British Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
35 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the British Grand Prix 2021, across 14 drivers. 31 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Valtteri BOTTAS 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
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 4 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 4 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I
Carlos SAINZ: have a lot of air coming into the helmet, into my eyes, it's not a limitation but for the next session.
Engineer: How's aero balance?
Lance STROLL: Yeah, it feels a little bit too much
Engineer: Other cars around are on mid fuel. We believe other cars around on mid fuel
George RUSSELL: Better pull in from the brakes
Engineer: It
George RUSSELL: seems a little bit gustier today, the flags are moving around.
Esteban OCON: I'm struggling a bit entry of 13, cause a bit loose through there
Engineer: Let's just watch the exit kerb of turn 15.
Engineer: How's the balance?
Sergio PEREZ: It's changing quite a bit. Very intense to be on the nervous side with the wind.
Engineer: So possible damage on a rear deflector. I've not
Valtteri BOTTAS: been on the kerbs.
Engineer: And Lewis, caution exit kerb turn 9, Valtteri may have picked up a bit of damage on lower deflector.
Sergio PEREZ: I run out of energy, no energy now
Lance STROLL: Just losing rear grip Just lose
Engineer: Copy that Lance
Engineer: so we might have a tear off on the rear left corner so the pit stop we're going to hold you and try to fish it out so don't go on the rev straight away
Engineer: So Outlap critical
Pierre GASLY: The wind feels quite inconsistent, I don't know what you see, but...
Engineer: Yes, confirm this lap 15 kph, a bit higher this lap.
Engineer: And it was one of your Taros stuck in the deflector.
Nikita MAZEPIN: 30 isn't starting to go
Pierre GASLY: Guys, we can't see the lights. I can't see the damn lights, so we need to put it lower. Copy that, that's good, we practiced it.
Engineer: Do
Lewis HAMILTON: we really need to keep pushing this engine, or are there safe laps?
Engineer: Yeah, copy Lewis, this is all good information for us, we're happy with the PU in this mode.
Engineer: Consider moving the lift in turn nine very slightly earlier. Earlier lift turn nine.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Give me feedback on tyres and balance.
George RUSSELL: Just sliding around a bit at the moment. Apparently more rear limited, rear surface over engine limited than anything.
Lewis HAMILTON: We really need to keep pushing this engine for the safe laps.
Engineer: Try to combine more turn 15, try to carry more speed and also focus second part of Shikeng.
Yuki TSUNODA: Turn 4 understeer is a disaster, mid-rotation, that makes everything front-wristering, I think.
Engineer: OK Max, plan 4, 6 time lats at this stage, 6 time lats, could be 7.
Engineer: Can you give us a balance and tyre update?
Fernando ALONSO: Oversteer!
Engineer: I
Nikita MAZEPIN: had an engine bug down at last corner last time.
Esteban OCON: I think I had some front right blister.
Engineer: Copy that.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Yeah, I think that was a good indication of my limitations
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Esteban OCON: Maybe a bit too much understeer to start with But yeah, that was good towards the end, so
George RUSSELL: Tell Nicky to put his toe down
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