Dutch Grand Prix 2021: Race team radio
148 radio messages were recorded during race at the Dutch Grand Prix 2021, across 20 drivers. 146 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 27.
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 · 27 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 21 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 12 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 12 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 12 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 10 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 9 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 8 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Robert KUBICA · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Brakes still still cold
Engineer: This time round, have a look at the handbrake in turn 3. Handbrake, turn 3.
Engineer: okay good job let's drive through nice and steadily then please and two more laps to the grid
Engineer: Consider white button for 10-11. Consider white button for 10-11.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
George RUSSELL: Radio check.
Engineer: Yep, radio check at turn 3, copy.
George RUSSELL: All good from my side, I've got some gravel by my feet if we can check on the grid.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: So surface temp, very representative now
Nicholas LATIFI: Okay, so
Engineer: only other issue is your belts everything else is okay
Nicholas LATIFI: Yeah, just the left-hand side mirror. We still have to adjust Copy, left-hand side mirror to adjust It's
Engineer: a
Nicholas LATIFI: bit too low, let's do that now Yeah Down in the car, if we could
Carlos SAINZ: So, Ricky, I was thinking, the flap for the hard, I would go 0.3 down on the tyre, instead of 0.2. Sorry, repeat, we were talking on the other channel, you would go down 0.3 for the hard. Yeah, for the hard, yeah. That's good. So, 0.2 for the... 0
Engineer: .1
Carlos SAINZ: for the medium, 0.3 for the hard, I would say. Yeah, makes sense to me. What do you think? Yeah, makes sense.
Engineer: It tells track conditions should remain stable during the whole race, track temperature and wind.
Engineer: And now in case you want a reference, your front tires are borderline illegal, you are on top of the white line a bit in front of it.
Engineer: Lance, just don't go too crazy on brakes in sector 3, information log.
Lance STROLL: Copy.
Engineer: Okay mate, a mix of tyres out of the top 10. On mediums, Russell from P11, Kubica from P16 and P18, P19 with Mazepan and Latifi. On soft, Stroll in front of you, just behind you, Sunoda and Vettel on soft as well with the Sumaker. And Perez is sitting in the garage with the heart on.
Engineer: Ok, so 2 minutes to go, so once more the reminder, so once the engine is fired up, there will be pit speed limiter on, first gear start for the formation lap, keep pit speed limiter until pole position, work the rears on the formation lap, coming out of the last corner will be recharge off, then 3 burnouts from the DRS line.
Fernando ALONSO: Yep, no problem, let's see what we get.
George RUSSELL: Ricardo waving his arm
Engineer: Just display 8 when you can. Display 8 when you can.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: We
Engineer: checking Antonio, we checking.
Mick SCHUMACHER: Is everything okay with the car?
Engineer: Yeah, we're okay for now. Let's go to diff 23, diff 23.
George RUSSELL: Ricardo is smoking and dropping oil
Engineer: So Antonio data looking or keep pushing data looking okay
Engineer: Let's push it. Okay, copy.
Engineer: Suggest stretch 7, stretch 7.
Engineer: And Perez got past Mick, so Perez 1.3 behind.
Engineer: Okay, just watch Turn 9 exit, giving the Rears a hard time there.
Engineer: Besides, we're going to
Lewis HAMILTON: struggle to keep this place.
Esteban OCON: Thunder is extremely slow in front
Engineer: Just played a long game
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: OK, got asteron 0.7 behind.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, but I don't want to get close to signs.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Lance STROLL: Rears are overheating, very hard to follow.
Engineer: Copy that, the rears are going up now, rears are reaching peaks.
Engineer: Okay, checko. Vibration's too high. We had to pit. So that's a long way to go. Still points to be had.
Engineer: OK Max, Hamilton potentially switching to a two stop, looks like he's been given the hurry up, last lap at 14.7, gap at 2.8.
Engineer: So there's a long way to go. Still points to be had.
Engineer: 4th and 8th was a bit too high energy, mid corner for info, charge level 10-16-7
Engineer: Max, can I have a front wing update when you can please? Front wing update when you can. Yeah, I do OK. Understood.
Engineer: Vettel has just pitted, he was two cars behind us.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, you'll be able to go miles faster, like three seconds, two seconds quicker in clean air than this.
Engineer: And gap 5.1 behind, 3.0 ahead, Verstappen a 15.2.
