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Team radio transcript

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

Every message, in the order it happened

  1. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  2. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: The

    Valtteri BOTTAS: brake pedal is terribly soft.

    Engineer: Aether, you should get better.

  3. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: Is the headrest similar because I don't know I can't turn my head inside the cockpit

  4. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Engineer: Okay, that's still P1. P2 Hamilton on a 19.9. You are currently purple in all three.

  5. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    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.

  6. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri

    Engineer: All okay, you okay? Yeah, I'm good.

  7. George RUSSELLWilliams

    George RUSSELL: PY, please check turn 5 on the previous lap for torque overrun off throttle

  8. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    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.

  9. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: I

    Lewis HAMILTON: need another five holes of front wing.

    Engineer: Okay, copy.

  10. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Nicholas LATIFI: Car balance is extremely poor right now the corner understeer is insane

  11. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Is

    Lewis HAMILTON: that just too deep, turn 2?

    Engineer: Sector 1 bore is just the speed opening the lap.

  12. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    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

  13. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Audio only, no transcript available for this message.

  14. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri

    Engineer: And we suggest offset 1 for the next push, we have rear locking.

    Yuki TSUNODA: OK.

  15. Charles LECLERCFerrari

    Charles LECLERC: Ah, I've got traffic every left.

    Engineer: Understood.

  16. Yuki TSUNODAAlphaTauri

    Engineer: All okay, you okay? Stroll is coming for you. Oh, f***ing sorry! Copy.

  17. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Engineer: It is okay, right? Yeah, it is okay. It doesn't look too big.

  18. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: We will need to learn gears again.

  19. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Valtteri BOTTAS: Copy. There's still a lot of others there.

    Engineer: Over. Look at the front left.

  20. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Lewis HAMILTON: Never had the rear right drop like that before Ok,

    Engineer: copy

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