track limit is 10-4, last lap
Lando NORRIS: Just look at 10-10, still just finding it very tricky, might just be the wind but see if there's anything else I can do, mainly front locking.
Engineer: OK understood, we're on it.
Engineer: Yellow flag yellow flag
Engineer: On second cooldown we need to wake up the front brakes please, wake up the front tires and front brakes second cooldown
Engineer: Turn 19 was very good compared to Norris. Only place we lost a little bit was turn 7, but we're talking 30 milliseconds
Engineer: Prepare for the lap, recharge off and push.
Engineer: Ok that's a very good job here, very disciplined with your wheelspin, that was a very good lap We want to see the same again when we have this kind of conditions Tyres were not easy, but you did the right thing with managing your tyres, good job
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, box, box, something came off, something
Engineer: from the front left corner came off and hit me in the face.
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't care. There's not much meaning to do it, maybe, but I don't know.
Engineer: Yeah, agreed, agreed.
George RUSSELL: I feel like I got a little bit of right hand down, my biggie.
Engineer: So 13 kilometers, headwind, 8, 2, 3.
Engineer: So wind again picking up headwind 8 pixel 1
Engineer: So Yuki, big picture, we are losing a lot in the straights, so we are looking at it, and then I will let you know about corners.
Yuki TSUNODA: Ok,
Engineer: there
Yuki TSUNODA: is quite a lot of mistakes, the turn 10, I over pushed too much, and also turn 11 was not great in the exit, also last corner I got a massive snap in the exit.
Engineer: Press here to create the turn, the corner turn, the turn again, and now I am placing it
Engineer: Bunch of cars on an outlap in front
Carlos SAINZ: I don't need the lap, in terms of driving I think I'm gonna be slower, so I don't know
Engineer: I would recommend to take it, that's my recommendation, but it's up to you Ok,
Carlos SAINZ: that will cool down then
Carlos SAINZ: How is the ending? Can I afford to go slower now?
Engineer: It's good what you are doing. Just to know that for the situation we cannot abort and come in. So you can take your lap and do the in-lap after, if it makes sense.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, don't worry.
Engineer: Daniel I think the only thing that might be worth doing there's possibly still a bit to find in the braking for turn one suggest maybe we do a single cool down lap and push into turn one and try and challenge the braking a bit find out a bit more where the limit is turn one and then box do
Daniel RICCIARDO: you any
Engineer: interest in that okay
Daniel RICCIARDO: yeah I could try
Engineer: So Daniel Lando locked up on this run in turn one that was from carrying the brake pressure deep into the stop So he locked in phase two of braking There's really phase one where I think there's margin to exploit Like a bigger peak pressure to stop the car later initially and bring it down to the same speed by the time you're trying to turn in Okay,
Daniel RICCIARDO: thanks for that
Engineer: I'll give it a go
Mick SCHUMACHER: Can you please tell me if I was on the late side for braking? I think I was, but I'm not quite sure what happened on the exit, if it was just the undersea that pushed me wide, or
Engineer: if it was because I was braking too late. Yep, understood. We'll take a look. Yep, Ed says turn 14, brake too late. Copy, yeah, I thought so. Sorry about that. That's a good assessment, though. Okay, Hamilton 10 behind. Hamilton is...
Engineer: How do you feel about doing another lap on this set?
Esteban OCON: Yeah, I'm down for it.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, so practice pit entry, mode 4, 3 burnouts, static by point and the start.
Engineer: So you can go slower on this cool-down lap. You've got another 20 seconds in the pocket. Keeping an
Sebastian VETTEL: eye on the pack.
Engineer: Yeah, copy.
Engineer: Okay, leave the launch map on attack into the box
Engineer: Ok Mick, press in button, press in button, cool the car and we need a very slow in lap because we want to make a gap to Nikita ahead so you can do a practice pit stop too, so just go very very slow on this in lap so we can do another practice pit stop. You have Sainz behind, everyone is boxing but just watch for Sainz, now Giovinazzi and then Ricciardo.
Mick SCHUMACHER: Copy, unfortunately I had the pit limit on.
Engineer: Yep, understood.
Fernando ALONSO: Lack of rotation, low speed and oversteer, medium and high.
Engineer: Are you okay to talk in the car or do you want to jump out?
Mick SCHUMACHER: Uh, my bladder's about to pop. Okay, why don't we jump out then? I'll help
Engineer: you
Mick SCHUMACHER: get out.
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