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Team radio transcript

Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2021: Qualifying team radio

36 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2021, across 16 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. Nikita MAZEPINHaas

    Engineer: Just you and Mick on track at the minute so no traffic threat around

  2. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: So wind very calm, a bit of tailwind into 5.

  3. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri

    Engineer: Are you okay? Are you okay?

    Yuki TSUNODA: I'm okay.

  4. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: So the accident is at turn 15, it's Tsunoda.

  5. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Engineer: What's happened your keys of 1015 exit is okay, but the car is not oh,

    Pierre GASLY: yeah

  6. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: They're all gonna slow down at the end of the lap, so let's take a good margin so I can push

  7. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: How many cars ahead?

    Engineer: A lot of them.

  8. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: I almost took my almost took my front wing out

  9. Antonio GIOVINAZZIAlfa Romeo

    Antonio GIOVINAZZI: What Manzipin is doing, honestly!

  10. Mick SCHUMACHERHaas

    Mick SCHUMACHER: I lost a lot of power in turn 14-15, did you understand that?

    Engineer: Understood, understood, probably just didn't have quite enough front in that last lap, but good work.

    Mick SCHUMACHER: Yeah, but

    Engineer: anyways, I think we managed well. Yep, you managed it well, we all did good, so let's box now and watch the Weybridge lights, watch Weybridge.

  11. George RUSSELLWilliams

    Engineer: OK, we're through. Peak 14. Oh, we're scrapping. Nice

    George RUSSELL: one.

  12. Nikita MAZEPINHaas

    Nikita MAZEPIN: That

    Engineer: should not be the case. Box, Nikita, box, box, Nikita, box. We will double check everything. Yeah,

    Nikita MAZEPIN: I was one and a half tenth slower by the time I got to turn one.

  13. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Nicholas LATIFI: That's

    Engineer: a

    Nicholas LATIFI: good lap guys, that's a good lap and

    Engineer: it is confirmed P12 P12 going to Q2, great job mate, great job

    Nicholas LATIFI: Amazing guys That was close. Thanks guys for getting me out

  14. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: I was derated, now I'm afraid to.

  15. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: I feel more comfortable on this tyre than Macaulay

  16. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Engineer: I'm deleted tonight. I'm deleted tonight. Oh

    Pierre GASLY: like I was on the line

  17. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: Had traffic there with the McLaren he didn't move. Yeah, we saw it

  18. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: So was that a good lap or about where we expect?

    Engineer: That's good, that's good.

  19. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: So we are half a second safe at the moment just probably take another lap to cover track evolution

  20. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Engineer: Are we good or not? No, we are P11, I'm afraid. I'm just, uh... Why?

  21. George RUSSELLWilliams

    Engineer: OK, P12, P12. How close? Tenth and a half. Did

    George RUSSELL: my best, guys.

    Engineer: I thought we were going to sneak that one.

    George RUSSELL: So did I, so did I.

  22. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: These tyres look in a good window out of the box so work them nice and hard on the outlap.

  23. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: still a light tailwind into turn two Paris has got 10 second gap ahead

  24. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: So that's provisionally put you P1. Hamilton's just picked you with a 14.4.

  25. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Checo P3 on a 1465

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Alan, my spunt was s**t because of this car

  26. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: it's going to be difficult understood

    Engineer: with the word we can okay

  27. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay, that's a good lap mate right now your p5 cars are still going green so I'll let you know look after the fuel

  28. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: That's it mate! That is it! Wow! Look at the time!

    Lewis HAMILTON: We got it!

    Engineer: You got it mate! Beautiful work! That's a surprise isn't it?

  29. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Yeah Max, that is P3, Halton didn't improve. I f***ed it up,

    Max VERSTAPPEN: I f***ed

    Engineer: it

    Max VERSTAPPEN: up, I went up and turned 3.

    Engineer: Yeah, hard luck Max, it's mighty close there, it's going to be an interesting race tomorrow.

  30. Lando NORRISMcLaren

    Lando NORRIS: I'm sorry about that. My bad, I'm so sorry.

    Engineer: Okay, we qualified P7. F***. Don't worry mate, the pace is there. I'm sorry.

    Lando NORRIS: Deserve much better. Yeah, it doesn't matter if the pace is there, does it?

  31. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Woo! It's good mate. That feels good. Very good. Holy crap. Yeah. The Rez P2. Verstappen P3. Just four hundredths in it.

    Lewis HAMILTON: That's definitely too close for my liking.

    Engineer: Yeah, and me. Exactly. These grey hairs.

  32. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: Okay mate, P.T. Okay, good improvement guys. We'll get them tomorrow. Well done Sergio, that was a great lap. Well done, good job.

  33. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren

    Engineer: Okay, buddy, we finished piece six there finished piece six good job So the final order is Hamilton Perez Verstappen Leclerc Gasly yourself then Lando Bottas Ocon and Stroll

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah,

    Engineer: good job through qualifying mate good progression through qualifying There's a couple of things we can still work on but the progression through the weekend and through qualifying has been good So we'll keep working on it and we'll take the next step tomorrow

    Daniel RICCIARDO: Appreciate your patience Cheers guys

  34. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Engineer: Okay, Pierre, that's P5. Leclerc 50 milliseconds in front of us. Very good drive this last lap. You put it all together. We like it. Good job, mate. Really happy with that.

    Pierre GASLY: Thanks a lot. Yeah, very happy with the love, honestly. Yeah, it was a bit of a hard work

    Engineer: to get there, but I think we did a decent job today. Good job.

    Pierre GASLY: Yeah, thanks, guys.

  35. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: I don't know what happened there. It's just, there's no

    Valtteri BOTTAS: hot tub. No grip.

  36. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: So we have finished up P10, Stroll half a tenth ahead of us Yeah,

    Esteban OCON: we picked up a bit on the Steady's run, fortunately

    Engineer: More

    Esteban OCON: front limited, not sure why that was, but yeah that was

    Engineer: Ah ok, Stroll's lap time has been deleted, so that puts us P9, so that's good

    Esteban OCON: Ah ok, so

    Engineer: that's good, excellent, well not perfect balance that lap But still a good lap, so well done

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