Engineer: So nothing changes, Checo. We go long.
Engineer: Okay Lando, so we still think plan B, be patient, our time will come.
Engineer: Overtaking looks as we expected. Can we get to plan A?
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK, I'll keep you posted.
Engineer: Still
Daniel RICCIARDO: has potential, but a bit early.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: So think about B-Bell 4 or the push toggle. B-Bell 4 or the push toggle, turn 11.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I'm already doing that.
Engineer: Gap at 0.8, still on plan A. Oh, brakes.
George RUSSELL: Tires are OK, just managing. Copy.
Engineer: Brakes are fine. You can go forwards 1% if you need. And a mid-17 is good pace if we can maintain this, mid-17.
George RUSSELL: Deceleration feels awful when I go 59.
Engineer: Gap at 0.9, you can go rearwards on the brakes.
Engineer: And we have menu dash position six when you can. And... Repeat, man! Dash position six. Dash six.
Fernando ALONSO: Are the tyres stabilised?
Engineer: Yeah, temperatures are stabilised and are slowly dropping.
Fernando ALONSO: Copy.
Engineer: Okay Valtteri, so at this pace we're not going to interact with the leaders.
Charles LECLERC: I have quite a bit of space in the pocket.
Engineer: Understood.
Charles LECLERC: Guide me. Around five tenths. Five tenths.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: We have Vettel two seconds back. He is for position. Behind Vettel is for Stappen, two behind, and that is for blue. So Vettel will soon get a blue.
Engineer: And gap to Verstappen at 3.7, the last lap at 15.3. Repeat, man, repeat!
Engineer: Ok, and how is the balance?
Fernando ALONSO: Start to be a little bit oversteering on exits.
Engineer: Ok, understood.
Engineer: Okay, that's another good lap time to find though turn one a couple of tenths could be an earlier apex
Engineer: and Hamilton just pit it for medium
Sergio PEREZ: What's the pace of the leaders?
Engineer: Few pistols going on, I'll get back to you.
Engineer: Hamilton at three seconds
Max VERSTAPPEN: same tires
Engineer: so just bring these in nicely
Engineer: So you're doing a good job Lewis, this is all part of the plan.
Engineer: OK Lando, Hamilton and Verstappen have pitted, Bottas is still out, gap to him is 20, pace 10, pace 10.
Engineer: Daniel can you do plan a target lap?
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yes, yep.
Engineer: Copy, thank you.
Engineer: Last set was rear left limited, rear left, as expected.
Engineer: Box-box-box-box-box-box. Torquan in the pitlane.
Engineer: So Blues Mazepin and Vettel again
Valtteri BOTTAS: The tyres are definitely dropping a bit more, but I guess they will do a few laps.
Engineer: Lance, you just need to press the OK button, OK button.
Lance STROLL: I pressed it!
Engineer: You're pressing the pick confirm button.
Lance STROLL: The pick confirm button is the OK button, Brad.
Engineer: OK, so Bottas in free air, 15.8, 15.8, he is the car ahead. It's going to be absolutely critical to catch and pass if we can.
Engineer: That's good really suffering with rears that's good now
Max VERSTAPPEN: How much did I gain last lap?
Engineer: 1.2, 1.2.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, so just the rear. Just can't commit at the high speed at entries.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: So this is for the right swing, so you're defending. I'll leave you to it.
Engineer: If and when the opportunity arises, the overtake button is available. Overtake button is available.
Engineer: That's mega, let's go
Engineer: No surprises Hamilton is the car behind
Engineer: Okay, we box this lap, box this lap. Use overtake, exit of 13. You will need to use the left-hand clutch paddle in the stop. Left-hand clutch paddle. Box now, box now. Okay, box.
Engineer: He's
Lewis HAMILTON: getting super lucky with traffic, man.
Engineer: Okay, so you are on medium to the end.
Charles LECLERC: Wheels are starting to go.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: So don't need to kill the tires but we need to close to his window
Engineer: How are the tires?
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, oversteer but we can keep going. We will benefit later on.
Engineer: OK, understood. I
Fernando ALONSO: don't know how much margin we had with Richard and Steven.
Engineer: We got a little bit of margin but let's pick up the pace now.
Engineer: Hamilton last lap, 14.5, gap 1.7.
