Qatar Grand Prix 2021: Practice 2 team radio
49 radio messages were recorded during practice 2 at the Qatar Grand Prix 2021, across 15 drivers. 47 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. Max VERSTAPPEN 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
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 6 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 5 messages
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 3 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 3 messages
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 3 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 2 messages
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: Okay, we can go.
Engineer: We need a good hard braking where you can in the last sector. We build the Megapod Delta with the small brakes.
Engineer: Tires are looking good, positive on the brakes here
Engineer: So you can call the fronts the rears don't need a massive amount of cooling
Engineer: Do you need the flap adjust?
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, for me it was either the tires or I don't know, but very poor grip to start.
Engineer: Okay, we try again. Single cool down.
Sergio PEREZ: I'm struggling a bit with front end, cannot reach the front one.
Engineer: Do you want to flap adjust?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah, yeah, let's go up
Engineer: Main losses turns 4 and 6, 4 and 6.
George RUSSELL: How was that then?
Engineer: Currently four tenths down to Raikkonen
Engineer: We go for one more push, at the moment all OK on traffic behind.
Engineer: Yeah front right a little bit on the cool side still
Engineer: Your Purple, Sectors 1 and 3, we're half a tenth down to Checo in Sector 2.
Yuki TSUNODA: I have a bit of a mistake.
Engineer: I
Yuki TSUNODA: wanted to change the helmet to a completely clear visor. No.
Engineer: Copy, Yuki, will do. Keep up the pace in the in-lap, please. Keep up the pace. Nobody pushing behind.
Yuki TSUNODA: Should I change the helmet first before you give feedback or first feedback?
Engineer: So helmet is not here yet. Actually it's here, so we change the helmet. Go ahead.
Mick SCHUMACHER: Yeah, it's unclear, I think at high speed it was still quite oversteery, which was limiting me a bit, but yeah, I think it probably would be the understeer because I had trouble with the rotation and the entries and mid corners and then exits were quite difficult on power.
Engineer: Okay, understood.
Engineer: OK, we need to keep the engine speed up please, above 8,000. Can
Lance STROLL: I just use higher gears?
Engineer: Yes, you can.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: OK, Lance, we may have a bit of damage, so it might be loss of front wing, so maybe a bit more understeery this lap, so take a margin. We can go mid-six in anticipation, mid-six to anticipate that.
Engineer: OK, let me know on traffic. Yeah, yeah, so you're currently clear behind 14 seconds. First car pushing is Ricciardo, 14 seconds back. The question is, if we have to do a double call, Sebastian, that's going to eat into our high fuel quite a lot.
Engineer: So Daniel Lando did a 23.6. That time to find is all between turn one and turn six.
Engineer: I really need to get on with the program lacking high fuel
Engineer: Do you want to flap adjust?
Sergio PEREZ: You have felt a bit too aggressive, front end.
Engineer: OK, we can come through the pit lane, drop a bit of flap out.
Charles LECLERC: I can do another cool down
Engineer: Not for timing, we need to do the high fuel, so box is left box
Charles LECLERC: Copy
Engineer: You think you can improve? Otherwise we box.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, I don't know. The terrace for sure is not anymore in good shape. I always hit traffic.
Max VERSTAPPEN: They just keep talking to me because I cannot see what's behind
Engineer: Yeah, you've got Alonso behind on an out lap. I suspect he'll want to get by you
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, check the car again, there's something, there's a statue of a boy on the left side.
Engineer: Copy Antonio, we will check.
Pierre GASLY: Is the wind still the same?
Engineer: Confirmed, confirmed, same as previous run
Engineer: Engine braking 10, engine braking 10.
Engineer: So Pistock will be in second gear, stay in first gear on limiter, make balance for the line
George RUSSELL: Target left hand sorry
Engineer: It's a mid to high 29
Engineer: So we're thinking three time laps on this tyre to get more on the medium, so three full time laps.
Engineer: It's passed through the pit lane for another start.
Pierre GASLY: Yeah, the grip is pretty **** out of the box.
Engineer: and you are shallow by four percent on the clutch and if we can push on entry and exit
Engineer: Mode T4, mode T4, Gasly ahead may have a problem.
Engineer: So not many references, Alonso on the medium low 29s, Ocon on the soft high 28s.
Engineer: So practice more management in 12.13. Practice more management 12.13.
Engineer: Suggest green shape one, green shape one. Vettel and Alpine are doing 29.0.
Engineer: So that was a hard pushing out lap. We're happy to do this next lap pushing reasonably hard like racing and then we need more management 12.13 especially.
Sebastian VETTEL: We'll do five full time laps. We'll
Engineer: get
Sebastian VETTEL: five full time laps.
Engineer: So that was a hard pushing out lap. We're happy to do this next lap pushing reasonably hard like racing and then we need more management 12.13 especially.
Engineer: Leclerc-Norris-Pérez and then there's a gap to Hamilton. The only option we've got Lance is to let three cars through, Leclerc-Norris-Pérez and then there's a gap to Hamilton. Is
Lance STROLL: there a gap behind Leclerc? Is there a gap behind Leclerc?
Engineer: Negative, three seconds to Pérez. So we'll get three timed, we'll have three timed, target 29.1.
Charles LECLERC: They are using the S again.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
Charles LECLERC: What should I do? Keep going like this?
Engineer: Yes, keep pushing like this.
Charles LECLERC: Ok, at one point it
Engineer: will
Charles LECLERC: be useful for me to do left alone.
Engineer: Okay, Hamilton building himself a gap. You've got six seconds behind Tsukimi. Use it up, make use of the last two laps. I'm gonna have strat four please. Strat four, gap Tsukimi. He's at turn 15 apex. Gap is at four seconds.
Lewis HAMILTON: Go behind.
Engineer: And you've got five seconds.
Engineer: You'll take the checkered flag this lap you can push
Engineer: One more timed after this one. Let's just push the tire to its limit.
Engineer: OK, that's checking flag launch, so it will be box, box, box, box.
Engineer: Max, just give yourself a good margin, pass Hamilton if you need to, give yourself a good margin, we'd like to assess the pit lane entry please, so we'd like you to push from turn 15 to the box.
Engineer: OK, now maintain track position, but just give yourself good margin to the car ahead to be able to attack pit lane entry.
Max VERSTAPPEN: No, impossible mate, they're pushing from behind, not pushing in front.
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