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Team radio transcript

Portuguese Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio

22 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Portuguese Grand Prix 2021, across 14 drivers. Daniel RICCIARDO had the most, with 4.

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. Esteban OCONAlpine

    Engineer: All right, so most of the cars are following you out now. Giovinazzi is the car behind, Raikkonen behind him.

  2. Nikita MAZEPINHaas

    Nikita MAZEPIN: I need less engine I need more engine brake

  3. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren

    Engineer: and it's definitely windier now turn three entry 30k tailwind

  4. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren

    Engineer: Both cars having similar problems in the final final two corners. It seems like those corners are much more affected by the wind now

  5. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: The f***ing EBW failed, what the hell, I had no brake pedal, like

    Engineer: a super long one, fail one, fail please Max, fail one, fail.

  6. Lance STROLLAston Martin

    Lance STROLL: The brakes were not working on that last lap with the three, they're cold. Copy

    Engineer: that Lance.

  7. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: I'm still lacking rear grip in the low speed. Yeah,

    Engineer: very clear.

  8. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Sergio PEREZ: What is the base? So,

    Engineer: you're P4 at the moment.

  9. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren

    Engineer: Daniel lap time wise is within 20 milliseconds of Lando compared to him the time to find would be a little bit on exit of turn five and through turn seven so turn five slightly better exit and turn seven a bit more pace through turn seven that he's able to carry into eight

  10. Antonio GIOVINAZZIAlfa Romeo

    Engineer: I

    Antonio GIOVINAZZI: don't know what Stolle is doing.

  11. Fernando ALONSOAlpine

    Fernando ALONSO: Yeah, I don't know what this troll was doing on the last corner. I just start to close to him

  12. Nicholas LATIFIWilliams

    Nicholas LATIFI: OK, I'm in the gravel, but I can bring it back on track, it's fine.

    Engineer: Yeah, could be perfect when you return.

  13. Nikita MAZEPINHaas

    Engineer: and for info we also lost that last lap at turn one on track limits yeah i

    Nikita MAZEPIN: tried it so cool and it didn't work i know but i'm yeah the car is very unstable so i'm just keeping it on track

    Engineer: okay mate we'll look at it don't worry about the pace it will come to us don't worry man

    Nikita MAZEPIN: i'm chilled at this point already

  14. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Engineer: Ok Pierre, so that's currently P11, same lap time as Pérez

    Pierre GASLY: Yeah I know, it was a ****ing lap, like we've got some work so... Yeah I know, we have a lot of work

  15. Valtteri BOTTASMercedes

    Engineer: So Lewis 23.8, remember the first four laps are critical.

  16. Mick SCHUMACHERHaas

    Mick SCHUMACHER: Something weird just happened.

    Engineer: Okay. With what? Which system? The car or the balance or...? Engine, engine. Power out of control. Okay, let's go slow Mick, slow the car.

  17. Lewis HAMILTONMercedes

    Engineer: Ah man,

    Lewis HAMILTON: this is getting a bit... these tyres aren't good.

    Engineer: OK, copy Lewis, won't be long.

  18. Daniel RICCIARDOMcLaren

    Engineer: How is the front wing? How is the front wing? I'd still say on the high side.

  19. Pierre GASLYAlphaTauri

    Pierre GASLY: He's using DRS everywhere, for f***

    Engineer: 's sake!

  20. Carlos SAINZFerrari

    Carlos SAINZ: And peat board check. CMC on peat board again.

    Engineer: Copy.

    Carlos SAINZ: Hey Roberto, stop the coffee.

  21. Sergio PEREZRed Bull

    Engineer: So Hamilton's lap times were high 123s, Max's typically a low 123.

  22. Max VERSTAPPENRed Bull

    Max VERSTAPPEN: Felt like when I pulled the clutch fully the car was moving forward, I had to use the brake.

    Engineer: Copy that, thank you.

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