Engineer: Another update, Giovinazzi had a puncture, Russell has a five second penalty, we think pit loss is plus one, plus one.
Engineer: So we've got Verstappen and then one and a half is Hamilton.
Daniel RICCIARDO: It's okay Daniel how's this tire any suggestions for Lando? It's okay Just slow to get going more on the front Copy, thank you
Engineer: OK, everything we've got for the next four or five laps, please, Max.
Engineer: So we've got Perez ahead, it won't be long Lewis.
Engineer: So the car behind is Alonso. You're racing him. He's on four lap hold mediums doing 15.6.
Engineer: Keep this pace up, Max. This is mega. Got track position over Bottas as well.
Engineer: You've had great pace, great pace. Keep pushing.
Engineer: Okay, Hamilton is in this lap. His in-lap was pretty slow, 4 tenths in sector 2. Keep up the pace, Max. You've had great pace. Great pace.
Lewis HAMILTON: Why would you pit me with these guys, huh?
Lando NORRIS: 10 seconds getting risky.
Engineer: Okay, understood if we can do two more that's good. No risk.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Did the hardtail look good for other people?
Engineer: Looks like a reasonable tyre on the Ferrari, yes.
Engineer: OK, so for info Verstappen and Hamilton have boxed again, in a great position, the two cars in front of you still need to stop, currently P9.
Fernando ALONSO: OK, so the leaders they need to come through again, not a problem? Not a problem. Because obviously they make us lose so much, so I don't know if there is any threat.
Engineer: Your middle sector on and out lap part was two tenths faster than Hamilton.
Lewis HAMILTON: You don't seem to be in a lot of issues.
Engineer: You told them a lot too soon, man.
Lewis HAMILTON: It's
Engineer: a
Lewis HAMILTON: damn long way to go on this tire, man.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, Lewis. We'll be monitoring it.
Engineer: Just need to bring these home now, Max.
George RUSSELL: Yes, we've got a car in front of me, but only so far as I can go and he's backing me up. Yeah, he can. Talk to me on the straights.
Lewis HAMILTON: There's still so much life left on that last tyre, I don't know why you rushed it.
Engineer: Copy Lewis, we'll chat about it later.
Esteban OCON: I have a plastic bag in my front left brake. Have a look.
Engineer: OK Lando, stay with Daniel, we're going to see what the pace is like.
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I mean I'm much quicker than him at the moment. My tyres are a lot fresher.
Lewis HAMILTON: I'm not gonna make it to the end on these tires.
Engineer: So we are P12, Stroll one second back and Tsunoda P14 is six seconds back with our five second time penalty
George RUSSELL: How are we P12?
Engineer: Are
George RUSSELL: we fighting anyone or is this our race now?
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, it's gonna be a long race these blue flags they are hurting us a lot
Engineer: Yeah, this should be the last one
Yuki TSUNODA: No power and
Engineer: we need to retire stop in front of the garage
Engineer: So Vicky Oddo's last lap was a 15-3. Took two seconds out of him.
Lewis HAMILTON: They're just so fun
Lewis HAMILTON: Killing my tires time to keep up
Engineer: Okay, copy standby
Engineer: Ok mate, 20 laps to go, Ocon 3.3
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, I can see the gap, I don't need any more comps
Engineer: It's up to Perez one second. Let's try and hold him up. Yeah, let's go Daniel. Let's go. You're gonna hold Perez up here
Engineer: OK Lewis, updated priority now, so we'll try and get to the end of the race on these tyres and then we'll take something at the end for fastest lap So
Lewis HAMILTON: don't race! I'll push it to close this gap man, come on!
Engineer: OK copy that Lewis, yeah we're happy with what you're doing then, so let's just crack on
Engineer: And for Norris last lap was a 15.0. Which
Fernando ALONSO: tyres he has!
Engineer: 11 lap old, hards.
Engineer: SCUM!
Sergio PEREZ: Who's next?
Engineer: Is
Lewis HAMILTON: that a power cut? 3-7.
Engineer: Copy, having a look. So nothing to worry about on the P.E.
Engineer: Leclerc is doing 14.9, as long as we are three tenths slower no more we are okay So 15.1 is a good target and it's also good for tires. 15.1, 15.1 is a good target
Engineer: Deficits to Hamilton on the last lap were turns 1 apex and 3 entry apex.
