Italian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 1 team radio
53 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Italian Grand Prix 2021, across 17 drivers. Yuki TSUNODA had the most, with 7.
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
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 7 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 7 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 6 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Robert KUBICA · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: 5.5 from the ground
Engineer: So, remember to put some temperature on your brakes.
Engineer: and the wind is low, 5 to 10 kph.
Lando NORRIS: The brake pedal feels a little spongy, a bit soft.
Engineer: Ready to charge on.
Yuki TSUNODA: Um, I have to...
Engineer: I
Yuki TSUNODA: have to pay it because the seat belt is loose. My seat belt took it off.
Engineer: Okay, so first laps Hamilton on medium 23.6 Checo medium 24.2 Then Bottas 24.5, UOP4 on a 24.6 and too close to Tsunoda
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, I feel like the front end is quite strong medium to high speed, but I'll check it again
Engineer: Okay, understood
Yuki TSUNODA: Seatbelt is okay.
Engineer: Seatbelt is okay. If it is okay, we stay out, Yuki. Please confirm.
Yuki TSUNODA: Yeah, all good, all good.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: And if we can have HPP 6, position 4. 6, position 4.
Engineer: How's rear locking turn 1 and 4 there?
Esteban OCON: Doesn't feel too much better with the wide.
Engineer: Copy that.
Yuki TSUNODA: I don't
Engineer: have
Yuki TSUNODA: no power. No, I don't
Engineer: know
Yuki TSUNODA: why copy
Engineer: copy now is good.
Yuki TSUNODA: My disco is always
Valtteri BOTTAS: Is the water temperature okay? It's high. High, sir. High, sir.
Engineer: Daniel, we'll box at the end of this lap, we'll box at the end of this lap. I suggest we try a bit more flap for the Push Cool Push laps.
Engineer: Copy that.
Esteban OCON: Turning our bit sharp in Lesmo 1 and Lesmo 2.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: Could be time to find parabolica minimum speed committing more to the initial steer input with brake release
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: I have an issue with the seat on the left side.
Engineer: Copy Antonio, we will check after.
Engineer: Cold and cooler tyres to start with. Yeah, copy that, agreed.
Engineer: Daniel, how does the aero balance feel now for Push Cool Push? Watch for Orkon. Yeah,
Daniel RICCIARDO: struggling a little bit with balance. So a little bit disconnection. And yeah, just traction's quite weak.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: And Lando, how's the balance? Anything we can help with? I
Lando NORRIS: just have a lack of air at the moment. A bit of honesty at turn 1, turn 2 as well. Otherwise, a bit of entry instability everywhere else.
Engineer: OK, understood.
Engineer: Okay, how's the balance?
Esteban OCON: Okay, I think it's
Engineer: a
Esteban OCON: bit pointy on the high speed So probably a bit too much higher balance, I reckon 8, 9 and 11 They're quite Yeah, really limited The ride with the grip better at the end was not the biggest issue Okay, copy that. It got better.
Engineer: Okay, that's good and the
Esteban OCON: The braking is a bit too real for turn 1 especially
Engineer: Okay, copy that Let's box now, please. How is low speed rotation?
Esteban OCON: Turn 1, 2 is not that good
Engineer: Rotation. Watch for Hamilton pushing behind. Let's box now, please
Engineer: So, Sebastian, this lap is going to be hard to get a tow as well.
Sebastian VETTEL: That's okay.
Engineer: Copy.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I had the same problem still in low speed and when I want to go on throttle in turn 2 I just have no rear grip
Yuki TSUNODA: I can't change the engine braking. He sees the engine braking wrong all the time.
Engineer: You can cool down the car, cool down the car, Perez pushing behind, then Bottas 4 behind.
Engineer: So use first gear turn one and two, second gear turn four and five on slow lap.
Engineer: Let's go entry 6, let's go entry 6 for that lap, on charge of that lap. I have understood, perfect game. Ok, copy that.
Engineer: The Delta is set correctly that needs to be negative and closed or can be close to zero but needs to be negative at the end of the lap.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay.
