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
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Just you and Mick on track at the minute so no traffic threat around
Engineer: So wind very calm, a bit of tailwind into 5.
Engineer: Are you okay? Are you okay?
Yuki TSUNODA: I'm okay.
Engineer: So the accident is at turn 15, it's Tsunoda.
Engineer: What's happened your keys of 1015 exit is okay, but the car is not oh,
Pierre GASLY: yeah
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
Lando NORRIS: How many cars ahead?
Engineer: A lot of them.
Pierre GASLY: I almost took my almost took my front wing out
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: What Manzipin is doing, honestly!
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.
Engineer: OK, we're through. Peak 14. Oh, we're scrapping. Nice
George RUSSELL: one.
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.
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
George RUSSELL: I was derated, now I'm afraid to.
George RUSSELL: I feel more comfortable on this tyre than Macaulay
Engineer: I'm deleted tonight. I'm deleted tonight. Oh
Pierre GASLY: like I was on the line
Sergio PEREZ: Had traffic there with the McLaren he didn't move. Yeah, we saw it
George RUSSELL: So was that a good lap or about where we expect?
Engineer: That's good, that's good.
Engineer: So we are half a second safe at the moment just probably take another lap to cover track evolution
Engineer: Are we good or not? No, we are P11, I'm afraid. I'm just, uh... Why?
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.
Engineer: These tyres look in a good window out of the box so work them nice and hard on the outlap.
Engineer: still a light tailwind into turn two Paris has got 10 second gap ahead
Engineer: So that's provisionally put you P1. Hamilton's just picked you with a 14.4.
Engineer: Checo P3 on a 1465
Max VERSTAPPEN: Alan, my spunt was s**t because of this car
Charles LECLERC: it's going to be difficult understood
Engineer: with the word we can okay
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
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
Engineer: I don't know what happened there. It's just, there's no
Valtteri BOTTAS: hot tub. No grip.
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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