Monaco Grand Prix 2021: Practice 3 team radio
45 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Monaco Grand Prix 2021, across 18 drivers. 44 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Pierre GASLY had the most, with 8.
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 · 8 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 5 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 4 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 3 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 1 message
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 1 message
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: And radio check, pit exit. Ok. Ok, good for me too.
Engineer: More push, more push.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I'm
Engineer: on
Kimi RAIKKONEN: top, that's the inside ball of the machine.
Engineer: Ok, all good, all good, no damage, nobody behind. Ok, everything looks good, so, mode charge, mode push, sorry.
Engineer: How's the track is it fully dry now? It looks fully dry on TV.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yep. Yeah, it seems good
Engineer: Daniel feedback on turn 10 looks like a good step pressure at the bike looks good keep working on extending phase one to two but what you did looks like a good step okay
Daniel RICCIARDO: just
Engineer: make sure with holding the brake pressure in phase one that you are releasing to turn in bit more brake release to turn in
Engineer: Starting last time lap. I had to
Nikita MAZEPIN: abort.
Engineer: Cover that, Latifi 3 seconds behind. If you want to get a feel on this lap for the balance or if you have a good feel we can box now. Latifi 2 behind pushing. I
Nikita MAZEPIN: can finish if you want.
Engineer: Ok, let's finish the lap, finish the lap.
Nicholas LATIFI: The bottom right box for the quickflip is not working.
Engineer: And to another push, and to another push. Functionality is working. That's just the dash.
Engineer: Daniel you're doing a good job with the braking the only place turn five initial bite you're on the limit with front locking so just take care of initial bite turn five before you get the car straight Tsunoda plus three so
Daniel RICCIARDO: struggling with traction
Pierre GASLY: What what is this like what the is this guy doing? Can you explain me? Yeah, I'm right behind you Yeah, the guy literally I'm coming. Why didn't you let me pass? Unbelievable
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, Checo, clearly impeding Ghastly now, to overtake me. OK,
Engineer: copy. I'm clear from behind.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I was too close to the guy's head.
Engineer: I think it was 4.8 to start the lap, obviously Ocon didn't have a very quick lap, it was a 16, so no we're predicting that.
Pierre GASLY: Honestly, he's
Engineer: a
Pierre GASLY: f***ing idiot.
Engineer: And let's go scenario nine, please scenario nine
Fernando ALONSO: Okay, car is better today
Engineer: Okay understood and how's the balance?
Fernando ALONSO: Poor traction But yeah, I think it's a good direction.
Engineer: Okay understood Okay, let's do one more lap
Engineer: So beep out and recharge off when you're ready. It looks like you'll have to let Tsunoda through now. Maybe also Checo as well. Checo at turn 18 apex. Nice one.
Engineer: So, fast cool, fast cool, just
Lance STROLL: cool surface. Tyres felt much better on that lap. Copy
Engineer: that Lance, they were slightly cooler than the previous lap. Leclerc pushing behind. Yeah, that was a really late call Brad. Yeah, copy that, yeah understood, yeah. Some people are pushing continuously I'm afraid.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yes, so it's still just struggling a bit with the rear
Engineer: Copy. Do you want to try less front wing?
Daniel RICCIARDO: I'm happy happy to try
Engineer: But
Daniel RICCIARDO: I feel it's it's probably more mechanical Like traction and stuff.
Engineer: Okay understood
Engineer: What
Lando NORRIS: the f*** is this guy doing?
Engineer: Okay, next car then will be Stroll. This is dangerous! Yep, we understand, we'll pass the message.
Engineer: Bit of braking turn 18 to Verstappen
Pierre GASLY: Base sectors
Engineer: Okay, so we are currently p9 still and sector is very aligned in all sectors between p7 p8 in all sectors I Think we can do a little bit better with our rear tires for the last two corners
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, you need to help me with the brakes. I can't do anything. It's just overheating. So you need to advise me Brakes are breaking
Max VERSTAPPEN: All right, rear tires are gone.
Engineer: OK, we'll box this lap, Max. Box this lap.
