Portuguese Grand Prix 2021: Practice 3 team radio
27 radio messages were recorded during practice 3 at the Portuguese Grand Prix 2021, across 11 drivers. 26 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Mick SCHUMACHER 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
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 4 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 4 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 3 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 3 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: Tire temps are coming up still lower than we'd like so they're coming up
Engineer: Some feedback also on wind, we see a fairly big tailwind 3 as well, so tailwind 5, 3, 10, 11.
Engineer: Anything big we can help you with?
Mick SCHUMACHER: Not really, I tried to go and see where the limit was, kind
Engineer: of found it, but the cost is good. OK, understood.
Engineer: just take off the kerbs and avoid any debris
Esteban OCON: I have known him from the dash, at the moment just geared
Engineer: Ok understood, we'll have a look at him
Engineer: and just info we lost that last lap due to track limits turn one track limits turn one last lap copy copy mid corner understeer on
Nikita MAZEPIN: that last lap especially the more laps i do the more mid corner understeer there is i believe it's mechanical okay
Engineer: also
Nikita MAZEPIN: struggling with locking and off brakes understood
Engineer: understood we'll have a look at that overall the car is much improved i think
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: On turn 11, we can break 5 meters later. I know, I know, just let me to help. Ok, just trying to help, no worries.
Engineer: Excellent lap, nice work.
Engineer: So that's some bannering that got loose.
Engineer: expect to lose a couple of second with bunching there will be about it
Lance STROLL: but I'll do a cool after this right no no
Engineer: no no your tires aren't even hot enough yet mate well I'm in go-to you have to tell me what to do yeah you're in go-to because that's where I want you to be you're warming the tires up keep in go-to
Pierre GASLY: Ok, just for the race it will be important to let me know if any cars coming because we can't really see anything. Yeah, we'll keep it monitored. Signs pushing in turn 4.
Nikita MAZEPIN: If I start to slide the rear axle, then it's really nothing left on the end of the lap. I'm also struggling with understeer, so going with brake balance forward doesn't always help, man. Okay, copy that, copy that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I don't get why Lucas backs up so much. He had enough space.
Engineer: Anything else we can help you with, Mick? Good improvement there.
Mick SCHUMACHER: Again, it's me trying to find my way through, but I feel good. The car feels alright.
Engineer: Don't stop in the box because Nikita's too close. So just come in slowly, please
Engineer: A
Esteban OCON: little bit less on the steer that lap.
Lewis HAMILTON: I've got so much traffic guys
Max VERSTAPPEN: Ah, no grip on the front axle.
Nicholas LATIFI: Make sure you send me at the pit exit with no traffic into turn one so I could push it, please Every time there's
Engineer: a
Nicholas LATIFI: car coming
Max VERSTAPPEN: Yeah, yeah, it's just last sector all the time. Yeah, I lose everything in the last sector. Just a lot of OVs here.
Sebastian VETTEL: Big vibrations on this set already
Engineer: from the start. Yeah, we can see some of that
Charles LECLERC: They are doing it on purpose. I don't know the explanation. They are far, but they know how much we struggle being behind anyway.
Nikita MAZEPIN: I think these tires are done, man. I spun. Max was there.
Max VERSTAPPEN: They're just keeping me up to date with the cars behind because I can't see anything.
Engineer: Yep, I think Checo is looking to open another time-lapse so you can let him through.
Engineer: Showing spots of rain from the Marshall Post.
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