Hungarian Grand Prix 2021: Qualifying team radio
38 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2021, across 17 drivers. 37 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. 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
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 1 message
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And synchronize all the gears, focus on tires and brakes, target is zero at the front, zero at the rear. Copy.
Engineer: And we have a tailwind into two that's slightly stronger than this morning. So similar wind direction but slightly stronger.
Engineer: and you have a kind of a tailwind on turn 11
Carlos SAINZ: Oh my god. Guys, come on. I did the best I could to get out of it.
Engineer: How is the balance? Anything we can help you with?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, front is more on the edge now
Nicholas LATIFI: I'm still getting a lot of engine cuts understood focus on brakes
George RUSSELL: Sorry guys, it's going to get a car working. Sorry.
Engineer: B-16, Noyuki. Box, box.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, I'm in no grip. Yeah, just that's
Engineer: all.
Nicholas LATIFI: The cutting on this lap was so much. I lost so much time from the cutting. This is something new. I'm not doing anything wrong here.
George RUSSELL: We can't get it right every time, guys. On to tomorrow.
Nikita MAZEPIN: So yeah, good job on your side, mate. Yeah, man. Very strange. I had so much on this here, this run, compared to the last one.
Engineer: We need to sync the gears please so they don't expire we don't we want to make sure they don't expire sync the gears
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, struggle with more traction, one and two.
Engineer: Yeah,
Carlos SAINZ: I crashed. Sorry, guys.
Charles LECLERC: The car was quite trickier compared to the previous session, a bit more obvious here.
Carlos SAINZ: Reverse is not going in, I don't know why.
Engineer: Daniel, we're P11. Vettel has out-qualified us by 80 milliseconds. Start P11 tomorrow. Okay.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Alright.
Engineer: Fuck.
Engineer: Your best folly so long time, so let's be happy. We did a good job
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Now the wrong last race was the best for me
Engineer: Got a few cars a session now so we shouldn't have the queuing issue at the last corner.
Engineer: Yeah, less grip, I don't know what's happened. So turn 1, 2, we had more wind and we can see a loss on a bit more sliding. We overheat a bit more the tyres due to the wind.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I don't know why, but just a massive lack of grip on this set.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Okay, how was the balance?
Fernando ALONSO: It was okay, just more rear locking, more rear overheating, so yeah, I think we can do probably push a little bit less.
Charles LECLERC: But the track is changing a lot with the wind intensity.
Engineer: Nice work Lewis. Sorry
Lewis HAMILTON: about that, no more grip on that lap.
Engineer: No sweat mate, well done.
Sergio PEREZ: Why would we do that, man?
Engineer: I don't know, I don't know.
Lewis HAMILTON: Great effort guys, absolutely fantastic job.
Engineer: Nice work Lewis, proper team effort this weekend.
Engineer: Did you just say P5? That's P5, that's P5 Oh,
Pierre GASLY: yes!
Engineer: So that's P2 confirmed from roll lookout. Top job man.
Engineer: Okay, it hasn't changed anything, it hasn't changed anything. You've got P4. We must get them tomorrow. Yeah, we're going to get them.
Sebastian VETTEL: Okay, still struggling with similar issues with the front, quite bad this lap, 8, 9, also 14, but yeah, it
Engineer: was a clean lap.
Engineer: Did you say P5? That's P5. Oh, yes! Ok, so now Franz needs to get me a Ferrari to get back to the hotel. Can you give me a lift, please? Keep charging the battery for tomorrow and stop at Fabric. Good job, guys. You're in shape 5. Reminder for the pit entry.
Engineer: Uh, P6, P6.
Lando NORRIS: Happy enough, I didn't think I could have done a lot more, I thought it was a reasonable lap, but good job, decent position.
Engineer: Yep, nice job, P6.
Fernando ALONSO: Yes, unlucky. This set had a lot more understeer. 10-2 was amazing, so we got unlucky.
Engineer: Copy that. Still a long ways ahead tomorrow.
Engineer: That's P9 in the end, and we can certainly race from there mate.
Engineer: Currently P8 Ok,
Sebastian VETTEL: still struggling with similar issues with the front Quite bad this lap, 8th, 9th, also 14th
Engineer: But
Sebastian VETTEL: yeah, it
Engineer: was a
Sebastian VETTEL: clean lap
Engineer: Alright, that is P8, P8, nice job, very solid qualifying.
Esteban OCON: Awesome job guys, awesome job, that was not easy to understand, but I think we got out of there pretty good, good to do many rounds actually.
Engineer: Yeah, well you pulled it all together at the end, so exactly what we needed, good job, well done.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, good start, good four points tomorrow, that's nice, we'll be back here.
Charles LECLERC: ah
Engineer: P7 that
Charles LECLERC: doesn't change our position no, it doesn't change it's strange what happened anyway, box
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