Russian Grand Prix 2021: Practice 1 team radio
46 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Russian Grand Prix 2021, across 20 drivers. Esteban OCON had the most, with 5.
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
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Mercedes · 5 messages
- Pierre GASLY · AlphaTauri · 4 messages
- Lance STROLL · Aston Martin · 3 messages
- Nicholas LATIFI · Williams · 3 messages
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 3 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · McLaren · 2 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 2 messages
- Kimi RAIKKONEN · Alfa Romeo · 2 messages
- Nikita MAZEPIN · Haas · 2 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 2 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · AlphaTauri · 2 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 1 message
- Fernando ALONSO · Alpine · 1 message
- Sebastian VETTEL · Aston Martin · 1 message
- Mick SCHUMACHER · Haas · 1 message
- Antonio GIOVINAZZI · Alfa Romeo · 1 message
- George RUSSELL · Williams · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Engineer: is 10 seconds to green 10 seconds
Esteban OCON: Yeah, brake pedal is a bit long, as expected.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, that should improve.
Engineer: Just remember that we're doing the start, just beyond the pit lights.
Engineer: Wind is strong, 20 kph, 20 kph, go one, go one.
Engineer: So suggestion, just try to keep this track position, all cars behind us, slow laps.
Engineer: You go cool, go cool, target plus 35, maintain front, drop rear, we want to gather the V-limb, so that's V-limb 2 in turn 3, then V-limb 3 in turn 5.
Nicholas LATIFI: I don't know why the brakes is not really a great bite at pulling
Engineer: Copy
Engineer: We might be able to get a toe off Vettel even, so four seconds ahead at the moment.
Fernando ALONSO: We are low grip, some
Engineer: fun
Fernando ALONSO: logging in turn 13 at the end of braking, I prefer a fast as no fast because a lot of traffic.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that, you're in sync with other cars around you now so that makes sense. First point, we got an issue with lap begin so your reference lap will not be on the dash.
Esteban OCON: So there's quite a lot of bottoming at the moment I feel, the riding is a bit harsh but it's not creating big issues but we have to watch out for that and yeah because of the bottoming
Engineer: Copy that, we've got Leclerc 4 seconds behind 8 second gap behind him, sorry to interrupt you
Engineer: Okay Daniel six is one and three were decent they're tricking up with traffic
Charles LECLERC: Yeah, something strange
Engineer: Copy, we'll come back to you, and box this lap, box, speed confirm
Max VERSTAPPEN: This reach out mode somehow is horrible, when I want to go onto the big lags, it's way worse than normal.
Engineer: Copy that Max, thank you.
Engineer: Enlando, are you happy to proceed with the intended test item, or is there anything bigger we need to worry about?
Lando NORRIS: No, I'm happy doing that.
Engineer: Understood.
Engineer: And you have Verstappen, 8 seconds behind, pushing, yeah, Verstappen, 6 seconds, pushing, 5, 4,
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Hello? Yeah,
Engineer: I can hear you, Verstappen pushing.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: Can you hear me?
Engineer: Yes, I can, box, box.
Engineer: On reminder we will use the push toggle turn 2 turn 4 and turn it off before turn 5
Engineer: Okay, so box and pick and throw max. You'll stop on the marks. We'll change the front wing and straight back onto track
Pierre GASLY: I was just really slow out of the straight, I don't know why What should I do for the brakes?
Engineer: Just
Pierre GASLY: didn't brake
Engineer: We have margin to start minus one On good braking turn 13
Nikita MAZEPIN: Minus 10 on front tires confirmed and
Engineer: the left sensor is broken confirmed. Left sensor is broken confirmed, use the right as your rear reference and yes minus 10 on front. Minus 10 on front, rear is about right.
Engineer: Sector 3 is competitive to lose.
Engineer: Ok, that will be Bottas starting a lap, 5 seconds behind. 3, 2, 1, after Bottas you have a huge gap, 15 seconds.
Esteban OCON: The balance is still quite loose on bumps, I think. I think that's what makes the count stable.
Engineer: OK, copy that.
Carlos SAINZ: Yeah, big step,
Engineer: big
Carlos SAINZ: rip.
Engineer: Copy that.
Charles LECLERC: Rear tires are a bit gone, I'll put them in the box.
Engineer: So Hamilton behind has got DRS on, so whether he is pushing again. Eyes in the mirrors, coming through now. We'll go B-Bell 6, B-Bell 6. How's the balance?
Sergio PEREZ: Yeah,
Engineer: no
Sergio PEREZ: big issues. Some entry stability in 10, but I think there was quite a bit of traffic through there.
Engineer: Virtual safety car, virtual safety car. So delta positive. Okay, losses to Max. He's done a 35.6. Turn 4 mid-corner. Turn 10, as we just touched on. And a little bit turns 13, 14, but yeah, looking strong, looking good.
Engineer: And turn 5, take a bit of care on the entry to 5. That's a lower speed corner, we can prioritise the exit at turn 5.
Lance STROLL: You're giving me too much information, what's
Engineer: the
Lance STROLL: main thing? Copy
Engineer: that,
Lance STROLL: copy that. Let's focus on turn 5.
Engineer: clutch percent was two percent shallow two percent shallow
Engineer: So practice your quali in lab, safe fuel, so max speed 200
Pierre GASLY: At the end of the lap was fully scrappy
Engineer: Yeah, we saw that, we think you ran out of rear tyres We're starting a bit too much on the nose
Engineer: So no bike point find, no bike point find, two burnouts and a first gear launch, more conservative drop, grip is lower than expected.
Esteban OCON: I can also feel some wheel spin on the AstroTurf, I don't know if it's one wheel or not.
Engineer: Copy that, we'll have a look.
Lance STROLL: No, I have a problem engaging first gear.
Engineer: Okay, copy that, copy that.
Max VERSTAPPEN: I back out
Engineer: Okay, we'll box this lap max box call the brakes it's gonna be a practice pit stop and then switch off
Engineer: So just for info, the overlap has crept up in 4, 5 and 7. Turn 4, 5, 7.
Engineer: Okay, if you can, you can try to push braking more into turn two. I'm not sure about the defaults yet. I'll keep you updated.
Yuki TSUNODA: Feeling vibration.
Engineer: Copy.
Engineer: OK Mance, do you think we can push a bit more on the tyre? So for these last two laps let's just try and push a little bit more if we can. Yeah OK, but I think I'm already close to wearing
Nikita MAZEPIN: out. It's not the same like it was a few laps ago.
Engineer: Okay and feedback from the next lap turn 8 and 10 try to brake earlier and focus more on mean to exit speed
Engineer: So Hamilton's third push lap was a 41.1 on the hard. Bottas has been a 40.9, a 40.7 again on the hard. There's been a bit of DRS in there for the Mercs also, so the picture's a bit clouded.
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: Yeah, I don't
Engineer: know
Antonio GIOVINAZZI: the lockup, you know, this tire is completely gone
Engineer: Mode 6, charge off, pit entry test, static pit stop.
Yuki TSUNODA: This car is so nervous
Engineer: so not many references but the pace isn't
Lando NORRIS: I've just crashed. OK.
George RUSSELL: This comment simply fell behind my left shoulder, which is quite uncomfortable.
Engineer: OK, copy that understood, we'll have a look. Let's just go out, please go out.
Lando NORRIS: Don't know what happened, the radio just locked or something.
Engineer: OK, we'll investigate.
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