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Team radio transcript

Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio

21 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2021, across 12 drivers. Pierre GASLY 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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Engineer: Signs coming by now. It looks like some people have done a build-up. Some people converted to build-up.

  2. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: Uh, the tires cooled down a bit too much.

    Engineer: Copy.

  3. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Something broke.

    Engineer: I don't know. Box if you can.

  4. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, something snapped on the rear.

    Engineer: Yeah, copy.

  5. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren

    Engineer: Daniel suggests to box this lap for front wing adjust box this lap for front wing adjust. Yep understood

  6. Antonio GIOVINAZZIAlfa Romeo

    Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, I didn't get to transport, you know, for the pit entry.

  7. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: Ok, just need to check the front left of the car, I went over the kerb in turn 5 Copy that, we'll check for you Feels like I probably damaged something

    Engineer: Ok, we'll check, don't worry

  8. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: Tire is just feeling a bit out of bed, not too sure why. Surfers overheating on both axles. Take that back, not surfers overheating. Sliding over the top of a tyre.

  9. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, folks. Mistake last corner.

    Engineer: Okay. It

    Carlos SAINZ: was a good lap.

  10. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Esteban OCON: Got a surge out of tone 7.

    Engineer: Copy that.

  11. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: So Lewis, at time, we're still at P3 with your medium tyre time.

  12. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: How is the pace?

    Engineer: So you are currently splitting the two Mercedes.

    Pierre GASLY: Oh, that's nice.

  13. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren

    Engineer: Daniel that was a really good step in the first complex you made last lap.

    Daniel RICCIARDO: I'd say pretty underwhelming but I'll wait for feedback after.

    Engineer: Sure, so actually the lap time was deleted for track limits turn nine.

  14. Nikita MAZEPINHaas

    Engineer: And then turn nine apex speed two out of five yeah,

    Nikita MAZEPIN: forget it. Let's look what after I don't

    Engineer: need

    Nikita MAZEPIN: to go now

  15. Nikita MAZEPINHaas

    Engineer: can you

    Nikita MAZEPIN: check the car because there's some strange noises happening i have not been off but something

    Engineer: strange is noisy is it any point in particular on throttle or throttle all the time there

    Nikita MAZEPIN: was a big hit on the floor on the freight before last corner understood

  16. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: Start to pick up vibration

  17. Sebastian VETTELAston Martin

    Sebastian VETTEL: OK, I just would like to fill the car with clean

    Engineer: air. Yeah, copy that, so that's Russell coming past now and then set your gap up towards the end of this lap.

  18. Nikita MAZEPINHaas

    Nikita MAZEPIN: I am on ice man, absolutely on ice

  19. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Engineer: Hey, are you okay?

    Charles LECLERC: Yeah, okay. Sorry guys. I was pushing quite a bit

  20. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: Something sounds... weird.

    Engineer: What kind of weird?

    Lando NORRIS: I don't know, just making a weird noise.

    Engineer: OK, from the power unit, from the car?

    Lando NORRIS: Yeah, from the power unit, I think it's gone now. It was just sounding weird as I pulled out the box for like three or four seconds, and then it

    Engineer: sounded normal again. OK, understood.

  21. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Engineer: Yeah, I didn't expect that. I almost crashed into him, so just let me know if you let me pass next time. That wasn't planned, that wasn't planned. Engine 6, position 1. Engine 6, position 1.

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