Belgian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
27 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Belgian Grand Prix 2021, across 14 drivers. Lando NORRIS had the most, with 5.
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
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 5 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Let us know how dry it is out there. It's a bit too dry for interest so I'll box. Copy that, so box, box, box.
Lando NORRIS: couple of wet patches but definitely slicks at the moment yeah i just destroyed the destroy the enters like this so definitely slicks okay
Engineer: understood
Pierre GASLY: When I turn in the street like right and left it doesn't feel exactly the same Like it's a bit sharper on one side. I had a bit the same feeling this morning
Engineer: Okay, we will see what we can look at
Engineer: And Lando, other people have spun in turn one, so just out of the pit exit.
George RUSSELL: Brake pedal feeling a bit locked and spongy.
Engineer: Copy that.
Lando NORRIS: You can tell Daniel it's a little bit wet, empty to turn 1 braking and empty to turn 5 braking, everything else is OK. Understood, I'll pass the message.
George RUSSELL: I have cold rear brakes.
Sebastian VETTEL: Locked up into one, let's go to the front left Copy, is that it? See if it gets any better Ok
Engineer: BOTS in P1 on a 44.5, that's an alternative engine mode for him.
Esteban OCON: I lost quite a lot of grip on that lap Copy
Engineer: that
Engineer: I'm going to check over a box at the end of this lap, get onto the soft tyre.
Carlos SAINZ: I have a lot of honest you
Carlos SAINZ: I guess we're boxing. Yeah,
Engineer: if you want to take one more we can otherwise we boxing
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, but we need to change the thing of the car. The car went to worst balance
Engineer: Understood
Nicholas LATIFI: I think if you have time, you should do the MacBell change to see your high fuel.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I have no deployment now again. Yeah, it's a straight
Esteban OCON: Yeah, that's okay. No damage.
Engineer: Yellow.
Esteban OCON: That's okay, no damage.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, that tower's gone.
Engineer: Let's box now please, box now.
Lewis HAMILTON: Got a good vibration on these tyres.
Engineer: OK, copy. Have a look. Looks like front left.
Engineer: Are you ok?
Charles LECLERC: Yeah I am, sorry guys Lost it in the exit of F5
Engineer: Copy
Engineer: Not quite the position I had in mind, apologies about that. Yeah, I was gonna say. You were gonna say something like that. First or second in the queue. Yeah. Nailed it!
Engineer: There's
Lewis HAMILTON: massive traffic here. Can you go past the white line to get out or not?
Engineer: AFM you can cross that if there's a car starting, making a race start.
Yuki TSUNODA: I think the front starts to grind already.
Max VERSTAPPEN: It's finished. OK, copy.
Engineer: Ignition 1 and then 0.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Suddenly lost the rear
Engineer: Copy that
Engineer: Weybridge, Weybridge. Check the Weybridge.
Lando NORRIS: Get out! They're telling me to get out.
Engineer: Yeah, that's okay. Just remember to leave all your stuff on. Pause for five seconds. And then turn it completely off, please.
Engineer: On the bright side, we didn't need the hard again, but yeah.
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