Engineer: Okay, turn one braking was on the limit at the bite. Turn one braking was on the limit at the bite. You don't need to brake hard on that. It's a good lap though.
Engineer: These
Lewis HAMILTON: tires are starting to drop off man.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Engineer: fuel,
Fernando ALONSO: anything to worry?
Engineer: Nothing to worry at this stage, all good.
Fernando ALONSO: Tires stabilized I guess?
Engineer: Yeah, tires are stabilized, front left went up a little bit the last few laps but stable now. Okay so just looking ahead you might be managing but Sainz one second a lap slower than you, gap is eight seconds and we still got 13 laps to go.
Fernando ALONSO: Okay interesting.
Engineer: Gap at 3.8, 3.8.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Is he complaining about something or what?
Engineer: I think his tyres are done.
Carlos SAINZ: What the hell is what does great I live in Miami? That's wonderful
Engineer: And a reminder of the traffic effects on the tires so we'll need to keep looking after them
Engineer: Battery is full
George RUSSELL: The deployment field is all over the place. Go mode 6.
Engineer: Could be gravel around turn one, you've got three cars going through it before you, but just take care on your first way through.
Sergio PEREZ: That was not very fair.
Engineer: Okay, Valtteri, so box, box, box.
Engineer: So you're on the soft, we're going to plus one, we're not going for fastest, why
Valtteri BOTTAS: not, so
Engineer: Lewis will have a free stop at the end.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Who did it? From Mercedes?
Engineer: Bortez.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Why didn't we stop then?
Engineer: Precautionary for tower vibrations.
Engineer: Valtteri, it's James. Please abort the fastest lap attempt before the end of the lap.
Engineer: I need
Lewis HAMILTON: that extra point guys copy
Engineer: we're on it okay this box box
Engineer: OK Max, bring this home now, two laps to go, Hamilton is in for fastest lap attempt. We bring this home, two laps, enjoy them.
Engineer: But that is a really, really mature drive, and what a present to your fans, praise to you. Well done mate, that was epic, that was epic, you've won your home race, you were brilliant today, enjoy this lap and enjoy the podium.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Thank you very much guys, amazing strategy, we were really, really sharp today. And nice pushing 72 laps there, I love it, great job guys.
Lewis HAMILTON: Well guys they were just too fast this weekend and today I gave it absolutely everything but thank you so much for all the hard work as always. No
Engineer: thanks Lewis yeah we knew you'd give it your all but yeah great drive and we're going to be bouncing back in Monza double hard.
Engineer: So P5, P5, you've done a really good job, really good job.
Charles LECLERC: Ah, yeah, I mean, I gave it everything.
Engineer: I
Charles LECLERC: think pace was strong, just...
Engineer: I
Charles LECLERC: thought with the medium the PR would degrade a bit more, but they managed the tyre square as well, so... But yeah, good pace and good feeling overall.
Engineer: Really the critical part of that race mate was coming up to Bottas and you dispatched with him with ease. We were worried about Lewis being able to undercut you at that point so that's fantastic.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah they threw it all at us but great job.
Engineer: You had everything in your armory.
Engineer: Checkered flag Mick checkered flag tough race Mick way to get it to the end look like it was tricky to drive. See you soon
Mick SCHUMACHER: Copy
Engineer: Okay, that's it mate, we made it, we made it. Nice
Pierre GASLY: job, nice job. Yes, very happy guys, very happy. Fantastic job all weekend. Very good job, one of our best races, one of our best races, the car was really flying. Very good day, very good day. I don't know what to say, I'm just really happy. This video was great, today was really good as well, so congrats for the strategy and thanks for the car and next one is Monza. Yeah, and we know what we've got to do there.
Engineer: George, we've got a gearbox issue, have a gearbox issue, I'll need to box this lap, box, box We've got three seconds back to Sainz, three seconds back to Sainz, then Alonso, then Perez
George RUSSELL: Do you want to slow me lap or is normal?
Engineer: Just watch the mirrors now, you've got four cars close by
George RUSSELL: Yeah stop for me here. Okay that's fine, that's fine
Engineer: I guess we'll stop at one. There is some orange fog. Hey, Firm, watch out with the orange fog. Yes, yes, yes, yes! Nice one, mate. Nice one. P6, P6. Awesome job, mate. Awesome race. Yes, guys. It was quite boring until now. We deserve it. As usual, every point we gain, we earn it on track. I'm proud of you guys. Nice work, mate. Thank you very much.
