Hungarian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 1 team radio
20 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2021, across 10 drivers. 18 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Lewis HAMILTON 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
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: The
Valtteri BOTTAS: brake pedal is terribly soft.
Engineer: Aether, you should get better.
Pierre GASLY: Is the headrest similar because I don't know I can't turn my head inside the cockpit
Engineer: Okay, that's still P1. P2 Hamilton on a 19.9. You are currently purple in all three.
Engineer: OK, do you want to come in for a balance adjustment?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Not really, I mean the balance is good. It's just these tyres have quite low grip.
Engineer: All okay, you okay? Yeah, I'm good.
George RUSSELL: PY, please check turn 5 on the previous lap for torque overrun off throttle
Engineer: Valtteri's just completed his lap, 17.6, he was having rear overheating towards the end of the lap, so just think about how you're managing it.
Engineer: I
Lewis HAMILTON: need another five holes of front wing.
Engineer: Okay, copy.
Nicholas LATIFI: Car balance is extremely poor right now the corner understeer is insane
Engineer: Is
Lewis HAMILTON: that just too deep, turn 2?
Engineer: Sector 1 bore is just the speed opening the lap.
Engineer: I
Sergio PEREZ: think we we've got more front end but yeah still I think we brought some instability with it
Engineer: okay copy that
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And we suggest offset 1 for the next push, we have rear locking.
Yuki TSUNODA: OK.
Charles LECLERC: Ah, I've got traffic every left.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: All okay, you okay? Stroll is coming for you. Oh, f***ing sorry! Copy.
Engineer: It is okay, right? Yeah, it is okay. It doesn't look too big.
Engineer: We will need to learn gears again.
Valtteri BOTTAS: Copy. There's still a lot of others there.
Engineer: Over. Look at the front left.
Lewis HAMILTON: Never had the rear right drop like that before Ok,
Engineer: copy
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