French Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
42 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the French Grand Prix 2021, across 13 drivers. 40 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN had the most, with 9.
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 · 9 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 5 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Some lumps have appeared in my seat talk later about that. Okay
Engineer: Survives on the dash, targeting zero all round Radio check
Sergio PEREZ: Yes, largely mate Yep,
Engineer: likewise
Engineer: So let's concentrate and do what we need to for tyre temps
Esteban OCON: Left break 10, because I think I have a tear off stuck.
Engineer: Copy that. Can you see a tear off there, Esteban?
Esteban OCON: Yeah.
Engineer: Copy.
Sergio PEREZ: Bit of understeer to start the lap.
Engineer: Bit
Sergio PEREZ: of understeer in the high speed.
Engineer: Copy. The front tyres were a bit on the cold side opening the lap. So for your reference, the front tyres were minus 5 and minus 7 opening that last lap.
Sebastian VETTEL: There's something shooting forward in the cockpit and touched my left foot. Braking for turn 8, so just to remember it.
Lewis HAMILTON: This is a serious queue.
Engineer: So we've got George, he's 20 seconds behind. Turn 11 now. So one second ahead to Alonso. And maybe you want to take a prep lap? Yep.
Engineer: In terms of Overlay to Checo, his lap times are 34.1, you were similar through 3, 4, 5, 6 combination, quicker through 8, 9, but we had substantial losses through 11 and 12.
Engineer: On turn 11, late on 3, we pushed a little bit too hard and we lost on exit. Everywhere else we were faster. On update on tyres, we could push now to be phased. We can push now to be phased.
Pierre GASLY: Ok, let's try.
Engineer: So box max we've got front wing damage
Engineer: OK, VSC, VSC.
Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I can't believe it. We keep going.
Engineer: OK, mate.
Pierre GASLY: Is the wind still the same compared
Engineer: to this morning? Same, very gusty, tailwind 23.
Engineer: OK, Mick, so anything we can help you with, anything you want to try system-side, what's the biggest problem?
Mick SCHUMACHER: I think it's still a bit, turn 1, the entry instability. With the right toggle it is a bit better, then in turn 5 I need a bit more support with the front, it seems like the front is washing out quite a bit, but other than that it's OK.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: okay so single or double that you choose it a
Valtteri BOTTAS: double i'm just losing the straight line
Engineer: Clutch 1% deep. Pedal was good.
Yuki TSUNODA: Can you check the motorway
Engineer: exit? I changed it I think a little bit. Yes, no problem. So turn 7, take it easy on throttle. Take it easy on throttle now.
Engineer: we
Sebastian VETTEL: can also check the floor as i went wide in 2011. yeah we'll have a quick look
Engineer: Yuki, are you happy with the balance? Stroll is coming... Yeah, yeah, yeah, just... Copy, copy.
Engineer: Yeah,
Lewis HAMILTON: something to ride with a car in.
Pierre GASLY: Yes, f*****g club just because of this So
Engineer: only place we lost compared to Ocon, obviously at turn 9 because of the traffic on the upshift and the minimum speed in turn 12
Max VERSTAPPEN: Not too bad Dan.
Engineer: We'll box this lap please Max, box this lap.
Engineer: So far, two cars have improved on second time. Daniel, I think it's worth having another go. You are quick to the exit of turn nine. That bit's very good. We lose three or four tenths in turn 11. It looks like you lifted a little early, which I don't know if that was related to traffic. And then the apex speed is a bit low. Lando is one gear up in that corner. Yep, okay. Lando picking up the throttle earlier, but more progressively to have a higher apex speed.
Engineer: Are you front limited in the last sector as well?
Yuki TSUNODA: Except 10-12, 10-12.
Engineer: Copy. So box-box for a flap adjust, Yuki. Box-box, flap adjust.
Sergio PEREZ: I nearly hit the house
Engineer: And after Bottas you have no one behind, so box, box, practice pit entry, and we would like to do a start on pit exit please. Why
Kimi RAIKKONEN: we don't do more starts in the high field?
Engineer: That's the most representative apparently.
Yuki TSUNODA: The degradation in sector 3 was quite a lot of damage. Copy, box, box.
Max VERSTAPPEN: Do
Engineer: you
Max VERSTAPPEN: have two burnouts or not?
Engineer: Yes please.
Engineer: From that first start, you were just a little bit late on the second release and the total application. Three burnouts.
Engineer: Go mode F1, mode F1 when you can.
Engineer: Okay, clutch was on target throttle pickup was one step more aggressive, but you could still do one step more than that
Engineer: Fail 11, fail. Fail 11, fail.
Engineer: Checo different power mode, Hamilton 37.9, 38.0, 37.9, 38.0.
Engineer: So we've got Gasti within DRS now, watch for him down into Turn 8 and Russell close behind him.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Yeah, but you know I cannot make any clean running if people keep overtaking me like that.
Sergio PEREZ: What is it up behind? So
Engineer: Ricciardo behind, two seconds, one second, then Stroll. It's all quite congested.
Engineer: For the tire, we think turn 11 apex. You can stop it a little bit more. Entry is okay, 11. Just apex, slow the car more. 11.
Engineer: OK, mate, doing a nice job there. Five laps, looking quite strong compared to some of the medium runners. Only Leclerc just gone on hard as well.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I suddenly got caught out there. Just lost a very grip.
Engineer: And I'm going I'm going minus one go
Kimi RAIKKONEN: minus two copy minus three copy
Engineer: And scenario 15, scenario 15.
Yuki TSUNODA: Copy. The radar is kind of OK about getting back.
Engineer: OK.
Engineer: Okay, we think we're about one second safe to complete one more lap after this one more lap after this
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