Engineer: A
Pierre GASLY: lot of wheelspin
Engineer: Copy that, let's box now if that's ok with you Let's box through the pitlane if that's ok with you now
Pierre GASLY: I've lost efficiency a lot in turn 5 now, going forward on the offset Copy that
Pierre GASLY: Okay, we need to have a look what to do for 18 because over at the beer, anti-breaking is also... We have a plan.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: OK Esteban, I suggest we box now, box now.
Esteban OCON: Copy.
Engineer: Alright, so a good first run. When you're back in the garage we will have a chat about balance. We will do a practice pit stop at the end of this run but we will not be going out so no launch. No cars behind at the moment.
Engineer: Hey Yuki, we can do one more push, one more push. Do you need more rotation now?
Yuki TSUNODA: No, it's enough.
Engineer: Copy, let's do one more push. Charge off and push. I
Yuki TSUNODA: want to have more support in the rear for fast speed corner. Like turn 3 and fast gain. But also I want to have rotation a little bit more at the slow speed corner.
Engineer: Copy that.
Engineer: It's all clear behind, Sainz should push next to you. Copy,
George RUSSELL: that's not ready.
Engineer: Copy, so Sainz ahead 7 seconds and you've got a 30 second gap behind.
Engineer: Track is clear, you can push.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, no, no confidence to push there.
Engineer: Okay, you can take care about the rear and push in the next.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, first two sectors is too much understood, then last sector where you need to be a group, then your tower is working.
George RUSSELL: Copy, there's no confidence with the tyres, foot will slide them Still rear limited, turn 15 entry, no confidence
Engineer: Daniel, turn 10, you're using everything at the bite, but there's more capacity later in phase one.
Daniel RICCIARDO: OK.
Engineer: Let's have strat two. Strat two.
Engineer: So much understeer. Yeah, we can see that. Do you think we need to make an adjustment on the flap? Or we try with the mapping? We've got some ideas on mapping.
Pierre GASLY: Mapping, we need
Engineer: to do that. OK, so entry 4 on EB2. Entry 4, EB2. We can see it starts quite early and we are very locked at that phase.
Engineer: Let's see if in the wall turn 16, red flag, stay positive, no overtaking, no overtaking, and push the right button, push the right button.
Lando NORRIS: Is the incident ahead of me somewhere or past it?
Engineer: It's in swimming pool two. I think it's the exit of swimming pool two.
Nicholas LATIFI: I crashed, I did. Okay, are you okay mate? Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine.
Engineer: Double yellow 16, double yellow 16
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, box
Engineer: Ok, box now, box
Nikita MAZEPIN: no radio, no radio, radio
Engineer: check Nikita, radio check Nikita, no
Nikita MAZEPIN: radio, okay
Engineer: I'll continue to radio check you, radio check Nikita, radio check Nikita, good good good, copy that, hear you well now too
Sergio PEREZ: I got the Ferraris, they blocked me.
Pierre GASLY: Can you check the steering because it feels strange like it feels light lighter on the right compared to the left
Engineer: Okay, we check
Pierre GASLY: Like something is strange.
Engineer: Is that different from the previous one? Oh, it's been there
Pierre GASLY: Different
Engineer: okay, we check and the tires are very cold the bus leave your tires are very cold
Engineer: Okay, I've lost your GPS, Max, so just keep your eyes on your mirrors.
Sergio PEREZ: I was locking a lot
Engineer: of
Sergio PEREZ: rears in the middle sector
Engineer: and we need to focus exit turn one and don't over push apex turn six
Pierre GASLY: Again, shift last corner.
Mick SCHUMACHER: I don't know what to say, I'm very sorry about that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I'm not sure what tyres are going to get better.
Engineer: Understood, we've got yellows up at turn 4 as well, Schumacher's stopped, double yellows turn 4, he's in the barriers on the exit, so keep to the inside line please Max, around Casino, inside line, right hand side, turn 4, car in the middle of the track, and it's red flag, dash positive, dash positive. Stay well away from the debris. That was perfect, you missed all the debris there, nice job.
George RUSSELL: It says 53%, definitely not down two.
Engineer: It's rear brake temps, the issue, rear brake temps.
George RUSSELL: Yeah, I know, but I landed it with what you just told me to do.
Engineer: OK, so we're boxing this lap.
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