British Grand Prix 2021: Qualifying team radio
29 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the British Grand Prix 2021, across 13 drivers. 28 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 4.
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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: The wind is similar to previous session, lower intensity, similar to forecast.
Engineer: Okay, so how was the balance?
Fernando ALONSO: Understood.
Sergio PEREZ: I run wide into the final corner, so
Engineer: lost a bit there.
Engineer: Well caught.
Engineer: If you need one for yourself, we can go. If you want one for you to learn about the next session, we can go again.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I'm just thinking maybe we might need it for Q3 now.
Engineer: We may, yes.
Nicholas LATIFI: Was I losing time again in the turn one? The engine was not pulling as much.
Engineer: Copy, I'll let you know, I'll let you know.
Mick SCHUMACHER: I tried my best, but thank you for a good car and obviously the changes we made were positive so thank you
Engineer: for
Mick SCHUMACHER: that too.
Sergio PEREZ: If there are no cars around, it will be good to get a tow.
Engineer: Yeah, we're clear. We're in clear armour fight.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, f***ing traffic It was a shit massacre Yeah, agreed,
Engineer: sorry for that
Fernando ALONSO: Very bad traffic.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that.
Charles LECLERC: I need a slipstream guys
Engineer: Understood And
Charles LECLERC: tell me if he wants this one Tell it to me before so we arrange ourselves
Engineer: Yeah copy
Carlos SAINZ: Quick turn around and let's be one of the first.
Engineer: That's the lap, P7, nice work. Come on! Are we through? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Come
George RUSSELL: on!
Engineer: Yes boys! Oh yes! Focus on Q3 now. Q3 now. Yeah, don't worry boys, I got it, I got it.
Fernando ALONSO: How much for Q3?
Engineer: 200 Easy,
Fernando ALONSO: easy, easy
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, it's been a lot harder than usual but honestly it was a clean lap, it was a really good lap, I'm pleased with that.
Lewis HAMILTON: Let's not give those guys a tone.
Engineer: The wind is similar to previous run.
Carlos SAINZ: It is much calmer ride than the beginning of Kuali.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I have no f***ing front tires to finish her lap, that's insane. I just don't get what's going on. The car is good, but she's understeering to the moon. And it seems like the front wing is doing nothing.
Engineer: Just throw that going wide in 15, check the underside of the floor. Copy that, we will.
Engineer: Get in there Lewis! What a... what a lap man! It's the first one that counted. Get
Lewis HAMILTON: in there!
Engineer: Woo! Yeah, proper Lewis, proper. Yeah, just keep an eye on that delta time. That's a bit more like it, isn't it?
Lewis HAMILTON: Crack it! And you
Engineer: mate, and you.
Engineer: To the grid please Max, to the grid.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Really?
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Sebastian VETTEL: Anyways, good job everyone, the car was good to drive, there was a little bit left. Yep, well done to you mate.
Engineer: Result Lewis for today Big
Lewis HAMILTON: big thanks
Engineer: to
Lewis HAMILTON: all the guys All the amazing hard work to get this car ready for this weekend for the upgrade
Charles LECLERC: Yes, guys Let's go
Engineer: Good job
Charles LECLERC: There was a little bit of a strange noise with the engine going into the pits. We can check Might be nothing just for you to know Anyway, good job guys copy.
Engineer: We will take a look look at that. Thank you and good job
Daniel RICCIARDO: I know, I know it was a good step, but I just lost so much on the straight. It's frustrating.
Engineer: OK Checker, that was P5. The clerk picked us. That lap time got deleted for turn 15. I picked up massive honesty this lap. The
Sergio PEREZ: frames were too cold. Yeah,
Engineer: copy that Checker. We'll review it all.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I guess I'm happy, I don't think, yeah, I could have done a lot more Hopefully just in a better position for the race tomorrow
Engineer: And it's only Friday. Two more races to go. We're in a good place here.
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