Engineer: OK, that's a checkered flag, checkered flag, so you go in, and pick up rubber, pick up rubber Tough day mate, tough day, we knew it was not going to be easy, tough day Some up and downs in the race, tough day
Nicholas LATIFI: Just went south, nothing I could do there
Engineer: Yeah, copy, it really killed us when we got all these blue flags and we got past the loose temperature Yeah, we cannot follow anybody Yeah, understood, understood So you know the drill, you go in, pick up the rubber Back in the pit lane, on the park come in, switch off the car fully and you go away to yourself
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, we need to have a look at what happened there. I had no pace.
Engineer: Yeah, understood. We need a good look into it.
Carlos SAINZ: More tire wear and less pace. I don't know why.
Engineer: That's it for bad checkered flag checkered flag be 15 well done well done great job very clean race So good overtake, so I hope you enjoyed
Robert KUBICA: Copy thank you very much. Yeah, not easy, but At least since 2010 I had a car which I can fight something So yeah, but it's such a long break. Thank you very much
Engineer: Thank you guys, thank you Robert so Verstappen won as you can hear and smell and Hamilton and Bottas on the podium grande Robert
Sergio PEREZ: P8 Chaco, P8.
Engineer: It's a
Sergio PEREZ: great recovery. Shame there, we didn't get the last two.
Engineer: Great drive, great drive, well done.
Sergio PEREZ: Sorry for the weekend guys.
Engineer: I'll
Sergio PEREZ: swear that we will come back very soon. Well done for Max, well done for Daman.
Engineer: Loslap, Loslap,
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Oslap,
Engineer: Waterfowl, Waterfowl, Antonio.
Sergio PEREZ: Well, it was a crazy race, starting from the first lap incident with Nikita. I flat-fledged my tyres, I had to do a very early stop, but then it worked out fine. In the end, I just didn't get the Spanish guys ahead of me. I was shot by two laps, but anyway, very happy for Max and the team.
Engineer: And just tell me what it's like driving around the circuit right now. It looks incredible.
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, the atmosphere is unreal. These guys are unbelievable, they've been partying for the last three days, non-stop. Well done to them.
Engineer: Well well done to you, congratulations, you are driver of the day.
Engineer: OK, so I can check the flag, check the flag. That was really strong pace at the end. Really strong pace. Well, it
Sebastian VETTEL: was the only time we had a clear track. What a messed up race, I'm sorry. It was so difficult to get past, I tried. Yeah. Yeah, it was only the last stint that I could really have some laps.
Engineer: Yeah, I mean, you're pretty well the fastest car on the track for that whole final stint with the clear out. We'll go through it all, well done. Just take the pick up on the way in, please take the pick up. So that's just the staff in the head who won the race? I
Sebastian VETTEL: struggled really to get past on the first stint and mostly second with the cars, only till the end when the car switched on and I got into the rhythm, it felt a lot better and easier to follow. Yeah. Yeah, copy that.
Esteban OCON: Good points for the team, this was a strong weekend Yeah, I have some areas that I saw this race that we can work on Yeah,
Engineer: plenty to keep improving on, we can keep pushing on, but yeah, good good solid weekend all in all, so well done onwards and upwards
Engineer: checkered flag checkered flag p12 Lance p12 get some pickup on the tire on the way in pick up on the time
Lando NORRIS: yeah I don't know I should have been able to hold him off I just struggled a lot as soon as we doing some of the Leica and stuff but anyway good job at least a point I think so more than nothing
Engineer: yeah the pace was strong then
Engineer: okay Daniel well done mate that's p11 I'm afraid can I have ACS off ACS off that was a big thing to do for the team though and it's much appreciated you drove well mate well done where
Daniel RICCIARDO: did Lando finish?
Engineer: Lando was 10th in the end he got passed by Perez
Daniel RICCIARDO: okay understood all right yeah I'll give feedback after yeah yeah all I had yeah
Engineer: his pace was good Daniel the last 15 laps your pace was the same as Lando on 12 13 lap older tires so pace was good Monza
Daniel RICCIARDO: mate
Engineer: Monza mate that one it's gonna be good I think there's a lot promise from Monza
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