British Grand Prix 2021: Practice 1 team radio
27 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the British Grand Prix 2021, across 14 drivers. 25 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, not severe
Engineer: Okay, just continue finish the lap please max it's all learning at this stage just finish the lap, doesn't matter about the lap time
Sergio PEREZ: We just need labs, so let's get ready to go back again.
Engineer: Copy, we're going to stay onto the medium.
Esteban OCON: Quite a big shift of balance in that lap
George RUSSELL: Rear right seems awfully cold, kick it out please.
Engineer: I think rear right is a sensor, the pressures are the same across cars, cross axle.
Engineer: Okay, who is in front? That was Gasly, in your way. Okay, good to know. Okay.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, what the f*** is that? No power out of the last two corners.
Engineer: We saw that as well at the exit of 17.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, can you fix it though?
Engineer: And it will be engine 9, position 9.
Engineer: I'm
George RUSSELL: still really struggling with this rear end stability. High speed.
Engineer: Just look after this tyre set please as well, look after the tyres on the way in, but keep up the pace.
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: had
Engineer: a
George RUSSELL: wind drop, because I didn't flip it for the lap.
Engineer: and we have tailwind into turn 11 10 kph
Engineer: Tell me. Three seconds.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Now two. You cannot cap three seconds when it's six seconds away. You have to tell me all the time, okay? Okay.
Lewis HAMILTON: Listless, front right.
Engineer: Copy.
Carlos SAINZ: It was quite dangerous with your Nazi there yeah,
Engineer: I saw that yeah, he didn't let you buy
Carlos SAINZ: Check the car loads after turn 15, because I went through the curb and I got quite a big hit.
Carlos SAINZ: Check the vibrations, but they feel good at the end of the brakes
Lewis HAMILTON: Bit of a vibration on these tyres.
Engineer: OK, copy.
Engineer: So currently P3, we've got Verstappen at P1, 7 tenths.
Lewis HAMILTON: 7 tenths? Where does that come from?
Engineer: So we'll just stay in this standard PU mode
Lewis HAMILTON: 7 tenths, where does that come from?
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Charles LECLERC: I took a lot of s**t on the tires, first quite a bad position on track
Engineer: Copy, sorry about that
Fernando ALONSO: I mean, the same as before, understeer in random places.
Lance STROLL: I just have no confidence right now.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I don't know why we were struggling so much
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, I'm not sure if the launch map was activated, it says it's on but it didn't feel like it.
Engineer: Copy, we'll check and we'll box this lap.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Just one thing for the pit stop, our little sign, the Red Bull sign on the pit wall side, is turned around, so it's
Engineer: a
Max VERSTAPPEN: bit difficult to judge where our pit lane is.
Engineer: OK, copy that.
Nicholas LATIFI: right from the first out lap. I was getting a vibration through the front axle every time under braking.
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