Engineer: Clutch 1% deep, drive out very good.
Nicholas LATIFI: Guys, if we have the time, I want to take out the padding in my lower back, in my seat. I'm not in time without the padding, so I'm
Engineer: going
Nicholas LATIFI: to loosen the belt. Cutting, right, cutting.
Engineer: We'll have time, we'll have time, no worries. Yep, cutting. So, single press HPP, single press HPP, focus on PU cooling and set pushing 4 behind.
Fernando ALONSO: and uh lap
Engineer: time was deleted for track limits turn 11. still a bit of time to gain mid corner turn eight but nine and ten look better and how was the balance after this change
Fernando ALONSO: yeah maybe better you want any switch changes uh
Engineer: can we have pu4 position two pu4 position two
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, just confirmed that none of these guys on those slow laps are staying above the deltas, so
Engineer: You
Lando NORRIS: must be able to cool down a lot more on
Engineer: the
Lando NORRIS: cool lap, comparing to an L lap
Engineer: they don't seem to be penalizing people doing slower slow laps we just need to make sure we're not impeding anybody
Engineer: let's go break five if we can for a couple of break stabs how was the balance? balance felt okay still quite nervous in the ice peak I would say okay copy that so Leclerc six seconds ahead
Engineer: Ok, traffic behind is good, you can slow down a bit if you need to. I'm trying to be in the tow. Copy.
Engineer: Ok Pierre, we are going to push on with the change and we follow the program, we follow the plan So let's wait for the car to be plugged and we have a shot Copy
Pierre GASLY: I have quite big stomach ache, I don't know why but...
Engineer: Yuki DeLapp was good, better turn 8 and turn 11, still something to improve and I will show you in the garage.
Engineer: Losses to Max turn one two and turn four five
Engineer: So Lewis 20.9 is 1 tenth, sector 1 half a tenth, sector 2 and a smidge, sector 3 another half a tenth.
Valtteri BOTTAS: So how can I get more rear support for turn 8? Just go up with it if high speed or...
Engineer: A-Firm, clutch on target, pedal was low, 26 seconds behind the gap.
Engineer: qualifying, can you
Nikita MAZEPIN: please release me closer to car number one, because it's easier for me to tow.
Engineer: Understood.
George RUSSELL: General limitations still very much the same. Obviously need to drive. How much slower do you want me to follow through?
Engineer: Plus 30, 3-0, dropping the rear. What
George RUSSELL: is that equivalent to on the Delta?
Engineer: Minus 5, minus 5 for you to follow.
Engineer: Daniel I'm going to propose we try a higher rear ride height to help through corner balance and a little bit of confidence in the high-speed corners you happy with that?
Engineer: So we have got good tyre temperature.
Engineer: There's the brake temps, tyre temps looking good.
Engineer: Ok,
Lewis HAMILTON: where can it be better? Turn 1 and 2?
Engineer: So yeah, turns 1 and 2. First lap was exit, second lap was entry.
Yuki TSUNODA: I feel similar feeling as a netherland, I feel lost power at the turn 8 Sorry, turn 7, check
Engineer: Copy, we have a look We will fix foq Wally, now we need to cope with that
Engineer: So we have seen people improving on the second push slap on the medium compound.
Engineer: Okay and I imagine the cars ahead might go slower than we will have to on our outlaps because of the lap time delta. This is good practice for how bad it could be in qualifying.
Esteban OCON: I completely blocked me there.
Engineer: Ok, quick feedback to Antonio, 3 tenths braking turn 1, and then ask Harry.
Engineer: Daniel, Lando is going to go ahead of you so we can have a tow this lap. Lando will go ahead to get clear air.
Sergio PEREZ: Do you think we might get another lap?
Engineer: Yeah, let's keep on pushing.
Engineer: Daniel if you want to go again you have to go this lap you have to go again this lap
Engineer: Okay Landon, I'd like to abort now please, so retarge on, careful of gasoline right behind.
Engineer: Lewis, we'd like to do a cruise mode exit last corner, so it'll be cruise mode two, fifth gear.
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