Monaco Grand Prix 2021: Qualifying team radio
52 radio messages were recorded during qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix 2021, across 19 drivers. Pierre GASLY had the most, with 6.
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 · 6 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 4 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 4 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 2 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Okay, we have a lot of cars behind so the position is very good Focus on tires and brakes Target is zero at the front, zero at the rear. Focus on tires and brakes
George RUSSELL: Tires are not ready
Carlos SAINZ: Can I keep pushing? Next lap?
Engineer: I'll soon hold that behind you. Keep pushing, yeah.
Engineer: So time to gain mid corner turn five late entry turn ten
Engineer: I
Lance STROLL: can't get the Delta negative copy
Engineer: that You're in cool at the moment box and stopping the marks
Engineer: Main limitation, what you need to go faster, rear support or rotation?
Yuki TSUNODA: Little bit of rotation, slow to the corner.
Engineer: Copy.
Nicholas LATIFI: Ah, I'm trapped because of the weighbridge. Car missed the weighbridge. Ok, coming.
Engineer: Think about going up on diff mid from turn four think about going up on diff mid track is clear recharge off when you're ready
Engineer: So a bit more entry speed turn 1 and a bit later braking turn 10 is just against Lance's second lap. He's still clear behind.
Engineer: Okay, next car behind that's a threat is Stroll. He's 12 seconds behind, so we're in a good spot here. There's a big gap ahead of Leclerc, so if he's slow next lap, I don't think we should see anyone else. We're in phase with all the cars in front.
Engineer: Are we planning to go again with the other set? No, we are not planning to go. Next car behind pushing, Mazepin, 10 seconds. Why can't I push again then? I will come back to you. If you want, you can do another push.
Charles LECLERC: Copy.
Engineer: Gamaz, that's the checker, that's the checker. Currently P19, 0.5 off Alonso ahead at the moment. Good job mate, good job. Found time on every lap there, that was really good.
Nikita MAZEPIN: Yeah man, couldn't give it any more unfortunately for now.
Engineer: Still struggled with the in button.
Engineer: OK, so that's us finishing P10, that's us, safe.
Esteban OCON: Copy, good job.
Engineer: And P-16 now you keep, P-16 now we are out. We were 20 milliseconds to P-15.
Engineer: Okay, just stop on the marks and switch off.
Engineer: Okay, go in, go in No one pushing behind obviously, that's 12.3, 12.3, cutoff was a 12.1, 12.1 George just did it, P14, that was Vettel in 12.1, P15, and Tsunoda, 12.1, Alonso 12.2, your P18, 12.3
Nicholas LATIFI: F***er
Engineer: Less weight, less weight. There's loads of cars. Less weight. Yeah, we need to weight a lot. Loads of cars in the pit lane.
Engineer: And keep the pace up for timing and battery in the cool down please, keep the pace up So
Pierre GASLY: much understeer
Engineer: Back to offset minus 2
Pierre GASLY: So much understeer like it doesn't play on the car
Engineer: Yeah we're trying to see why, we're trying to see why Entry 2, entry 2 and we'll fix the flap for the next run
Engineer: Okay ahead of you is Ocon he did a prep lap on both quali runs earlier on it was about seven or eight seconds slower than a push. Well if he wants to do that again he's going to block me and get a penalty so uh yeah you've got loads of space behind you've got five seconds back to Vettel
Daniel RICCIARDO: It's hard because it's definitely not the first, unless we've got a very, very clear outlap.
Engineer: Copy. So we won't have time to do two attempts with build laps. We could either do build push or push-cool-push.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Okay, let's try then just push-cool-push.
Engineer: Copy.
Lance STROLL: Like, it won't, but I'm still going.
Engineer: Ok Kimi, you will need to learn all the gear during the outlap please
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Tell me if there's somebody coming.
Engineer: No, no one is coming. All good.
Engineer: And we're likely to have traffic in our build-up, likely to have traffic in our build-up.
Engineer: so on this slow lap you can be about 30 seconds up on your Delta so you can be 30 seconds slow on your Delta no more than that and that's about very similar to your last cool-down lap so
Sebastian VETTEL: minimal
Engineer: braking will help cool the tires a bit just some charging
Lando NORRIS: I struggle with confidence now.
Engineer: Good job Antonio, we are in Q3
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yes guys, yes
Engineer: Well done mate, we've made good progress through qualifying now. I know it's frustrating not to be through, but you've made good progress.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, understood. Yeah, I am. Okay. Don't have much, much of an answer at the moment. Thanks.
Engineer: It's P13, I'm afraid, Lance, P13. Ah,
Lance STROLL: tough session, man.
