British Grand Prix 2021: Sprint Qualifying team radio
31 radio messages were recorded during sprint qualifying at the British Grand Prix 2021, across 16 drivers. 27 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Front brakes are a bit on the hot side so if we could get some fans in that
George RUSSELL: ASAP
Engineer: So Lewis, track temp now 48.5 and it's just going to steadily drop over the next half hour or so.
Engineer: Okay Mick, competitor tires, everyone around us is on C2, except for Ocon and Alonso are on C3, and Bottas up front is on C3, everyone else C2.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Brakes are okay.
Engineer: Brakes all okay.
Engineer: Tyres all okay, front wings okay, some small end plate damage nothing too serious. Okay to continue
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And Lando, we've reported the weaving to the race director.
Engineer: We have some small floor damage, right hand side, costing a little bit of downforce.
Engineer: Good job Daniel good job
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm giving it everything, we've
Engineer: got any more
Lewis HAMILTON: power?
Engineer: Stand by Lewis, we're looking into it
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Orlando Hiroshi sees front right inboard blistering but no concern
Engineer: Yeah, we can see some blisters on Verstappen's front right
Lewis HAMILTON: Same here, man OK, copy
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I just
Valtteri BOTTAS: have a blister on the front right, it's causing me the vibration, but for now all good.
Engineer: I've just got a warning, let's watch the moving under braking.
Engineer: OK Max, gap 2 Hamilton 3.0, stay off the kerbs on right hand side tyres. OK If you can stay off all exit kerbs, left hand side as well Max, that would also be useful.
Engineer: Okay, check out you can back off we need to retire the car
Engineer: OK Max, that's that, that's pole position.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Good, good job, that was nice.
Engineer: Well done Max, good grid for tomorrow and remember to stay on the track at
Max VERSTAPPEN: the end of the way. Yeah, OK.
Engineer: I'm sorry about that Lewis, so P2, I guess we've got a bit of work on tomorrow.
Engineer: P4 P4 nice job.
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, good job guys
Engineer: Okay mate, good job. Start P5 tomorrow, P5.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, cool. Did a weekend I think. Good job.
Engineer: Yep, good job.
Engineer: So that was a good race mate, well done. We're in a good place for tomorrow, your P6. OK,
Daniel RICCIARDO: gotcha. OK, cool.
Engineer: Nice work mate, that's P7, P7, that was a hell of a first lap mate, awesome job.
Fernando ALONSO: Yes guys, I hope you enjoyed the show, it was nice, nice strategy, good call guys.
Engineer: I
Fernando ALONSO: think we should call it Q4, no? It's nice. Put
Engineer: on a hat if you want.
Engineer: Well done Sebastian, P8, P8.
Sebastian VETTEL: I tried, but couldn't get close enough in the places I had to.
Engineer: Early on he was quite energy, in trouble with energy, but he managed to have it. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, that's what I thought.
Engineer: Anyways,
Sebastian VETTEL: got to the flag.
Engineer: Ok, P9, P9
George RUSSELL: Alright, good job, same again tomorrow? Yep,
Engineer: yeah, more of the same tomorrow
Pierre GASLY: Just driving without any front wing, I don't know what's happening but it's never been as bad
Engineer: How do you like the new format?
Esteban OCON: It's good for us at the moment.
Engineer: It's really nice.
Engineer: I'm P11, P11, good come back, well done, yeah thank you, nice new pick up, guys
Carlos SAINZ: I'm not happy about the start, we
Engineer: talk later, yeah you did everything right so we need to go through
Carlos SAINZ: And here Russell doesn't deserve to finish that race in front of us, he clearly destroyed
Engineer: my race. Yeah, he's under investigation.
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