Belgian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 1 team radio

Every message, in the order it happened

1. George RUSSELLWilliams10:16:19

   Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

2. Carlos SAINZFerrari10:33:53

   Carlos SAINZ: Jason Lee, ready for slings, I'm going to take it easy.

   Engineer: OK, understood.

3. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri10:34:23

   Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, out of the turn 1 exit, it's quite dry. Yeah, it's dry.

4. Mick SCHUMACHERHaas10:34:49

   Engineer: And how is the track? It

   Mick SCHUMACHER: feels a bit wet, but it doesn't look wet.

5. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren10:36:38

   Engineer: Do you think it's dry enough to learn something on the medium time?

   Daniel RICCIARDO: It's very close. I'll see how the next half of the lap is. OK, understood.

   Engineer: But

   Daniel RICCIARDO: it's close.

   Engineer: OK, we'll stand by.

6. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren10:37:55

   Engineer: And Daniel, do you think there's anywhere where it isn't ready for dry tyres?

   Daniel RICCIARDO: So it was a little more wet in, I think 13, around that area, so yeah, I'll box because we're

   Engineer: going

   Daniel RICCIARDO: to destroy the inter, but then I think we can probably wait a couple of minutes before we make the next decision.

   Engineer: OK, understood.

7. Carlos SAINZFerrari10:39:28

   Carlos SAINZ: What is their forecast?

   Engineer: No more rain, no more rain for the rest half an hour at least

8. Lando NORRISMcLaren10:41:40

   Engineer: It's

   Lando NORRIS: completely dry.

9. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo10:49:02

   Engineer: Yeah, I almost

   Kimi RAIKKONEN: did the brilliant job to complete this stuff. I just saw that. The guy was looking at me and this is showing him to come.

10. George RUSSELLWilliams10:53:40

    George RUSSELL: What's Stroll doing? He just stayed right in my way.

    Engineer: Yeah,

    George RUSSELL: that's very silly from Stroll.

11. Lance STROLLAston Martin10:53:49

    Engineer: You need to push through, Aruj. You can't do that.

    Lance STROLL: I thought he was closer.

12. Esteban OCONAlpine10:54:10

    Engineer: Currently sat in P1. Good job.

13. Lance STROLLAston Martin10:58:20

    Engineer: Traffic.

14. Charles LECLERCFerrari11:00:13

    Charles LECLERC: Good for a lot of understand

15. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes11:01:11

    Lewis HAMILTON: Feels necessarily so up straight.

    Engineer: Okay, copy.

16. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes11:03:04

    Lewis HAMILTON: Where am I now?

    Engineer: Mainly straight line speed to Valtteri, that's to be expected though.

17. Kimi RAIKKONENAlfa Romeo11:03:49

    Kimi RAIKKONEN: Oh f***, I hit the wall on the entry. I don't know how much room there is.

    Engineer: Yeah, we will check, Kimi, we will check.

18. George RUSSELLWilliams11:05:13

    George RUSSELL: Lift the rear up

19. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes11:05:43

    Engineer: VATRI be cautious on pit entry Kimi had a bit of a tank slapper and hit the wall you might have seen some yellows waved in pit lane

20. George RUSSELLWilliams11:07:04

    Engineer: We can afford to push the front right for temp front right rest is good

21. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri11:08:06

    Yuki TSUNODA: I think the front is overheating quite a lot, and the 37 was really understeering.

    Engineer: Yes, agreed, agreed.

22. Sergio PEREZRed Bull11:08:19

    Engineer: Be cautious on the pit entry, some suspicion it might be wet or greasy.

23. Nikita MAZEPINHaas11:08:33

    Nikita MAZEPIN: Negative, I mean, I cannot improve, the rears are gone.

    Engineer: OK, in which case we'll box at the end of this lap, box at the end of this lap.

24. George RUSSELLWilliams11:11:08

    George RUSSELL: we can still make a bigger step with the setup no issue front locking all

    Engineer: right roger

25. Esteban OCONAlpine11:14:04

    Engineer: OK, so an impossible light rain expected in about 10 minutes.

26. Esteban OCONAlpine11:17:02

    Esteban OCON: Bass was a bit more loose in some entries, we need to review that, but otherwise I think I didn't pick up any understeer, that's for sure.

    Engineer: OK, copy that.

27. Fernando ALONSOAlpine11:20:47

    Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, the people are blind after summer.

28. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams11:21:55

    Nicholas LATIFI: Level water rate in turn one.

    Engineer: Copy.

29. Charles LECLERCFerrari11:22:30

    Engineer: and we have some some drops at turn one and also turn five

30. Sebastian VETTELAston Martin11:22:51

    Engineer: So there has been reports of some gravel in turn 10 just take care, but not sure where that's come from

31. Esteban OCONAlpine11:25:28

    Esteban OCON: Bit more rain coming up on the visor.

32. Carlos SAINZFerrari11:26:15

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, front tire is putting a lot of stress on the front right now.

33. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes11:27:45

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Sorry, I missed the fifth entry, didn't

    Engineer: want to go over the wrong side of the polar. No problem, no problem, so stay out.

34. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull11:28:08

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, so it is here at

    Engineer: the

    Max VERSTAPPEN: back of the track now.

35. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren11:28:15

    Engineer: Any rain out there?

    Daniel RICCIARDO: I can see it on the visor, but for now just mist.

36. Nikita MAZEPINHaas11:30:38

    Engineer: Nice lap Maz, really nice lap without a toe or box at the end of this lap, box at the end of this lap.

37. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri11:31:56

    Engineer: Obviously don't take any risk, but that could be the condition we face in the race.