Esteban OCON: Timing me through, timing me through
Engineer: We've just missed it That's P11 at the moment, unfortunately it's 800, that's all it was That was so close
Esteban OCON: That's all there was guys, sorry, very
Engineer: sorry Well done Look, it's not perfect, but what an excellent job you've done, well done Should be very pleased with that Yeah, copy, good job guys Let's look at the plus sides, you've beaten a lot of other cars there We're on the good side of the grid, and a free tyre choice in P11 as well So, let's look at the positives, well done
Esteban OCON: Yeah exactly, it's not over
Engineer: Absolutely not, no, it all just started Let's box now please, box now Let's have a watch for the weighbridge lights on the way in
George RUSSELL: Yeah, well done everyone. Good recovery after practice. Still struggling a bit with these tyres, but
Engineer: I
George RUSSELL: think that's
Engineer: the
George RUSSELL: best we could have done today.
Engineer: So the Ferraris are likely to be doing build push as well
Engineer: So plenty of space behind, you've got five ahead. It's going to be a mix of prep laps and time lapse.
Engineer: And we can keep the pace up in the cool down for tires and battery
Engineer: Still happy with three laps for the next run, Max?
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, yeah.
Engineer: Understood.
Lando NORRIS: Ah, he held me up.
Engineer: Yep, I can understand. We'll report it.
Sergio PEREZ: I mean, what the f**k is doing Hamilton?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, I mean, what's Hamilton doing there? Struggle for a lot of front. I think we lost some temperature, no?
Engineer: We can try offset minus three for turn one and then two step forward after turn one. We can take offset minus three for turn one Copy that go back to two, please. We are in minus one now open the gap open the gap more We are good for timings. Some cars are going out
Lando NORRIS: Yeah, that's
Engineer: all
Lando NORRIS: I had guys. I thought it was a decent lap.
Engineer: Yeah, no, it was mate. So Leclerc 12, Hamilton 19.
Engineer: Red flag, red flag, keep the Delta positive. So Leclerc crashed it conveniently, exit of 16. Well done. Fuck,
Valtteri BOTTAS: it was coming.
Engineer: So he's on pole, Verstappen, P2, you're P3. That's ****,
Valtteri BOTTAS: that lap was gonna be a hit.
Engineer: Yeah, unlucky Valtteri, but great job. That
Valtteri BOTTAS: was so really cool.
Engineer: So we will be pretty tight on time so the out lap and the warm-up need to be on the faster side Sergio is fast two behind Sergio Perez two behind fast Okay, so you you you're clear now So we need a faster warm-up lap now faster warm-up lap Go one when you can go one and push now go one push now Do we make it or not negative negative we don't
Engineer: Red flag, red flag, charge on and box, charge on and box, red flag What's happened? Leclerc is exit on 16 in the wall
Pierre GASLY: What's our position?
Engineer: B6
Pierre GASLY: Nice job guys Very nice job
Engineer: Box, box, box, box
Pierre GASLY: Very very nice job
Engineer: Yeah I think we can be happy with that one, we need to stop at the bridge, stop FIA bridge, stop FIA bridge, keep your helmet for the wait please
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I think we can be happy. It's clearly the best we could have done there and My lap was really good. I was improving slightly in the last lap, I think but Yeah, I don't know the gaps.
Engineer: I tell you what, I'm very happy. I'm very happy with that mate. Yeah
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, I think we did well because car wasn't easy but we managed to put
Engineer: Yeah,
Pierre GASLY: the best we could in quality with all set of switches and tires. So thanks
Engineer: guys Yeah, and you kept it clean a lot of good laps in this quality a lot of good laps on the good progression So that's very good. See you in a bit
Pierre GASLY: Thanks
Engineer: F***ing s***
Max VERSTAPPEN: man!
Engineer: This would be a f***ing
Max VERSTAPPEN: lap! F***ing
Engineer: s***! It could be a chassis change, Mike. And you've got Lewis down in P7.
Valtteri BOTTAS: It was coming. That's . That lap was going to be hit.
Engineer: Double yellow, double yellow. I cannot believe it, I cannot believe it. Red flag, stay positive. No, this is unfair.
Carlos SAINZ: I'm sorry guys, but this is unfair.
Engineer: He had a big crash there.
Lewis HAMILTON: Car's damaged
Engineer: Okay, copy
Engineer: OK Lando, we're currently P5, obviously people are setting their times now, so we'll know more once you're out.
Lando NORRIS: No, good job, I think we made the right decision, I'm happy with what we did, so we should be pleased with what we did. Yep, cool,
Engineer: nice job mate.
Engineer: So Max in turn eight now. Red flag, red flag. It's a box, checko box.
Engineer: Yellow ahead, yellow ahead Red flag, follow Delta, boxes left, box, box Copy No rain in the next 10 minutes Pit lane Copy, pit lane
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