French Grand Prix 2021: Practice 1 team radio
34 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the French Grand Prix 2021, across 15 drivers. 33 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Sergio PEREZ 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
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 1 message
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: I to don't, Ving turn 12, no, Ving turn 12 and brake release turn 15
Engineer: We suggest red button for the end of the lap, so from turn 11 until the end of the lap use red button.
Engineer: And opportunity, turn 2, exit, Ocon, timelapse 10.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Salute you.
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, I'm stuck in neutral
Engineer: How are the tyres now, Lance? Is it worth us doing another double? Yeah, struggling in the last sector. Copy that. Is it worth another double call and a push or should we come back in now?
Lance STROLL: I think we can come back in.
Engineer: Copy that. Box this lap.
Engineer: That was a decent step in turn five, but we still need a bit more the Lando is slower out of Four probably setting up five more and then he's able to carry more minimum speed and pick up power earlier
Nikita MAZEPIN: Can we discuss the shoulder belts please note?
Engineer: Yes, I'm making a
Engineer: So the car's ahead, Hamilton will push next lap, Ocon may box or push next lap as well.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Copy, update on condition to the compared time tabs right now.
Engineer: Rears, two degrees a bit cool, front right a little bit hot, front left good.
Carlos SAINZ: let me know what the people on soft laptop compared to hide
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, I lost the car. I need to box the stairs so I'm finished.
Carlos SAINZ: I guess we need to think about what do we do, whether we do
Engineer: a
Carlos SAINZ: hard, short run or high fuel. Yeah, we are having a think, we can talk in the garage, we check the car and then we prefer to go. Yeah, sorry for this.
Engineer: No
Carlos SAINZ: worries.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, it's made the same problem again. The front axle does not want to turn. They give up immediately.
Engineer: OK, let me know if you want to box for a front wing adjustment.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, it's not the front wing.
Charles LECLERC: I'm really struggling with the car actually.
Engineer: Ok, shape 5 for the cool down Shape 5 for the cool down And the help shift was due to the very large wheel spin on rev limiter We had a very big wheel spin, rev limiter, so the help shift didn't work for us
Max VERSTAPPEN: I think the floor is s**t.
Engineer: And how was the balance?
Fernando ALONSO: Quite bad. Very understeery now. I'm with the same oversteer.
Engineer: So no DRS on the outlap, no DRS, but nice and strong through the corners.
Esteban OCON: There is more bottoming, I don't know if that's normal, but there is.
Engineer: OK, copy that. Do you have a feeling on this change whether you'd like to revert for the next run?
Esteban OCON: Yes, we have reverted.
Engineer: Copy that. We'll get into that as soon as the car comes in.
Engineer: Okay, so turn 11 breaking point is good. We just need to put less pressure So 5 to 10 bar less pressure, rest is fine How was the balance for you?
Yuki TSUNODA: Sorry, where is that turn 10 to enable?
Engineer: Turn 11, turn 11
Yuki TSUNODA: Turn 11 is okay, I'll just do it by myself, it's okay.
Engineer: Copy copy
Engineer: And we suggest to upshift 8 gears later into turn 10
Engineer: Brake balance for the box and out lap critical
Engineer: OK, Checo, what flap adjust would you like? Minus
Sergio PEREZ: 2, try
Engineer: to calm down a bit the car. OK, copy.
Engineer: So Daniel here the plan is to do one timed lap if the lap time Delta is positive by a long way we can abort at the exit of turn 12 and I just come into the pits so we can do an aborted timed lap as long as you complete turn 12 Obviously if the Delta's good looking good. I'm happy for you to complete it
Engineer: OK, first laps for Mercedes. So Bottas high fuel hard tyre, 38.8. Hamilton soft tyre, 38.9.
Sergio PEREZ: A lot of movement into sector 1 from the rear, the rear very weak into sector 1.
Engineer: Ok, so let's back the pace out again. You started that last lap plus 11, plus 12 on the rear, so we can really slow it down on this charge lap.
Engineer: Okay, so just looking at sector times, there's the best part of 2.5 tenths to Fernando, sector 2, so that's the place to find. Sainz behind High Fuel, 2 seconds, and Bottas close behind him, Bottas also High Fuel.
Engineer: How is the balance?
Nikita MAZEPIN: The rears are going.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I couldn't make those bollards.
Engineer: Yeah, understood.
Sergio PEREZ: Why do you think that we are so weak on the soft, which is still too hot? This time was better for the first sector, but then it gets hot at the end.
Engineer: OK copy, so you were plus 10 and plus 7 on the V, opening like that.
Sergio PEREZ: Why do you think that we are so weak on the soft, which is still too hot, this time was better for the first sector, but then it gets hot at the end.
Engineer: Ok copy, so you were plus ten and plus seven on the way, opening like that.
Engineer: And Strat 7, please, Strat 7. That's the chequered flag, so we can have a pushing in-lap. Suggest green F5, green F5, orange E1, orange E1.
Engineer: Good pace there Valtteri
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